[OMS_MANAGERS] Update from Main Street America on their Main Street Resiliency Grants

[STUART Sheri * OPRD]

FYI - forwarding the message below from Main Street America:


Due to the inclement weather and power outages many of our Network is experiencing, we will be extending the deadline for Main Street Resiliency Grant applications. The application is now open until 11:59pm PST on Wednesday, February 24. Please see below for details, and access the online application here<https://nationalmainstreetcenter.submittable.com/submit/185650/main-street-resiliency-grant-program>.
Program Details
The Main Street Resiliency Grant Program will provide ten (10) $8,500 grants to support Main Street organizations' innovative, experimental, creative and/or entrepreneurial approaches to addressing revitalization efforts impacted by COVID-19.

Criteria

  *   Innovation: Proposed idea represents innovative, experimental, creative and/or entrepreneurial approaches to addressing Main Street revitalization efforts impacted by COVID-19.
  *   Feasibility: Proposed idea is feasible given grant amount.
  *   Replicability: Proposed idea is something that could be modeled and/or scaled for other Main Street programs to adopt and implement.
  *   Project must be able to be completed within six months of contract execution.
Eligibility

  *   Applicant must be a 501(c)(3) or 501(c)(6) organization or a government entity.
  *   Applicant must have been designated as an Accredited Main Street America community during the 2020 designation process<https://www.mainstreet.org/mainstreetamerica/theprograms> or a state, county or city Coordinating Program Partner.
Timeline

  *   Application period: January 26 - February 24, 2021
  *   Project award: March 2021
  *   Project implementation period: April 2021 - September 2021

Program Terms and Conditions
Grantee will be required to:

  *   Report periodically to MSA on the implementation of the projects and their local impact. Note: report format and further instructions will be provided after Winning Community selection.
     *   Monthly, Grantee will report program progress status.
     *   For the Final Report, Grantee will report:
        *   Local dollars raised or leveraged as a result of the Main Street Resiliency Grant.
        *   New partnerships created as a result of the Main Street Resiliency Grant.
        *   Other metrics specific to the project type, to be decided upon grant award.
        *   Any replication of their grant-winning ideas in other communities.
Non-performance

  *   Grantees will have until September 30, 2021 to complete work associated with their respective projects.
  *   The Main Street Resiliency Grant will be paid to Grantees up front and in full upon award.
     *   If a Grantee does not complete its project by September 30, 2021, the completion date may be extended at the sole discretion of Main Street America, or Main Street America may request that the Grantee return funds.


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Sheri Stuart (she, her, hers) | Oregon Main Street Coordinator
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Oregon Heritage, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department
Desk: (503)986-0679 cell: (503)551-3705
www.oregonmainstreet.org
725 Summer St NE, Ste C
Salem, Oregon 97301

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