Historic Downtown El Dorado
Reminder – Quarterly Training February 21-23, Little Rock (detailed agenda to follow)
Welcome to the new Siloam Springs executive director, Meredith Bergstrom. Send her a welcome note at: Meredith.mainstreetsiloam at gmail.com
Main Street Arkansas Calendar January 10 -14, 2011
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MONDAY office closed due to weather
TUESDAY
WEDNESDAY Cary – LR (Community Development Society)
THURSDAY Cary – McGhee (Rohwer/Jerome public meeting)
FRIDAY
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IN THIS ISSUE:
Main Street Batesville Press
Giving Tree Grants
The Networked Nonprofit
America’s Most Romantic Main Streets
AHPP Accepting Grant Applications
Main Street Batesville Press http://batesville.todaysthv.com/content/recipe-revival Giving Tree Grants via the Arkansas Community Foundation Giving Tree grants are here! Twenty-three of our local offices are accepting grant proposals now through February 15. Watch this 5 minute tutorial on how to apply online, and visit our website, arcf.org, to learn more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxGu_Ka8fdA "The Networked Nonprofit," author Allison Fine – at the Clinton School for Public Service
Thursday, January 27, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. (Sturgis Hall) *Book signing to follow
- Fine will discuss her book "The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting with Social Media to Drive Change," a straightforward guide for any nonprofit reviewing its social media strategy.
- I know many of you can’t attend this, but remember this will be archived on
http://www.clintonschoolspeakers.com a few days after the event.
America’s Most Romantic Main Streets’ – from the National Trust
You’ve seen the top 10 places to live, the best places to retire, the top dog-friendly cities… but with Valentine’s Day, we want to share the most romantic Main Streets for a national media campaign.
We’ll be collecting your entries through our new My Main Street photo submission page now through Feb. 2 – so grab a camera and take some photos that capture why your Main Street should be on this list. Go online to
http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/main-street-now/my-main-street-submissions.htmlto find out how to upload your photos. Use the caption area to submit your 5 reasons why your Main Street is the most romantic. (Not every photo has to correspond with the 5 reasons.) We’ll be working with our communications office to build some buzz over our list, which we hope will capture some national media attention next month. Contact me with questions about this.
So what is this My Main Street thing? Many of you have already used it. It is our photo submission system. Since we first told you about it several weeks ago, we have already received 500 photos. We put 25 of our favorites in our first slideshow that you can see on the link I posted above. The slideshow will change frequently, with the next one featuring some of the most romantic Main Street photos. You’ll also find these photos on the back cover of every Main Street Now journal, and I am sure they will pop up on our website and in our other publications and presentations. You can submit photos any time during the year and we’ll be using them constantly. The only deadlines are when we use the system for contests like the one announced above.
AHPP ACCEPTING APPLICATIONS FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION GRANTS The Arkansas Historic Preservation Program, an agency of the Department of Arkansas Heritage, will accept applications for its Historic Preservation Restoration Grant and County Courthouse Restoration Subgrant programs through March 11, AHPP Director Frances McSwain announced today.
Two Historic Preservation Restoration Grant options are available for rehabilitation of historic structures in Arkansas:
• Option 1 grants of up to $10,000 are available to the owners of properties that are listed on the Arkansas Register of Historic Places or are non-contributing structures in National Register historic districts if the grant project will make the property eligible for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and the owner follows through with the National Register listing process
• Option 2 grants of $10,000 or more are available to the owners of properties that are listed on the National Register of Historic Places and owned by a not-for-profit organization or a local government.
Guidelines and applications for the Historic Preservation Restoration Grant and County Courthouse Restoration Subgrant programs can be downloaded from the AHPP web site at
http://www.arkansaspreservation.org/preservation-services/grant-programs/; guidelines also can be acquired by writing AHPP Grants, 1500 Tower Building, 323 Center St., Little Rock, AR 72201. Requests also can be sent to the agency via fax at (501) 324-9184 or via e-mail at joia at arkansasheritage.org. All applications must be delivered to the AHPP office by 4:30 p.m. on Friday, March 11, 2011; faxed or e-mailed applications will not be accepted.
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