[OMS_MANAGERS] OMS Daily Round-up

Fri Apr 10 14:08:33 PDT 2020

For Performing Main Street Level Communities: The Grills Fund for Main Street Revitalization. This new grant fund will provide five (5) Accredited Main Street America Programs $10,000 each to help fund innovative revitalization efforts to address the current and/or legacy impacts of COVID-19. The recipients will not only actively position their communities and programs for success, but will offer model programs, activities, and solutions for Main Streets across the country. Learn more and apply here!<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/04/08/announcing-the-grills-fund-for-main-street-revital?CommunityKey=c40a84d1-46b2-465c-985c-c08ed69081ab&tab=>

New Survey: The Impact of COVID-19 on Main Street Programs.<https://us13.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/show?id=1438112> Help the National Main Street Center help your local programs! They are interested in hearing from Main Street program directors as they cope with challenges to their organizations and their communities. Take Survey<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2CBH5Q8> to let the National Main Street Center know what you're going through, how you're coping with this crisis, and what resources would be most helpful to you right now.

Main Street & COVID19 webinars by National Main Street Center. The next webinar in this series will be UrbanMain & the COVID-19 Response<https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8813328273062505741>. The COVID-19 pandemic has hit urban areas hardest, with research emerging on the disparate impacts on communities of color. Join this UrbanMain <https://www.urbanmain.org/home> webinar to hear how neighborhood commercial district managers are quickly responding with local policy initiatives, small business e-commerce tools, and grants to meet the needs of their communities. Did you miss the previous webinars in this series? Check out the recordings:

  1.  Leading Through Crisis (recording<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5tROTbAkY> | slides<https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NMSC/390e0055-2395-4d3b-af60-81b53974430d/UploadedImages/Resource_Center/COVID_19/COVID19_and_MAIN_STREET_-_Leading_through_Crisis_Webinar__April_7__2020-FINAL.pdf>)
  2.  Main Street Organizational Health Check-up (recording<https://youtu.be/h5I_xVmXY_Q> | slides<https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NMSC/390e0055-2395-4d3b-af60-81b53974430d/UploadedImages/Resource_Center/COVID_19/org_checkup_webinar.pdf>)
  3.  Supporting Local Safely (recording<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62mwrNIL2I>)
  4.  Investing on Main Street (recording<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXQ_7j0M90&feature=youtu.be>)
NMSC Community Response Roundups. The COVID-19 Community Response blog series features ideas and approaches that local Main Street America programs are taking in response to the pandemic. We will be posting these roundups frequently throughout the duration of the crisis. Please view the archive of roundups below, or view them on our interactive map<https://www.mainstreet.org/howwecanhelp/resourcecenter/covid19resources#PeerExchange>. If you've seen a unique response or resource, feel free to let us know either via email or via this survey<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SN9YNNM>.

  *   Quilters Creating for Caretakers & Dinosaurs on Main Street<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/04/03/covid-19-community-response-roundup-quilters-creat>
  *   Marquee Messages & Letter Board Support<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/04/01/covid-19-community-response-roundup-marquee-messag?CommunityKey=c40a84d1-46b2-465c-985c-c08ed69081ab&tab=>
  *   Caring for Caretakers & Teddy Bear Hunts<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/03/30/covid-19-community-response-roundup-caring-for-car>
  *   Light Up the Night & Virtual Dance Parties<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/03/26/covid-19-community-response-roundup-light-up-the-n?CommunityKey=c40a84d1-46b2-465c-985c-c08ed69081ab&tab=>
  *   Sidewalk Chalk & Literature Drops<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/03/23/covid-19-community-response-roundup-sidewalk-chalk?CommunityKey=c40a84d1-46b2-465c-985c-c08ed69081ab&tab=>
  *   Delivery Shuttles & Virtual Happy Hours<https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/03/20/covid-19-community-response-roundup-delivery-shutt?CommunityKey=c40a84d1-46b2-465c-985c-c08ed69081ab&tab=>

Main Street Kudos Campaign<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q55XJR6>. NMSC is asking communities to share with them people who have brought joy and support to Main Streets programs during the pandemic and deserve a kudos. Volunteers, staff, neighbors, etc. who are pulling long nights, converting their businesses to make hand sanitizer and other PPEs, providing free meals to first-responders, and everyone in between. Feel free to add a kudos for person or initiative you know about by using this survey<https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q55XJR6>.

NMSC COVID-19 Main Street Resources webpage. Be sure to check out our COVID-19 Main Street Resources<https://www.mainstreet.org/howwecanhelp/resourcecenter/covid19resources> webpage for additional tools and opportunities to support your program. We are constantly updating this webpage with resources to help you weather this storm.

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