LT-2018-029-EDA-REstaurant Week-Girls Night Out

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Response 3 C: C. What strategies will you use to assist in rrarketing all of Kittitas County as a tourist destination with your Measuring Results* event/proect funding request? Links to the county wade tourism website will be provided on our website with our event information. We will also link to other events happening in the county during the same general time frame as our event. We will also utilize the hashtag #LiveLife In Color in our social media promotion. 2500 character lirrit Application Questions: Part 3 41 Collaboration If your organization collaborates or has created partnerships with other organizations, groups, or other events, how is this accomplished? Collaboration * The EDA works with the Chamber of Commerce, myellensburg.com, and Central Washington Color county wade tourism to cross promote our events. Restaurant Week was made possible by the collaboration with 13 local restaurants and Canyon River Ranch. Girls Night Out came together thanks to the collaboration with our sponsors and the 40 businesses who participated in GNO in the last year. We look forward to collaborating with services that will provide the GNO bus to Yakima and working with musicians. 2501 character lin it 51 Future Plans Please explain what plans exist to allow this project to become self-sustaining. Include any plans for ticket sales, event sponsors, and other cost -recovery models. Future Plans* It should be noted that the goal of these events are not to make money for the organization but to draw visitors to downtown Ellensburg. For example, Girls Night Out bringing $50,000 dollars annually to downtown retail and restaurants is a huge success that doesn't center around the EDA making a profit. The EDA has one of the most diversified budgets of the Washington Main Street communities and we continue to look for ways to become more diverse and self- sustaining. In the past year, we have increased many of our sponsorships by creating packages that allow a sponsor to support multiple events, street furniture, and other EDA projects all with one slightly larger donation. We also exercised our various partnerships throughout the community for in kind donations and logged thousands of volunteer hours. We will be creating sponsorship packages for 2018 that include Restaurant Week, which is already a low cost event. 2500 character lint Application Questions: Part 4 61 Additional Information �> �hl ... . ......... ... Provide any additional information which will assist the Lodging Tax Advisory Committee in evaluating your project and its benefit to tourism.