Oregon Rainmakers talks with Jaime Floyd, Co-founder and master brewer for Eugene’s own Ninkasi Brewing company. The Craft brew business is a huge industry in Oregon and the nation and Jaime shares how Ninkasi began and where the company and the industry are headed.

A conversation with Dave Bakke, CEO and president and Joy Pendowski, director of marketing and business development for Chambers Construction. One of the largest commercial construction operations in Eugene/Springfield, we discuss the company, its major projects and the construction industry in general.

We talk with Kendra Jones, the Executive Director of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate for Children). Lane County has one of the highest rates of children in foster care in Oregon, where last year, over 1,100 children spent at least one night in foster care. CASA volunteers advocate for these children in order to achieve better outcomes. We discuss the organization and what business can do to help CASA protect and serve children.

This week on KLCC's Oregon Rainmakers: A conversation with Elliot Rohde, the chairman of Earth Lab Holdings which makes the popular Wise Woman Herbals products. The supplements industry is big business, and we discuss that, his company and how Lane County fits into this global industry.

On this edition, we are talking about one of the biggest challenges in our community: the issue of the un-housed. Our guest is Michelle Hankes, the CEO of ShelterCare. ShelterCare provides a range of housing programs and services to individuals and families who are homeless, or on the verge of homelessness.

On this edition of Oregon Rainmakers, we talk about business communications and PR and the do’s and don’ts of communicating with the public. Our guests are two veteran communication’s professionals in our community, Dana Turell, president of the Turell Group and Pat Walsh, director of communications at Lane Transit and a longtime owner of a PR firm in town.

On this edition of Oregon Rainmakers, we talk with Blake Thompson, the chief innovation officer at Springfield Creamery. Springfield Creamery makes one of the most well-known products to come out of the region – Nancy’s Yogurt. We discuss the company, its history, and some of the challenges and opportunities for a national brand in today’s marketplace.

On this edition of the podcast, we are talking about Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and how this relatively new term is becoming an increasingly critical part of today’s business. Our guest is Erika McCalpine, the Executive Director of Strategic Diversity Initiatives at OSU-Cascades, and the director of its Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Laboratory.