About Stacy Green

Stacy Green has over 30 years of experience in sales, marketing, and advertising. After moving to Wallowa County, Oregon in 1996, Stacy focused on Main Street businesses and small nonprofits. Stacy helped small business owners increase their profitable sales and remove the stress around marketing by creating simple marketing plans with cost-effective, easy-to-implement strategies. With nonprofits, Stacy has proven results with fundraising, specifically events and individual giving, helping drive income while reducing costs. Stacy created Mentor Match, offering two professional and personal development programs to teens and young adults. Adulting 101: Create a Strategic Plan to Design the Life You Want, is an intensive, all day workshop for 16-24 year olds; The Mentor Match Teen Entrepreneur Program is a year-long program to teach juniors and seniors in high school how to become successful entrepreneurs.

Stacy grew up in suburban California, across the street from a mall, but spent her summers in rural communities. July was spent in Joseph, Oregon, each year with her grandmother, staying at a cattle ranch, riding horses and exploring the rugged Wallowa Valley. During the month of August, Stacy traveled to Colwich, Kansas (pop. 900), to stay with her paternal grandparents, then to visit her seven aunts and uncles and 38 cousins scattered in rural towns around the state. In Kansas, Stacy learned the value of hard work, working in fields, cleaning hog pens, burning trash, canning peaches, cooking for huge families, and attending the 4-H Fair. Through these experiences, Stacy fell in love with the rural way of life.

Stacy earned a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Southern California. She has written numerous articles on small business for Oregon Business and other publications, and authored several reports on Main Street businesses, including Profiles of Success: Interviews with 23 Successful Business Owners, as part of the Wallowa Resources Business Development Project. Green served on the Strategy Council for Wallowa Memorial Hospital, named one of the Top 20 rural hospitals in the nation. Stacy is an active member of Rotary, and has been on the board of Chief Joseph Summer Camp, a week-long educational day camp in Joseph, since 1998, serving as president from 1999-2016. During her tenure the size of camp grew from 65 youth to a max capacity of 144 youth. She and her husband Mark raised their two children in Enterprise, and are thrilled to be living a rural lifestyle. Their decision to move to a small town with two toddlers and no jobs in search of a better life was profiled in Dan Rather’s book, The American Dream: Stories from the Heart of our Nation.