Grants Awarded to Six Missouri Communities for Downtown Revitalization
Appleton City, Blue Springs, Concordia, Monett, Peculiar and Seymour are receiving matching grants from Missouri Main Street Connection Inc. (MMSC) for downtown revitalization. They were selected in a competitive application process to participate in the new cost-sharing grant program that provides training and technical services to not-for-profit revitalization groups in Missouri's historic commercial districts.
Missouri Main Street Connection staff will conduct an initial consultation with each group to evaluate their current revitalization efforts, followed by a series of customized workshops and technical training services.
The grant period in each community will cover two years of intensive training and mentoring, using the preservation-based Four-Point Main Street Approach® to Revitalization. Each group will receive on-site training from MMSC to develop the leadership skills necessary to conduct a comprehensive revitalization program.
Representatives from each community also will attend regional revitalization workshops and conferences conducted by MMSC. The goal of the grant is to create local volunteer organizations that can undertake self-sustaining revitalization programs in cooperation with their municipal governments and other civic organizations.
The grant is a 40/60 match, requiring each community to contribute 40% of the cash value of the services, and MMSC to contribute 60% of the value of services
As a result of their successful grant applications, these communities are also Affiliates in the MMSC Tier Structure, which ranks revitalization progress on standards established by the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Main Street Center. For information about the MMSC Affiliate grant program, please contact Gayla Roten at 417-334-3014 or info@momainstreet.org.
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