Monday, April 12, 2010

Main Street Arkansas Update - April 12, 2010

Don’t forget the Arkansas Preservation Conference in Helena this Thursday – Friday. Our Quarterly Meeting begins with a social media workshop by Halo Business Advisors at the DCC Depot. 95 Missouri Street. The full schedule is at www.preservearkansas.org

Senator Blanche Lincoln is the speaker at the Preservation Breakfast Saturday morning.

Main Street Arkansas Calendar April 12 -16, 2010
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MONDAY Greg, Nancy, Mark - Paragould 4-Point training
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY all staff – AR Preservation Conference, Helena
FRIDAY all staff – AR Preservation Conference, Helena
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Chamber’s Paid to Recruit Businesses, but Do They Deliver?
Greening Historic Buildings
Are Old Houses Doomed?
Old Houses in a Sutainable World
History & Arts in Today’s World
Downtown Searcy Mural
Eight Strategic Mistakes with Membership
Centralized City Planning Not the Answer
Grant Opportunity


Chamber’s Paid to Recruit Business, but Do They Deliver?
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2010/apr/04/chambers-are-paid-recruit-business-do-the-20100404/
- subscriber only, sorry.

Greening Historic Buildings
http://www.governing.com/article/greening-historic-buildings

Are Old Houses Doomed?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=are-old-houses-doomed-the-conflict-2010-03-26

Response to this from the NTHP –
Old Houses in a Sustainable World
http://blogs.nationaltrust.org/preservationnation/?p=9315

History & Arts in Today’s World
http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/220942

Downtown Searcy Mural News
http://arkansasmatters.com/content/news/fulltext/?cid=303331

Eight Strategic Mistakes with Memberships
http://www.blueavocado.org/node/508

Centralized City Planning is Not the Answer
http://www.slate.com/id/2249253/
“The forces shaping our cities today are not municipal agencies but private organizations such as park conservancies, downtown associations, historic-preservation societies, arts councils. . . “

NEH Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions
The National Endowment for the Humanities has a Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program to help libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and county records offices, and colleges and universities improve preservation and care for their collections. Awards of up to $6,000 support collection assessments, consultation, training, and disaster and emergency planning. The application deadline is May 18. Guidelines for the program are available at www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pag.html. Nonprofit organizations, state and local government agencies, and tribal governments are eligible for the grants. More information is available by phone at 202-606-8570 or email at preservation at neh.gov.