The Power of Main Street! | |
Missouri Main Street Connection visited Washington, D.C. with Main Street America for their Annual Hill Day.
Missouri Main Street Connection (MMSC) met with members of Congress and their staff alongside Main Street coordinating programs from across the country. View MMSC's photos from Hill Day where we educated our federal legislators on the success of Main Streets across the nation.
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Get Your Kicks in St. Charles
Read our featured article highlighting the location of our Annual State Conference, St. Charles.
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Black History Month 2025 on Missouri’s Main Streets
Read our featured article highlighting the successes of Black owned businesses in Missouri's Main Streets.
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Get Familiar with Historic Preservation
Read our featured article to get more familiar with historic preservation.
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Happy Happy New Year, Friends of Main Street!
Read our State Director's featured article that beautifully wrapped up 2024.
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Accepting Speaker Proposals for the 2025 Missouri's Premier Downtown Revitalization Conference! | |
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Missouri Main Street Connection (MMSC) is now accepting speaker proposals for Missouri’s Premier Downtown Revitalization Conference 2025. We are calling for sessions ranging from 45 to 75 minutes for new and established downtown revitalization programs. This year's theme, "Get Your Kicks on Main Street," will enlighten attendees on the power of a good story for cultivating community pride, attracting visitors, and preserving local heritage. Main Street is positioned perfectly to catch the attention of locals and visitors with inspiring stories, picturesque places, and fun experiences bringing the community together to live, work, invest, and play; boosting the local economy.
We encourage submissions highlighting the importance of collecting and sharing district stories, empowering volunteers to implement experiences that foster community connections infused with history and character, and featuring the unique qualities of a district as a great place to live, work, invest, and play. Your proposal can reflect any of the four points of the Main Street Approach™: Design, Organization, Promotion, and Economic Vitality. We strive to provide content at all learning levels including newer to advanced communities and share perspectives and success stories from urban districts to small towns and rural Main Streets.
Sessions at the conference are scheduled for Wednesday, July 23 and Thursday, July 24. The schedule is determined by balancing topics and target audiences. Please make sure you are available on these dates before submitting.
NOTE: If you have an idea but don’t want to organize an entire session, please fill out this form and submit your idea. MMSC may combine your presentation with others to create a session.
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Storyville, Grow Your Own Storytelling Quarterly Workshop | |
DATE & TIME:
Thursday, March 6, 2025
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
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LOCATION:
Central Methodist University Inman, Student & Community Center
N. Mulberry Street,
Fayette, MO 65248
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Community storytelling effectively markets any historic commercial district while uplifting and embracing the people who create the places we love. The process of community storytelling is simple enough that anyone can do it without being a professional writer or photographer, and it won’t burden your busy schedule.
Phil Eich, founder of Storyville, will lead the Grow Your Own Storytellers workshop to equip passionate people, of any level of marketing experience, with the skills necessary to integrate storytelling into their historic commercial districts marketing through writing, photography, and social media management.
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Creative Space Activation Grant Webinar | |
DATE & TIME:
Wednesday, March 19, 2025
8:30 am - 9:30 am
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Missouri Main Street Connection invites local Main Street board members, committee chairs, and staff to participate in the Creative Space Activation Grant webinar on March 19, 2025.
Learn about the grant, application process, and finalist “pitch”. All the details you need for a successful application and finalist “pitch” will be discussed including the narrative and budget for the application materials as well as ways to engage the crowd with a stunning “pitch”.
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DATE & TIME:
Thursday, March 20, 2025
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
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Join Ben White and Keith Winge during our monthly Open Office Hours between 12 PM - 1 PM to ask questions and discuss your ideas. This is a great opportunity to connect with us and move your community’s ideas forward. No registration or RSVP needed.
Access MMSC online Open Office Hours on our website on the Engaging Conversations Page.
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Mornings on Main: Hands-on History Experiences for All Ages | |
DATE & TIME:
Wednesday, April 2, 2025
8:30 am - 9:30 am
| Missouri community members and stakeholders interested in revitalizing their historic commercial district should attend one of the Community Empowerment Grant Workshops in 2025. Through the workshop, stakeholders will learn about the time-tested Main Street principles for downtown revitalization and the 70/30 Matching Service Grant offered by Missouri Main Street Connection. This grant provides services that assist in the establishment of a locally-led 501c3 nonprofit Main Street organization to lead volunteers in implementing downtown revitalization through the Four Points of the Main Street Approach™ in their historic commercial district. | | |
Community Empowerment Grant Workshop - Round 2 | |
DATE & TIME:
Wednesday, April 16, 2025
10:00 am - 1:00 pm
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LOCATION:
Governor's Office Building,
Room 316
Jefferson City, MO
| Missouri community members and stakeholders interested in revitalizing their historic commercial district should attend one of the Community Empowerment Grant Workshops in 2025. Through the workshop, stakeholders will learn about the time-tested Main Street principles for downtown revitalization and the 70/30 Matching Service Grant offered by Missouri Main Street Connection. This grant provides services that assist in the establishment of a locally-led 501c3 nonprofit Main Street organization to lead volunteers in implementing downtown revitalization through the Four Points of the Main Street Approach™ in their historic commercial district. | | |
- April 15 – Skillbuilder Workshop: Fundraising Fundamentals, Jefferson City
- May 8 – Green Initiatives on Main Street Webinar, Virtual
- May 21-22 – Main Street Summit, Branson
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Main Street Opportunities | |
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Find the MMSC "Doctor Is In" consultation in the new Historic Preservation Suite on our website. The Historic Preservation Committee is accepting applications for its free “Doctor Is In” consultation service open to Main Street organizations in MMSC’s top three-tiers.
Whether it is an existing project or a new emergency with a downtown property, no preservation project is too big or small for MMSC’s Board and Advisory members to provide guidance, answers, and connections to assist you in accomplishing your district's preservation goals.
Learn more, review eligibility, and fill out the submission form on our website under the Historic Preservation Suite to have a consultation with the doctors regarding your preservation project.
Contact Ben White at Ben@momainstreet.org if you have any questions.
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Main Street 101 is a free online training series that provides flexible training on the Main Street Approach™ for new board members, volunteers, staff, and city officials. This tool includes 40-45 minute long modules that can be used for volunteer development, committee training, and leadership development. The training series includes various resources and guides to help a Main Street program with further committee development. | |
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Congratulations to Those Certified in February! | | | |
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Warrensburg Main Street
Joshua Cantrell
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Downtown Maryville
Doug Seipel
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Canton Main Street
Jarrod Phillips
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Uptown Jackson
Kaci Hubbard
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Downtown Monroe City
Julie Gilkey
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This project has been funded in part by a grant from the USDA Rural Development. | | | |
Main Street Professional Directory | Browse the free Professional Directory to connect with specialists and experts covering a host of disciplines in preservation-based economic development to mobilize your organization in implementing your downtown revitalization project. | | |
Main Street Resource Library | |
Ensure you are a MMSC investor to gain access to our Main Street Resource Library that hosts documents covering all areas of the Main Street Approach™.
Email Staci Cox at staci@momainstreet.org for more information about becoming an investor.
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Missouri Main Street Connection
is dedicated to creating and preserving
memories made by generations in our
historic downtowns.
You are invited to support Heritage Circle through a monetary donation. Your donation supports historic commercial districts across Missouri to discover and celebrate the importance of community culture, local history, and traditions that make each community irreplaceable.
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Your donation can be made monthly or annually in whatever amount you choose. Please choose the frequency of your donation to Missouri Main Street Connection today by clicking on one of the buttons below. | |
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YOUR DONATION IS TAX DEDUCTIBLE. Missouri Main Street Connection is a statewide, 501c3, not-for-profit organization and is the leading statewide nonprofit organization devoted to preservation-based economic development. Through the Main Street America® movement and our partners, we empower community revitalization by celebrating, supporting, and sustaining Missouri historic commercial districts in both rural and urban settings. | |
Thank You to Our February Heritage Circle Donors! | |
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Robert Espeland
Gayla & Ken Roten
Margaret Waterman & Steven Hoffman
John & Chris Johnston
Bob & Sue Lewis
Julie Turnipseed
Marla Mills
James Mayo
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Missouri Main Street Connection is a statewide, 501c3, not-for-profit organization committed to fostering renewed vitality and sustainability in historic commercial districts across the state of Missouri.
Missouri Main Street Connection is an equal opportunity organization.
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