Virginia Main Street Training Archive

Virginia Main Street Training Archive
Use the list below to download presentation notes from Virginia Main Street trainings:

2011 Essentials: Design and Economic Restructuring for historic downtowns

• 2011 Essentials Agenda >> URL
• Design Essentials: 10 things you need to know about design >> PDF
  1. The Elements >> PDF
  2. The History >> PDF
  3. The Uses of Your Downtown Today >> PDF
  4. The Players >> PDF
  5. The Issues >> PDF
  6. Design Principles for Downtown >> PDF
  7. Solutions for Buildings >> PDF
  8. Solutions for the Public Realm >> PDF
  9. Tools for Success >> PDF
  10. The Design Process >> PDF
• Design Essentials: Sample plan >> PDF
• Design Essentials Session Notes >> PDF
• Financing Rehabilitation of Large Structures >> PDF
• Economic Restructuring Essentials: 50 things your Economic Restructuring committee can do >> PDF
• Resources for 50 Things >> PDF

2011 Summer Toolkit: Sustainable Main Street (* large file, please be patient while downloading)

• 2011 Summer Toolkit Agenda >> PDF
• 2011 Summer Toolkit Speaker Biographies >> PDF
• Main Street Green: How sustainability relates to Main Street and how to get started >> PDF*
• Additional Main Street Green Resources >> PDF
• Virginia Municipal League’s Green Government Challenge >> PDF
• Build It Green Panel: Sustainable strategies for the built environment in three Virginia communities >> PDF*
• Historic Preservation Resources: Tools for economic development and community sustainability >> PDF
• Virginia Tourism Corporation’s Virginia Green Program >> PDF*
• TEAM Eventacular: Towns, events and merchants partnering for success >> PDF*
• Economic Gardening: Funding, inspiring and cultivating the entrepreneurs who revitalize our communities >> PDF
• Growing the Main Street Community: Five inspiring downtown projects and the people who support them >> PDF*
• Working in Teams and Collaborations: Partnering for success >> PDF

2011 E-Training

• The Why, What, Who, Where and How of Volunteer Development >> PDF
• The Downtown Spring Spruce-up Presentation >> PDF
• Façade Improvement Categories >> PDF
• Infrastructure Inventory Tool >> PDF
• Recorded Webinar >> Link

2010 Essentials: A Focus on Organization and Promotion

• 2010 Essentials Agenda >> PDF
• Organization essentials presentation >> PDF
• Fundraising plans handout >> PDF
• Successful fundraising ideas >> PDF
• Blank fundraising plan >> PDF
• Promotion essentials presentation >> PDF
• Promotion planning checklist >> PDF
• Evaluating Main Street promotions >> PDF
• Concurrent conversations notes >> PDF
• Bristol board engagement resources >> PDF
• Press relationship nuts & bolts presentation >> PDF
• Selling sponsorships presentation >> PDF
• Developing a marketing plan presentation >> PDF

2010 Summer Toolkit: Cultivating an Entrepreneurial Downtown

• 2010 Summer Toolkit agenda >> PDF
• Downtown business recruitment and retention >> PDF
• Thinking and acting more like a developer/The power of downtown entrepreneurship >> PDF
• Staunton gift card merchant instructions >> PDF
• Staunton extended store hours proposal >> PDF
• Staunton extended store hours final analysis >> PDF
• Altavista economic restructuring activities >> PDF
• Hatching new businesses at the Franklin Business Incubator >> PDF
• The ABC’s of starting a business >> PDF
• A field guide to the downtown entrepreneur >> PDF
• Downtown entrepreneur open topic conversation notes >> PDF

2010 E-Training

• Telling your Main Street Story in Words >> PDF
• Engaging and Motivating Volunteers >> PDF
• Leadership Structure Assessment >> Word
• Your Story in Pictures >> PDF (11mb)
• Webinar Photo Critique Exercise >> PDF
  
• Photography Basics Tip Sheet >> PDF
• Photo Competition Announcement >> PDF

2010 Program Manager’s Retreat

• Mission-based Nonprofit Financial Management >> PDF
• Budget Worksheet >> Excel

2009 E-Training

• Making the Annual Fund Campaign an Annual Success

2009 Main Street Essentials: Economic restructuring and design

• Economic Restructuring 1 and 2: The ER committee and market assessment
• Economic Restructuring 3: Assessing downtown
• Economic Restructuring 4: Developing a strategic plan
• Economic Restructuring 5 and 6: Retaining and attracting businesses
• Economic Restructuring: Exercise
• Economic Restructuring: Resources
• The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Program
• The Blackstone Block Grant Story
• The design committee
• The design process
• The built environment and principles of design
• The essentials of historic preservation
• Façade improvements
• Economic impact and financial incentives