Have you reserved your spot for this year's inaugural Great Lakes Main Street Conference? We are excited to release the agenda for both days, August 19 and 20.
Early bird registration is still available through May 1. The cost is $75 per person. Hurry and register at this reduced rate. After May 1, registration raises to $100 per person. Registration includes attendance to the breakout and keynote sessions, as well as breakfast and refreshments.
A room block has been reserved at the Aloft Hotel in downtown South Bend for $97 a night. Use this link to reserve your room at this price.
Through the generosity of the Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA), registration to the Great Lakes Main Street Conference will be free for those organizations in a community in which IMPA serves. This is a $100 per person value! Please contact Mary Shaw to learn more.
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Nominations are now being accepted for this year's Golden Hoosier Awards. The award recognizes outstanding Indiana residents for their lifetime of service to their communities.
To be eligible for the Golden Hoosier Award, the nominee must currently be:
- An Indiana resident,
- Age 65 or older, and
- Have been a volunteer in the community for the past three years.
Click here to submit a nomination before May 17, 2019.
Do you have an idea for a new Main Street revitalization project idea you would like to start? Are you positive it’s something that will be a slam-dunk success? Then you won’t want to miss Indiana Main Street’s first annual Main Street INspire Idea! competition.
The goal of the Main Street INspire Idea! competition is to stimulate the Indiana Main Street network of communities and professionals to craft imaginative Main Street projects. The submitted projects should:
- Connect to the community’s vision to create vibrant, people-centered places to live, work and invest;
- Support the four key areas Main Street programs have been using as a guiding framework for nearly 40 years: economic vitality, effective promotion, quality design and sustainable organization; and
- Focus on highly visible changes, measuring progress and results that demonstrate the revitalization effort is implemented and succeeding.
Two $5,000 minimum prizes to be distributed at judges’ discretion and all finalist presenters will receive free registration to Great Lakes Main Street Conference.
More information is still to come on how to enter competition. Let the creativity flow and start forming an idea to enter.
We are already in the midst of planning for this year's Downtown Development week, October 7-11. Throughout this week, we challenge all of our partners to celebrate their downtowns by sponsoring events, activities, festivals, parades, business promotions, restaurant deals or a combination of activities to highlight the best of their downtowns. We encourage you to begin planning now.
To help with your planning, details of this year's Downtown Development Grants will be announced soon. If you remember from last year, five activities were selected from 24 applications and each received $1,000. All of the details will be announced on May 6, so be sure to stay tuned.
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