[OMS_MANAGERS] Year End Gift Giving

Tue Nov 10 08:52:27 PST 2015

FYI – check out the article on Year End Gift Giving…there are also some handy checklists, link to a webinar, etc.

From: Donna Ann Harris, Heritage Consulting Inc. [mailto:donna=heritageconsultinginc.com at cmail2.com] On Behalf Of Donna Ann Harris, Heritage Consulting Inc.
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2015 7:01 AM
To: Sheri Stuart
Subject: Main Street Update from Heritage Consulting Inc. Late Fall 2015

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Tuesday 10 11 2015

Welcome to our Late Fall newsletter
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NMSC Webinar on Year-End Gifts
On September 17, 2015, we presented an hour-long webinar<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-h/> for the National Main Street Center titled, “Why Aren’t You Asking for Year End Gifts?<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-k/>”  A recording of the webinar is archived on the NMSC website and is free to listen to for Main Street Center organizational members.  Here is the link to the webinar<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-u/>.
We also included a handy planning calendar<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-o/> , an outline for direct mail letters<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-b/>, and a series of ten compelling facts<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-n/> about why you should be asking for year-end gifts. Click on these links to download these highly useful tools as PDF documents.
We were also interviewed about the webinar by the Downtown Idea Exchange, in their November 2015 issue. Contact us if you want to see this article donna at heritageconsultinginc.com<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-p/>
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NMSC blog post: Get Ready to Ask for Year-End Gifts
As a follow-up to our webinar for the Main Street Center, we wrote a highly useful blog post <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-x/> to augment the extensive material we have already published<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-m/> on the topic of year-end gifts. If your organization has not yet thought about asking your most ardent supporters for additional support during the holidays, take a look at our blog post<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-c/> for the National Main Street Center, published on October 9, 2015. We include a host of good advice as well as a series of fundraising tools listed here, click to see all the documents here.

  1.  Year-End Appeal Facts<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-q/>
  2.  2015 Year-End Fundraising Calendar<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-a/>
  3.  Direct Mail Letter Outline <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-f/>
  4.  Suggested Email Subject Lines<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-z/>
  5.  A Procrastinator's Guide fo Year End Gifts Parts 1 and 2.<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-v/>
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Strategic Plans Galore
We continue to prepare strategic plans for downtown clients as we have for the last five years.  In Philadelphia, the Roxborough Development Corporation<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-e/> completed their strategic plan, Roxborough 2020<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-s/>, in a record time of five months. They also had an exceptional rate of response to their online consumer and stakeholder survey with more than 600 responses within a three-week period. See their final Strategic Plan<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-g/> here. A Main Street New Jersey client Lawrenceville Main Street<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-w/>, near Princeton, NJ, completed their strategic plan <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-yd/>  in early spring. Currently, we are working with the Downtown West Orange Alliance<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-yh/>, another Main Street New Jersey town, to complete their strategic plan for the New Year. If your organization needs a comprehensive assessment and strategic plan for the future, contact us at donna at heritageconsultinginc.com<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-yk/>, 267 251 5444.
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Italian Market Business Improvement District Planning
The thriving commercial district along South 9th Street and Washington Avenue, from where the broader Italian Market area originates, is in the midst of studying the start-up of a Business Improvement District<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-yu/>.  We are serving as an advisor to the South 9th Street Business Association <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jl/> in this effort which is about midway through its planning. A public meeting to discuss the prospective BID plan is scheduled for November 12, 2015 at 5:30PM in St. Maron’s Church Hall, located at 1013 Ellsworth Street, Philadelphia, PA.
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North 5th Street Revitalization Project Capacity Building
Located in the Olney neighborhood, one of Philadelphia’s most linguistically diverse communities is the mile and half long North 5th Street commercial corridor, home to more than 340 businesses. Founded almost ten years ago, the North 5th Street Revitalization Project<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jr/> manages a five-day, weekly cleaning program, a business association, and a contract with the City of Philadelphia’s corridor management program. We are assisting the staff in building their organizational capacity through the creation of a volunteer committee system, work plans and the establishment of an Advisory Board. We have already provided writing for their new website and other systems in preparation for the growth of their organization and fundraising base as they expand their revitalization efforts.
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Talking “Trash” at the Main Street Conference
We are excited about the opportunity to speak at the upcoming National Main Street Center conference in Milwaukee <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jy/> next year. Our speaking proposal called Taking Trash: 25 Strategies to Make It Disappear was accepted as a crash course. Alex Balloon, the Tacony CDC manager (and former HCI intern) will join us in this presentation as we provide strategies for addressing “the casual littering, overflowing dumpsters, short dumping in vacant lots, unswept sidewalks, and household trash in public waste baskets, that make up the wretched refuse of downtown work.”  If you will be in Milwaukee for the conference in May, drop by and say hi!
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New interns
Each summer we hire several graduate school interns to help us with client work. The goal of the internship is to expose students to historic preservation and community revitalization projects by undertaking real work for clients with our guidance and supervision. This year we welcome Audrey von Ahrens<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jj/>, Jennifer Carr Robinson <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jt/> and Eryn Boyce <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-ji/> to our practice. View their LinkedIn profiles by clicking on their names.
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Recent speaking engagements
Each year we speak at a dozen or more state preservation and Main Street conferences. Here is a recent list from spring, summer and early fall.
·        Destination Downtown Conference, Arkansas Main Street, Little Rock, AK: “Better Recruitment=Better Boards” and “Diversify Your Revenue Sources!”
·        Illinois Main Street Conference, Carbondale, IL:  “Assessing the Heritage Tourism Potential of Your Town,” “A Main Street Fundraising Event Catalogue,” and “Curating an Authentic Downtown Experience” (with Anthony Rubano of the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency).
·        Illinois Main Street, Waukegan and Monticello, IL: “Understanding the 3 R’s: Volunteer Recruitment, Retention and Recognition,” and “Alternatives to Committees: Task Forces, Interns, Work Study and College Classes.”
·        Pennsylvania Downtown Center Conference, Lancaster PA: “Keeping Suburban Retail Districts Relevant” (with Karen Cilurso of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Association)
·        National Main Street Center Conference, Atlanta GA: “Catalyzing Change: What really works in urban commercial corridors?” (with Joane Celestin, Terrine Datts and Philip Green) and “Best Practices for Revitalizing Older Suburban Retail Districts” (with Karen Cilurso of the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Association)
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DID YOU KNOW? Resources on our website
We have literally more than 150 resources for Main Street and downtown organization staff on our website<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jd/>, from blog posts<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jh/>, our latest Main Street Now articles, <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-jk/> helpful PowerPoint presentations <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-ju/> and sample documents <http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-tl/> on all aspects of the Main Street Four Point Approach. We list all 55 presentations<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-tr/> we have on file on downtown topics. Take a look at our resources files<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-ty/> and archive<http://email.tactiledesigngroup.com/t/r-l-ziyirtt-duurpihi-tj/> for yourself and then contact us to learn how we can help your organization thrive! Email: donna at heritageconsultinginc.com<mailto:donna at heritageconsultinginc.com>, or 267 251 5444.
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In this issue
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Welcome to our Late Fall newsletter

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NMSC Webinar on Year-End Gifts

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NMSC blog post: Get Ready to Ask for Year-End Gifts

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Strategic Plans Galore

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Italian Market Business Improvement District Planning

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North 5th Street Revitalization Project Capacity Building

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Talking “Trash” at the Main Street Conference

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New interns

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Recent speaking engagements

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DID YOU KNOW? Resources on our website

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