Next Quarterly Meeting will be July 20-22. Details to follow
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MONDAY
TUESDAY Susan and Mark –
WEDNESDAY Susan - Russellville
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
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Main Street Arkansas staff attended a seminar this week about the State Highway Department’s Transportation Enhancement Funds. This is the first year in at least a decade that these funds—totaling $7 million, are available to a wide range of projects, including streetscape and sidewalk improvements, the rehabilitation of historic transportation buildings such as train depots, landscaping projects, and bicycle and pedestrian trails and facilities. The application deadline is August 25,th 2010, and you will find the application at www.ArkansasHighways.com. To view how these funds have been used nationally, please see the National Transportation Enhancement Clearing House web site: http://www.enhancements.org.
There’s a lot we can learn from Detroit
Despite its 30% unemployment rate and blighted neighborhoods, the story of how the city will come back is worth keeping our eyes on. There’s been a lot of press this month on how this city’s fighting back. Latino businesses are filling
NPR’s story, “Latino Businesses Flourish in
If you have members (whether those members fit the legal definition of member or not), chances are you're making at least one of these strategic mistakes identified by Ellis Robinson. With striking clarity she points the way not only to building your membership rolls, but to understanding your membership as your constituency:
http://www.blueavocado.org/content/eight-strategic-mistakes-memberships