Sustainability is essential to Main Streets. From managing projects to supporting the people who are the heart of your efforts, sustainability is a crucial consideration for building a durable Main Street program. The Main Street America Academy is here to help! This month, we invite you to focus on sustainability with this curated collection of learning opportunities and resources.

Available Now

Find helpful strategies and tools to ensure your efforts are built to last with these free, self-guided, 30-minute learning experiences and helpful resources.

Get started with these Focus on the Four Points courses: 

• Organization: Financial Resources and Sustainability
• Economic Vitality: Economic Development Strategies
• Design: Assessing Community Assets
• Promotion: Creating a Smart, Sustainable Promotion Strategy

Keep going with our Local Main Street Leader courses: 

• Basics of Resource Management & Budgeting
• Ensuring Financial Stability for Long-Term Impact
• Tracking Progress & Staying Accountable
• Recognizing & Preventing Burnout

Dive deeper with fundraising and finance resources available in our Knowledge Hub:

• Fund Development Toolkit
• Donor Support Handbook
• Browse all Fundraising & Finance resources >

Coming Soon

Grant Strategy & Readiness for Main Street Leaders

Part of the soon-to-launch Growing module of our Local Main Street Leader learning journey, this course will show you how to build and use smart systems to strategically pursue grant opportunities with confidence. Through hands-on exercises, you’ll practice aligning funding opportunities with your community’s needs and your organization’s goals, develop repeatable processes applicable to every phase of any grant lifecycle, and build a customized fund development toolkit. Keep an eye out for this course debuting soon!