Oregon Main Street Policies and Procedures Manual Published

  Our friends at Oregon Main Street asked Heritage Consulting Inc to bring an old Policies and Procedures Manual for local Main Street organizations up to date and to include best practices for downtown organizations. This 76 page manual is a fill in the blank PDF so you can add your organization's title and processes for check signing for example. About half of the document deals with personnel matters, and this manual has extensive documentation about worker rights and...

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PDC 2023 Conference Diversify Your Revenue Sources!

We are excited to present our most popular Main Street presentation at the 2023 Pennsylvania Downtown Center Conference in Scranton on June 28 2023.  We began presenting Diversify Your Revemue Sources in 2004 when we first began our consulting practice and 18 years later it is still a classic in the fundraiisng for Main Street organizations. There are plenty of handouts for this talk  1.Slides for the presentation Diversity Your Revenue Sources  2. Procrastinators Guide to...

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Handouts I Hate Fundraising Scranton PA PDC conference. 2023

We are delighted to be speaking at the annual 2023 Pennsylvania Downtown Center conference in Scranton PA.  Our presentation for the Main Street and Elm Street managers is set for June 27 in late afternoon. Here are the handouts for that session The word document handout we used during the event itself. You can customize this worksheet to your situation And a 20 slide powerpoint presentation that you can use. I encourage you to substitue your own slides and make it sound like your...

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New Jersey Historic Preservation Conference Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards HANDOUTS

We are so delighted to be presenting this workshops at the New Jersey Historic Preservaiton Conference on Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards for Historic Sites. Here are the handouts and the 3 page session slides for you to use.   Powerpoint slides  all 13 handouts discussed during the session 

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Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards

On Ocrober 19, 2022 we will be presenting our session on Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards at the Illinois Main Street Conference in Bloomington  IL.  Here are the handouts we are...

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