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"Downtowns and Locally Owned Businesses" will be held in Belfast on Thursday, May 7 and Friday, May 8. This 1 1/2 day session will focus on
- the dollars and sense of locally owned businesses,
- the importance of the street for economic success and
- marketing and design.
Register today to reserve your space at this sure to be sold-out session. Don't miss out on this critically important topic delivered in FMM's winning combination of stellar faculty, hands-on instruction with field work, and a leadership training component so you can be most effective in shaping your community's future and developing and maintaining a successful downtown, including profitable locally owned businesses. |
 How do downtowns and locally owned businesses thrive? What are the secrets to success? This session of The Community Institute will help you discover the answers to these questions and more! This is about and for YOU and YOUR COMMUNITY! Register today for "Downtowns and Locally Owned Businesses". This 3rd session of The Community Institute and will feature a 1 1/2 day training session with national and regional faculty members, hands-on field work and leadership skills. It will be held in Belfast on Thursday, May 7 and Friday May 8. Faculty include John Massengale, co-author of Street Design:The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, and Chuck D'Aprix, founder of The Downtown Entrepreneurship Project and downtown marketing expert. We will also be sharing local success stories including Mary Kate Reny of the Damariscotta-Newcastle Twin Villages Alliance. Visit www.communityinstitute.org for complete descriptions of the faculty and program details.
Registration is $125 and includes coffee breaks, lunch and all program materials. Some partial scholarships are available.
This session of the Community Institute also includes a FREE Thursday evening presentation open to the general public by John Massengale on his recent book, co-authored with Victor Dover on "Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns".
The Community Institute session will be held in downtown Befast at the Belfast Boat House and is sponsored by Friends of Midcoast Maine, Camden National Bank, Maine Association of Planners, and held in collaboration with Our Town Belfast, the Belfast Creative Coalition, the Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce, GrowSmart Maine, Midcoast Leadership Academy, Maine Downtown Center and others.
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Street Design - The Secret to Great Cities and Towns  Join us for a FREE evening presentation, open to the public, with John Massengale, co-author with Victor Dover of "Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns". The talk will be held on Thursday, May 7th at The Colonial Theater in Downtown Belfast at 7 p.m.
John Massengale, AIA, is an international thought leader on the connections between urban design, architecture, placemaking, and walkability. Co-author with Victor Dover, FAICP, of Street Design: The Secret to Great Cities and Towns, he has won awards for architecture, urbanism, historic preservation and architectural history. Massengale is a Board member of the Congress for the New Urbanism (CNU), the founding chair of CNU New York, and a former director of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. Massengale has taught architecture and urban design studios at the University of Miami School of Architecture and the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. With Robert A. M. Stern, he was coauthor of New York 1900: Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915 and The Anglo-American Suburb. This session of The Community Institute will be held in downtown Belfast at the Colonial Theater and is sponsored by Camden National Bank, Maine Association of Planners, Our Town Belfast, the Belfast Creative Coalition, the Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce and others. This session is free and open to the public. Donations are graciously appreciated.
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The Community Institute - Final Reports
One of the unique features of The Community Institute, that separates us rom other programs, is our final report after each 1 1/2 day session. These reports
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More Great Conferences 
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Grants
Maine Coastal Program grants are now available: The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry's Maine Coastal Program announced that it is seeking applications for a new round of coastal grants for FY 2016. The grants are for municipal and regional projects in Maine's Coastal Zone. The two types of available grants covered by this announcement are Coastal Communities Grants and Shore and Harbor Planning Grants. Funding for these technical assistance grants comes from Maine Coastal Program's annual grant from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) as well as the Submerged Lands Program within the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry. The Coastal Communities grants have a maximum award of $50,000, while the Shore and Harbor grant have a maximum award of $30,000. Those eligible to apply include towns in Maine's coastal zone, groups of towns in Maine's coastal zone; coastal Regional Planning Commissions; and coastal Councils of Government. Grant applications are due Thursday, May 14, 2015. READ MORE... |
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FMM Seeks Community Ambassadors
Our Community Ambassador program is our link to our communities and your link to us. Please let us know if YOU or SOMEONE YOU KNOW would like to be a community ambassador. We meet 4 times each year, usually over breakfast, and work to keep our communities and Friends of Midcoast Maine informed, knowledgeable and connected. Contact FMM Executive Director Jane Lafleur today at info@friendsmidcoast.org if you would like to hear more.
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STAY CONNECTED  Friends of Midcoast Maine
The Community Institute
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