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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">For Performing Main Street Level Communities</span></b><b>: The Grills Fund for Main Street Revitalization.</b> 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. <span style="color:dimgray"><a href="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="><span style="color:#0563C1">Learn
more and apply here!</span></a><br>
<br>
</span><b><span style="background:yellow;mso-highlight:yellow">New Survey</span>:
<span style="color:dimgray"><a href="https://us13.admin.mailchimp.com/campaigns/show?id=1438112"><span style="color:#0563C1">The Impact of COVID-19 on Main Street Programs.</span></a></span></b><span style="color:dimgray">
</span>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.
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2CBH5Q8">Take Survey</a> 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.<span style="color:dimgray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:dimgray"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Main Street & COVID19 webinars by National Main Street Center</b>. The next webinar in this series will be
<span style="color:dimgray"><a href="https://register.gotowebinar.com/register/8813328273062505741" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">UrbanMain & the COVID-19 Response</span></a>. </span>The COVID-19 pandemic has hit urban areas hardest, with research
emerging on the disparate impacts on communities of color. Join this <span style="color:dimgray">
<a href="https://www.urbanmain.org/home" target="_blank"><span style="color:#0563C1">UrbanMain
</span></a></span>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: <span style="color:dimgray"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Leading Through Crisis (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw5tROTbAkY"><span style="color:#0563C1">recording</span></a> |
<a href="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">
<span style="color:#0563C1">slides</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Main Street Organizational Health Check-up (<a href="https://youtu.be/h5I_xVmXY_Q"><span style="color:#0563C1">recording</span></a> |
<a href="https://higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/NMSC/390e0055-2395-4d3b-af60-81b53974430d/UploadedImages/Resource_Center/COVID_19/org_checkup_webinar.pdf">
<span style="color:#0563C1">slides</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Supporting Local Safely (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62mwrNIL2I"><span style="color:#0563C1">recording</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">Investing on Main Street (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJXQ_7j0M90&feature=youtu.be"><span style="color:#0563C1">recording</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NMSC Community Response Roundups.</b> 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
<a href="https://www.mainstreet.org/howwecanhelp/resourcecenter/covid19resources#PeerExchange">
<span style="color:#0563C1">interactive map</span></a>. If you’ve seen a unique response or resource, feel free to let us know either via email or via
<a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/SN9YNNM"><span style="color:#0563C1">this survey</span></a>.
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/04/03/covid-19-community-response-roundup-quilters-creat"><span style="color:#0563C1">Quilters Creating for Caretakers & Dinosaurs
on Main Street</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="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="><span style="color:#0563C1">Marquee
Messages & Letter Board Support</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="https://www.mainstreet.org/blogs/national-main-street-center/2020/03/30/covid-19-community-response-roundup-caring-for-car"><span style="color:#0563C1">Caring for Caretakers & Teddy Bear Hunts</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="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="><span style="color:#0563C1">Light
Up the Night & Virtual Dance Parties</span></a> <o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="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="><span style="color:#0563C1">Sidewalk
Chalk & Literature Drops</span></a><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2"><a href="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="><span style="color:#0563C1">Delivery
Shuttles & Virtual Happy Hours</span></a><o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q55XJR6"><span style="color:#0563C1">Main Street Kudos Campaign</span></a>.</b> 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 <a href="https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Q55XJR6">
<span style="color:#0563C1">this survey</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>NMSC COVID-19 Main Street Resources webpage.</b> Be sure to check out our
<a href="https://www.mainstreet.org/howwecanhelp/resourcecenter/covid19resources" target="_blank">
<span style="color:#0563C1">COVID-19 Main Street Resources</span></a> webpage for additional tools and opportunities to support your program. We are constantly updating this webpage with resources to help you weather this storm.<o:p></o:p></p>
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