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Downtown Champion Challenge
Your Support is Needed
Be a Downtown Champion!
Strong downtowns mean strong communities.
Michigan's downtowns need your financial support now to remain strong and to continue creating the amazing places you call home!
It is vital to protect the resources available for downtown economic development, connect downtowns to these resources, and increase public understanding of the value of these resources for the daily operations and future business growth in our downtowns.
Your donation to the MDA's Legislative and Advocacy Fund will help the MDA be your downtown's voice in Lansing and around the State.
In 2017, the MDA Board of Directors issued a Downtown Champion Challenge to all members to raise a minimum donation of $250 (in addition to your annual membership dues). Local businesses, residents, visitors, and organizations are also invited to help your downtown be a Champion!
While MDA members' annual dues keep our great workshops and annual meeting coming every year, more is needed if we want to continue our active voice in Lansing.
Here's What you Can Do:
- Send an additional sum of $250 of more behalf of your organization, specifically for the Legislative Advocacy fund;
- Businesses, residents, property owners, and shoppers can support their downtowns by donating $25, $50, $100, $250 or more! Every donation makes a champion, and the winner will be DOWNTOWNS across Michigan;
- Inform your Board, friends, volunteers, and State and local elected officials about efforts in Lansing to defund our downtowns. We not only need monetary support, but we need advocates
to call their State Representatives, Senators, and the Governor of Michigan to make our voices heard.
Now is the time! We need your support.
Here's What Else We Are Doing To Make Sure Our Voices Are Heard:
- MDA is educating members at workshops and conferences, and through email notifications with regular Legislative Updates;
- We are reaching out to our sponsors and friends to inform them and for advocacy contributions.
- We work closely with partners to keep informed about issues in the legislature that could effect downtowns.
Together we can stand strong and preserve the resources that help our downtowns create thriving communities.
Thank you for your support & for being a Downtown Champion!
Michigan Downtown Association
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Thank you to our donors!
| Anonymous 11786 |
| Anonymous 3783 |
| Dearborn DDA |
| Kalamazoo DDA |
| Middleville DDA |
| Van Buren Township DDA |
| Frankenmuth DDA |
| POW Strategies |
| Walker Parking |
| Gibbs Planning |
| Flint DDA |
| Van Buren Township DDA |
| Beckett & Raeder |
| Shelley Perry |
| Barry Hicks |
| Village of Middleville |
| Penchura LLC |
| City of Wixom |
| Vicksburg DDA |
| City of Hart |
| Wade Trim |
| City of Auburn |
| Anonymous |
| Ortonville DDA |
| Munising DDA |
| Cascade Charter Township |
| CC Consulting |
| City of Hancock |
| City of Plymouth DDA |
| Royal Oak DDA |
| Village of Sparta DDA |
| City of Mt. Pleasant DDA |
| City of Frankenmuth DDA |
| City of Pinconning DDA |
| Thomas Gerdom |
| Walker Parking |
| Roscommon DDA |
| Flat Rock DDA |
| Detroit Economic Growth Corp |
| Traverse City DDA |
| St. Ignace DDA |
| Clawson DDA |
| Imlay City DDA |
| City of Zeeland |
| Village of Almont |
| Redford Township |
| City of Romulus |
| City of Northville DDA |
| Vienna Township BDA |
| Oxford DDA |
| Bath Township |
| Rose City |
| City of Ypsilanti |
| City of Alma |
| Beckett & Raeder |
| Ferndale DDA |
| Pow Strategies |
| McKenna Associates |
| Gibbs Planning Group |
| Downtown Petoskey |
| Kalkaska DDA |
| McBain DDA |
| Portland DDA |
| Anonymous 12694 |
| Arthur Mullen |
| J. Dettloff |
| Highland DDA |
| Flint DDA |
| City of Linden |
| Muskegon DDA |
| Rich & Associates |
| City of Cadillac DDA |
| Farmington DDA |
| Williamston DDA |
| Auburn Hills DDA |
| City of Vassar DDA |
| City of Brighton DDA |
| City of Fenneville DDA |
| Village of Paw Paw DDA |
| City of Jackson |
| East Jordan Ironworks |
| Van Buren Township DDA |
| Bay City |
| Emily Pantera |
| Lawrence DDA |
| Port Huron |
| Jackson DDA |
| Imlay City DDA |
| Rose City |
| City of Utica |
| Lincoln Park |
| McKenna and Associates |
| City of Romulus |
| PEA Inc. |
| Garden City |
| Lumecon LLC |
| Rich & Associates |
| Beckett & Raeder |
| Charter Township of Highland |
| Rowe Professional Services Company |
| Detroit Economic Growth Corporation |
| Vicksburg DDA |
| Kalkaska DDA |
| Munising |
| Cascade Township |
| City of Alpena |
| Carlisle Wortman |
| City of Auburn DDA |
| LeClerc Display |
| City of Owosso |
| Roscommon DDA |
| City of Plymouth DDA |
| City of Ortonville DDA |
| Sault St. Marie DDA |
| Traverse City DDA |
| Lake Orion DDA |
| Ypsilanti DDA |
| City of Centerline |
| Downtown Petoskey |
| Tom Neff |
| Karen Hildebrant |
| Karen Hildebrant |
| Kristi Trevarrow |
| Kristi Trevarrow |
| Dave Alexander |
| Dave Alexander |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Chris Leonard |
| Chris Leonard |
| Leslie Stempek |
| Leslie Stempek |
| Suzanne Maxwell |
| Suzanne Maxwell |
| Jeffrey Smith |
| Lynne Ladner |
| Lynne Ladner |
| James Mallery |
| Kim Schall |
| Kim Schall |
| Kim Schall |
| Tony Bruscato |
| Tony Bruscato |
| Tony Bruscato |
| Jerry Dettloff |
| Gerard Burnash |
| Paul Zelenak |
| Paul Zelenak |
| Shawn Bailey |
| Shawn Bailey |
| Cristina Sheppard-Decius |
| Cristina Sheppard-Decius |
| Scott |
| Jennifer Kibby |
| Ann Vollrath |
| William Cooper |
| Travis Brininstool |
| Dana Walker |
| Dana Walker |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Leah DuMouchel |
| Cristina Shephard-Decius |
| John R. Jackson, AICP |
| John R. Jackson, AICP |
| Linda Curtis |
