A small committee made up of Lebanon and Sweet Home members pulled together their first annual Willamette Valley Nonprofit Summit, held in Lebanon on Feb. 19.
Ben Mattheisen said he came up with the idea late last year that the area needed something focused solely on “helping nonprofits be amazing, be the best they can be.”
Mattheisen, past chair of the Sweet Home Singing Christmas Tree, noted there are very few organizations nearby whose sole…