<div dir="auto">Looking forward to the call this morning!</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">For the open forum question, BCD is prepping proposals to ask for dedicated budget line items in various budgets throughout the city and county government and commissions. A common question we are getting is what is normal for OMS programs to receive from their City, County, EDC, and TLT? This is outside of an EID or BID, as we are also exploring that option but it will take longer. <br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Are there other common funding sources that I’m overlooking besides grants, memberships, or merchandising?</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Also, if this information is available through the portal somewhere of if I missed it in an OMS email thread, please forward it to me and we can skip this during the call today.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Thanks!</div><div dir="auto">Ariel</div><div dir="auto"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Ariel M. Reker</div><div>Executive Director</div><div><img src="https://www.google.com/s2/u/2/photos/public/AIbEiAIAAABECNPR8sa77Mub-QEiC3ZjYXJkX3Bob3RvKigzYjM2ZGQ4OTM5ZWJkN2EzNTlmYjIwNjQzMDhjNTU3M2E1NDgyODZhMAHNYSvqoT4yHlqLJqcBBG1xLLU67w" alt="Picture"><br></div>Baker City Downtown<div>P.O. Box 1148</div><div>Baker City, OR 97814</div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 10, 2024 at 11:17 PM Finn Findling <<a href="mailto:Finn.Findling@garibaldi.gov">Finn.Findling@garibaldi.gov</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204)">
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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.
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association / chamber, etc...is there a minimum standards or required contractual components between the two parties that y'all look for?</span></div>
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<a href="https://ci.garibaldi.or.us/2158/Planning-Commission" target="_blank" style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">https://ci.garibaldi.or.us/2158/Planning-Commission</a></div>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Sent:</b> Wednesday, January 10, 2024 10:47 AM<br>
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<b style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Subject:</b> [OMS_MANAGERS] OMS Round-up: New executive director in La Grande, MoM, Grant Opportunities, Interesting Reads</font>
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<li style="margin-top:6pt">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!</li><li style="margin-top:6pt">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/" target="_blank">www.mainstreet.org</a>, and click on the orange portal button.
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<li style="margin-top:6pt"><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" target="_blank">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)</li><li style="margin-top:6pt"><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" target="_blank">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.</li></ol>
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<li><a href="https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/nonprofit-strategy/intended-impact-and-theory-of-change" target="_blank">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!)</li><li><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" target="_blank">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)</li></ol>
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