Quarterly Training – July 21-22. Paragould. Memos went out early last week.
Main Street Arkansas Calendar July 6 - 9, 2010
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MONDAY office closed in honor of July 4
TUESDAY Mark – Hardy
WEDNESDAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
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IN THIS ISSUE:
ACE Accepting Applications for Workshops
Community Development Institute Scholarship Available to First Time Attendee
Documenting Each of America’s 10,466 Main Streets
The Economic Recession & Non-Profits – Lecture at the Clinton School
4 Grant Opportunities
Celebrate Independent Businesses
Responsible Leaders Award
CNN/Livable Cities
Vote for the Historic Preservation Fund
ACE Accepting Applications for Workshops
The Arkansas Coalition for Excellence (ACE) is currently accepting applications from nonprofit organizations for workshops on leadership, grant writing, financial management and other management topics that will begin this fall. Any nonprofit based in Arkansas can apply for the program. The workshops are provided at no cost to qualifying organizations and will be held at multiple locations throughout the state. Deadline for applications is July 19.
For more information, contact Joe Schafer, Education Director & ARRA Grant Coordinator, at jschafer@acenonprofit.org or by phone at 501.993.7932. Request for Applications, can be found Here. More information is also available at the ACE website www.AceNonprofit.org.
Community Development Institute Scholarship Available to First Time Attendee
The Community Development Institute is proud to announce that a Bill Miller Scholarship will be made available to a first-time CDI attendee for the 2010 Institute, scheduled for August 2-6 in Conway, Arkansas.
To download the application, visit http://www.uca.edu/cdi/billmillerapp.php. The deadline for submissions is July 2, 2010.
Documenting Each of America’s 10,466 Main Streets
http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2010/06/documenting_10466plus_main_str.html?wpisrc=newsletter
The Economic Recession & Non-Profits – Lecture at the Clinton School - video
http://www.clintonschoolspeakers.com/lecture/view/economic-recession-and-nonprofits/
EPA Grant Opportunity: Climate Showcase Communities
Application deadline: July 26, 2010
This program provides support for planning, demonstration, and/or implementation projects designed to address climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
http://www.epa.gov/air/grants_funding.html
Grant Opportunity
http://www.changemakers.com/en-us/strongcommunities
Through the Strong Communities: Engaging Citizens, Strengthening Place, Inspiring Change competition, Ashoka's Changemakers andCommunityMatters are inviting individuals and organizations to submit innovative projects and ideas to engage citizens in building strong communities across the United States and Canada.
The Strong Communities competition is open to all types of individuals and organizations (charitable and nonprofit organizations, private companies, and public entities). The competition will consider all entries that reflect the theme of the challenge. To be considered for an award, entries must indicate growth beyond the conceptual stage and have demonstrated social impact and sustainability. While the program supports new ideas at every stage and encourages their entry, the judges are better able to evaluate projects that are beyond the conceptual stage and have demonstrated proof of impact.
CommunityMatters is interested in solutions from a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to)conservation, planning, economics, politics, education, deliberative democracy, and the arts, and especially encourages submission of interdisciplinary approaches. CommunityMatters has a special interest in receiving submissions from young people.
Online competition submissions will be accepted until August 11, 2010
$75 Million Available from USDOT and HUD Launch Groundbreaking, Collaborative Effort to Create Sustainable, Livable Communities
http://portal.hud.gov/portal/page/portal/HUD/press/press_releases_media_advisories/2010/HUDNo.10-131
Chase Community Giving Launches Summer 2010 Online Program
More than $5 million will be shared among two hundred local charities selected by the public via online vote at Facebook....
Posted on June 19, 2010
Deadline: July 12, 2010
Celebrate Your Independent Businesses.
Join the celebration of our nation's locally owned independent businesses during Independents Week, July 1-7, 2010. It's a time to reflect on unique businesses and entrepreneurs and the role they play in shaping the future of our communities! Visit AMIBA's Independents Week web page to view or download free templates for various Independents Week materials or start with this primer (pdf), which summarizes potential activities.
Responsible Leaders Award
http://www.theatlantic.com/sponsored/responsible-leaders/
Teachers, community leaders, small business owners, firefighters, farmers, grassroots leaders, local government members, non-profit organizers, neighbors, you. All around us are everyday heroes who take on big responsibility as a matter of course. Nominate leaders in your community (it can even be you) for the Local Leaders, Big Responsibility Contest. They could be featured on ResponsibilityProject.com and win a donation to a charity of their choice.
Simply click below to submit your nominees and a few words on how they have made your community better. The top three nominees as judged by our panel will be featured on ResponsibilityProject.com, and interviewed on video to broadcast their story.
CNN Livable Cities website & award
http://advertisementfeature.cnn.com/philips/livable_cities/
VOTE FOR THE HPF!
On April 16, President Obama announced the America’s Great Outdoors (AGO) Initiative, a multi-state agency effort to enhance and conserve America’s urban and rural natural resources. The Administration is encouraging public participation to shape the initiative in two ways: Listening sessions in select locations (the first one was this week in Montana) and an online forum where American’s can vote on initiative ideas.
We have posted the suggestion to include permanent and full funding for the Historic Preservation Fund but we need your help! Please take a few moments to go to the online forum and vote for HPF funding. Registering to vote is free and simple:
• Go to http://ideas.usda.gov/ago/ideas.nsf/
• Register in the top right corner
• Search for “Historic Preservation Fund” It may also be found towards the bottom of the right hand column under “What’s Hot”
• Click “Promote” next to Fully Fund the Historic Preservation Fund idea
Support for HPF Funding on the online forum is gaining ground but we definitely need your help!
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