If you are not already an investor-member of Valley Vision, it’s not too late to join with the many businesses and local government entities who have come together to influence our future. The commitments are for five years, and you set the amount.

If you would like to join the effort, please fill-out the pledge card below and we will contact you to confirm.

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Faced with the question of whether we should work together to attain a preferred future, the answer is clear. Doing nothing and dealing with whatever happens is not an acceptable alternative.

The Lewiston-Clarkston Valley is engaged in a fierce competition with other communities throughout the U.S. for the same investment and jobs. Like us, they have organized to compete. There are an estimated 30,000 economic development organizations nationwide, most of which have been operating much longer than Valley Vision.

The Lewis-Clark Valley is relatively new to the competition. Our five year-old, public-private partnership has competed for projects with communities in Texas, Arizona, Wyoming, Oregon, California, and even in our own Idaho and Washington, to name just a few.

The competition has made us acutely aware of our strengths and weaknesses. We have learned through the due diligence processes of some 30 companies, however, that we can muster the expertise and teamwork required to shore up our weaknesses and win major projects. The economic development business produces more losses than wins, but the wins can be mighty in the context of the opening question: Where would we be if we had done nothing?

Part of the beauty of this work is that the results of efforts put forth to keep us competitive for outside investment also improve the competitiveness of companies already located here - infrastructure development, telecommunications upgrades and reduced costs, workforce training resource enhancements, regional marketing, business technology park development...

Every success contributes to economic growth and enhances the Valley's quality of life: More job opportunities, particularly for young adults; higher household incomes; a growing tax base to fund improvements in education, police and fire protection, and streets; and more amenities for citizens and visitors alike.

If you don't receive financial benefit on the front end of one of our projects, you receive that and much more from the impacts.