Community Visioning in a Nutshell
This nutshell guide will guide you through this process, and provide recommendations for templates and further recommended resources that will support you in developing your own materials.
Work Plan Template
This template provides everything you need to create a comprehensive workplan for your next non-profit project.
How to Engage Your Downtown Business Owners
This training from Indiana Main Street explains the best practices for getting to know your downtown business owners and getting them engaged in the Main Street organization.
A Layperson’s Guide to Historic Preservation Law
This guide from the National Trust for Historic Preservation provides an overview of the laws you need to understand to support the historic buildings in your downtown district.
Toccoa, GA © Steph Maley
A Housing Guidebook for Local Leaders
As part of our "At Home on Main Street" project, this guidebook provides detailed guidance on zoning, regulations, downtown vacancies, real estate funding, and more to help local leaders improve housing access and affordability in their communities.
Foundations: Design
Design is one of the Four Points of the Main Street Approach, the leading downtown and commercial district revitalization framework.
Foundations: Economic Vitality
Economic vitality is one of the Four Points of the Main Street Approach, the leading downtown and commercial district revitalization framework.
Foundations: Organization
Organization is one of the Four Points of the Main Street Approach, the leading downtown and commercial district revitalization framework.
Foundations: Promotion
Promotion is one of the Four Points of the Main Street Approach, the leading downtown and commercial district revitalization framework.
Advocacy Toolkit
Check out our resources to help you communicate with government leaders, advance your policy goals, and expand the impact of your community development efforts.
