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<li style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Happy to announce that Sarah Marcotte is the new executive director with La Grande Main Street Downtown. Sarah has been a small business owner and brings a wealth of experience in video production and marketing
to her new position. Please join me in welcoming her to our Main Street family!<o:p></o:p></li><li style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Reminder: we do have a Mornings on Main call this week. It is an open forum – let me know if you have any questions you want to bring before the group. The link is on the calendar on our website,
<a href="http://www.mainstreet.org/">www.mainstreet.org</a>, and click on the orange portal button.
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<li style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><a href="https://www.aarp.org/livable-communities/community-challenge/info-2024/2024-challenge.html?CMP=EMC-DSM-NLC-OTH-LC-1771001-195203-7924574-NA-01102024-LivableCommunities-F1-2024challenge-BTN-ALL-Community-&encparam=WEQXZk0Q6CjtGSDxs%2b2usfap5v2wUjUKHSZK3wnY%2fZQ%3d">2024
AARP Community Challenge Grant</a> - Grant funding is available for local governments and nonprofits that are eager and ready to work on a community-improving project that can be started and completed before year’s end. Application Deadline: March 6, 2024,
2 p.m. (PT)<o:p></o:p></li><li style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><a href="https://nationalmainstreetcenter.submittable.com/submit/08ca0e87-c995-4376-81d6-127c140a554a/t-mobile-hometown-grant-application-q1-2024-january-3-2024-march-31-2024?mc_cid=04fd342892&mc_eid=b22a72ae8a">T-Mobile
Hometown Grant</a> - The new application period for the T-Mobile Hometown Grant program is open now through Sunday, March 31 at 11:59 p.m. CT. Brought to you in partnership with Main Street America and Smart Growth America, the T-Mobile Hometown Grant program
provides grants of up to $50,000 to help build stronger, more prosperous small towns and rural communities with population under 50,000.<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
<li style="margin-top:6.0pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">Interesting Reads:<o:p></o:p></li><ol start="1" type="a">
<li style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><a href="https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/nonprofit-strategy/intended-impact-and-theory-of-change">What Are Intended Impact and Theory of Change and How Can Nonprofits Use Them?</a> - Strategy is all about getting critical
resource decisions right. But developing a clear, effective strategy can be a long process full of difficult tradeoffs. One way to smooth the path is to clarify your nonprofit’s intended impact and theory of change. These powerful concepts can help your organization
refine the goals it commits to achieve and map the road for how to accomplish them. (Thanks to Kirsten Agard, president of BDA, for sharing!)<o:p></o:p></li><li style="mso-list:l1 level2 lfo2"><a href="https://www.bridgespan.org/getmedia/91fad2d0-ede3-4712-acb9-3633e1af410c/Stakeholder-Engagement-Toolkit.pdf?utm_source=leadersmatter&utm_campaign=stakeholder-engagement-toolkit&utm_medium=email">Engaging Stakeholders
in Strategic Planning</a> – this is a really cool tool kit to help think through your community engagement strategy (Thanks to Cam for sharing)<o:p></o:p></li></ol>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4F6228">Sheri Stuart
</span></b><b><span style="font-size:8.0pt;color:#4F6228">(she, her, hers) </span>
</b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">| Oregon Main Street Coordinator</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#4F6228"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Oregon Heritage, Oregon Parks and Recreation Department<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Desk: (503)986-0679 cell: (503)551-3705<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">725 Summer St NE, Ste C<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Salem, Oregon 97301<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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