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Our most popular program
We believe small towns can be saved by their own people using their own resources.
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Tour of Empty Buildings Toolkit
Tired of ignoring those empty buildings? Hear how Deb filled 11 empty buildings by showing them off.
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$100
Pop-Up Fair Course - Revive Your Dead Downtown
Your downtown needs more life and activity, and more businesses. Start with this simple, proven and repeatable event.
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$50
Your challenges, answered in our videos
Our Downtown Needs Help
- Cheap Downtown Placemaking Ideas - $100 or less
- Reviving Your Dead Downtown
- Filling Empty Buildings
- The Arts Create our Future - More than just murals
- Bringing Life and Activity Downtown After 5
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People are negative or stuck in the past
- The Idea Friendly Method
- Dealing with Negativity and Opposition
- Seeing the Small Town Future - Positive rural trends
- Before You Write Your Next Plan
- If Your Idea is Against the Rules
Our young people are moving away
- Connecting with Kids - Engaging with Middle and High School Students
- Attracting and Retaining Youth - from school age to young families
We need more businesses, more jobs or a new approach to economic development
- Rebuilding Your Local Economy - coming back after disaster
- Refilling Your Business Pipeline
- Grow Your Own Entrepreneurs - the Innovative Rural Business Models
- Empty Lot Economic Development
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Our businesses need help with marketing and promotion
- Restarting Local Shopping - reopening after quarantine
- Shop Local is worn out! What works today
- Cooperation Creates More Customers - Getting local businesses to work together
We need more volunteers
- Finding More Volunteers
- Big ideas? - The most common mistake we see
- Events They’ll Attend - Creating them together
- Making Officials and Boards open to new ideas