Our mission is to secure and deliver resources required by partner organizations and communities to improve physical infrastructure and organizational capacity for economic development and jobs.  

Our customers and economic development partners include:

• economic development councils (EDCs)
• local governments
• tribal governments
• ports
• downtown development associations
• community-based development organizations

Our programs

CEAC assists local efforts by providing both financial and technical assistance through a number of programs: 

• Community Economic Revitalization Board - CERB
• Job Development Fund
• Local Infrastructure Financing Tool (LIFT)
• State Community Empowerment Zone Program - CEZ
• Washington State Downtown Revitalization Program - DRP
• Columbia River Gorge Economic Development Program
• Washington Development Network Grants - WDN
• Old Growth Diversification Fund - OGDF

For more information
Contact Dara Fredericksen, Director
Community Economic Assistance
360-725-4053