Dear CAMS Community
Left: Amanda Elliott, Senior Program Officer and Director of California Programs. Right: Scene from the San Benito County Saddle Horse Show Parade in Downtown Hollister (Credit: Downtown Hollister Association)
CAMS Quarterly | Spring 2022
By: Amanda Elliott, Senior Program Officer and Director of California Programs, Main Street America
Happy Summer!
It is so exciting to see our communities in full swing with farmers markets, festivals, beer and wine strolls, community clean-ups, and other downtown special projects and programs. Our Main Streets have come alive welcoming visitors and working with our small businesses to support economic development initiatives to help them thrive.
California Main Street continues to seek funding from the state to support our revitalization efforts and our Main Street programs. We will need your support as we ramp up our engagement with our state representatives. I am working with the CAMS Board to schedule an advocacy day to engage with our representatives in Sacramento to introduce them to the excellent work underway throughout our California communities. This will be an opportunity for you to highlight your stellar initiatives and demonstrate how main street programs are the economic development engines that help our downtowns and commercial districts remain vibrant. Stay tuned to learn how you can get involved in our advocacy efforts and outreach.
Please be sure to share your work with us so that we can highlight it on our CAMS digital channels and throughout our national network. We’re always looking for new stories and successful solutions to common problems we all experience – parking, partnerships, funding, and volunteer engagement rank high on the list. Check out our blog guidelines and send us your stories!
California Main Street is seeking new board members! If you are interested in working with a dedicated team of revitalization and economic development professionals contact me aelliott@savingplaces.org or Gumaro Escarcega, Board Chair, gumaro@mainstreetoceanside.com, to inquire about joining.
Thanks for all you do!
In partnership,
Amanda Elliott