More about the Video Library and Watch Party Passes

More about the Video Library and Watch Party Passes

A SaveYour.Town video watch party in Greely County, Kansas. Photo by Simone Marie



Watch Party Pass and Insider All Access Pass holders have access to all of our recorded videos, audios and materials.


You can see the entire list of videos in the Table of Contents.

Feel free to watch videos in any order. Skip around. Pick the topics that work best for your town.

Once you open a video, its icon will change to a checkmark on the list. You can still go back. That just lets you know which ones you've opened.  

You can watch a video as many times as you want, no limit, as long as you are a current Pass holder. You can start and stop the video as often as you need to, even rewind to catch a key point. 

Many videos include an audio version, links to other resources, handouts you can download or a transcript. Those are for you and your group only. Please don't share them with the public unless they're marked for the public. Thanks!


Share the videos with Watch Parties!

You can get together online or in person. Each video lasts around 20 to 30 minutes. For a group watch party, schedule 45-60 minutes. You'll want that extra time to discuss what you watched and to network and talk with each other.
For more virtual and in-person watch party tips click here


Tech Tips

You can watch the video from any device, any screen that can load a web page and play a YouTube video. Any PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android phone or tablet, smart TV or TV with a streaming box or stick should work. You may want to try it out first, before you gather that big group! If you run into technical problems, the fastest way to reach us is by text message:

  • Deb 641-580-0103

  • Becky 580-430-6173 

Or use the little messaging icon at the bottom right of your screen, or email us deb@saveyour.town or becky@saveyour.town 

Ready to get a pass? Learn more about Watch Party and All Access Passes by clicking here. 


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  • More about the Video Library and Watch Party Passes

Our Downtown Needs Help

  • Cheap Downtown Placemaking Ideas - $100 or less
  • The Tour of Empty Buildings video and audio
  • Reviving Your Dead Downtown
  • Filling Empty Buildings
  • Fill big empty buildings with Shared Spaces
  • Use Art to Build Community
  • Embedded Community Experience - See your town with new eyes
  • Bringing Life and Activity Downtown After 5

Our young people are moving away

  • Idea Friendly for Youth: Picture and Make the Change You Want
  • Build Youth Entrepreneurship
  • Connecting with Kids - Engaging with Middle and High School Students
  • Improving Rural Housing4
  • Attracting and Retaining Youth - from school age to young families

Our businesses need help with marketing and promotion

  • Beating the Online Competition - small town retail tactics that work
  • Shop Local is worn out! What works today
  • Cooperation Creates More Customers - Getting local businesses to work together
  • Stories that Sell - How rural people can easily market their business and town
  • The Future of Retail - Action steps for small towns

People are negative or stuck in the past

  • The Idea Friendly Method
  • Idea Friendly Next Steps
  • Dealing with Negativity and Opposition
  • If Your Idea is Against the Rules
  • Seeing the Small Town Future - Positive rural trends3
  • Change the Conversation - Why the Tour of Empty Buildings worked

We need more businesses, more jobs or a new approach to economic development

  • Rural workforce Trends
  • Equity in Rural Economic Development - Open opportunity to more people
  • Cheap Economic Development
  • Grow Your Own Entrepreneurs - the Innovative Rural Business Models
  • Survey of Rural Challenges 2021
  • Craft Entrepreneurs Create Prosperity - works in even the tiniest towns
  • Empty Lot Economic Development
  • Making Entrepreneurship Self-sustaining - Why training isn't the answer
  • Grow Your Food Business Ecosystem - expand the market for local foods
  • Rural Jobs Creation Strategies

We need more volunteers

  • Find More Volunteers - video and audio version
  • Get Businesses on Board video
  • Big ideas? Small Steps! - The most common mistake we see
  • Events They’ll Attend - Creating them together
  • Idea Friendly Officials and Boards - open to new ideas
  • Before You Write Your Next Plan

Resilience Videos

  • 5 Top Topics for 2023
  • Building a Unified Community: Reaching and Rallying Everyone
  • Rebuild Community Ties After Disaster - Natural disasters or economic losses
  • 2022 Rural Trends
  • Survey of Rural Challenges themes 2015 - 2021
  • Making Downtown Look Full (even when it isn't)
  • Refilling Your Business Pipeline video
  • Zoom Towns - Supporting Rural Remote Work
  • Placemaking Your Parks, Trails and Water: Building Community Stewardship - video and audio1
  • Rebuilding Local Economy
  • Restarting Local Shopping
  • Food Builds Community: Addressing hunger, growing prosperity

Audio - listen on the go like a podcast

  • The Idea Friendly Method Audio
  • Idea Friendly Next Steps audio
  • 5 Top Topics for 2023 - audio version
  • Placemaking Parks, Trails and Waters - audio version
  • The Tour of Empty Buildings audio version
  • Food Builds Community audio version
  • Find More Volunteers main lesson - audio version
  • Find more volunteers - bonus lesson audio version
  • Audio: Idea Friendly for Youth: Picture and Make the Change You Want
  • Improving Rural Housing Audio