• In March, we launched a new Covid-19 Business Resources website page, providing up-to-date information and tools to government officials, business leaders, and concerned community members in need of the latest data related to business operations, business resources, and the ongoing public health crisis. In conjunction with the Vail Daily, we launched the Open for Business program to ensure the public has your most up to date business information.

• We have worked directly with our elected officials at the federal, state, and local level on the front lines of the Covid-19 response and recovery, providing data, technical support and a platform to share the impacts to our business community. Two business impact surveys were developed and shared, we represent Eagle County business interests on the Governor’s Tourism Industry Recovery Task Force.

• We helped form the Save Small Business Coalition, and continue to advocate for federal relief through endorsement of the CARES Act, Heroes Act, Small Business Comeback Act and the Restart Act. Business support such as the PPP, EIDL, and others came through these federal relief programs.

• And we have continued to fight to maintain and encourage as much economic activity as possible within constraints of public health and business process disruption. For example, we worked closely with the Town of Gypsum and other community stakeholders to launch the Welcome Home Neighbor program to help encourage our non-resident homeowners to spend the summer (or longer) in Eagle County.

And that’s just part of the story.

• Through it all, we have not lost focus on the key business challenges that exist in Eagle County. While COVID recovery is currently our top priority, we remain focused on housing, healthcare, transportation, early childhood care, and other community issues. We are dedicated to developing the Mountain Healthcare Coalition and One Valley Healthcare programs to address health insurance cost and accessibility. We remain focused on the need for workforce housing and on supporting workforce development efforts.

• The efforts and programs implemented by the Partnership are being noticed nationwide; we are proud of the VVP team for being recognized as winner for “Chamber of the Year” by the Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives.

Our 2020 Annual Report report gives you a deep-dive into how the Partnership is fighting on multiple fronts simultaneously, making progress, and providing our business community with the tools, resources, and information needed to survive the COVID-related uncertainty and thrive on the other side into the future.