Eastern Market Main Street
The mission of Eastern Market Main Street (EMMS) is to capitalize on their historic assets and entrepreneurial culture to promote, retain, and attract diverse, small businesses through the Main Street Four-Point Approach: Organization, Promotion, Design, and Economic Vitality. They preserve this historic corridor, supports small businesses, and fosters a vibrant, neighborhood serving corridor through public and private space improvements, capacity-building resources, and community events and campaigns.
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EMMS provides Health Checks to understand your businesses strengths and challenges to connect you to the right technical assistance. They offer promotional support and help businesses navigate DC bureaucracy. They also partner with CHAMPS to bring free educational sessions to small business on a variety of topics.
As a Google Local Partner, they offer the Get Your Business Online Program to help small businesses get online and grow.
In their Business Improvement Grant program, brick and mortar businesses can apply for an award of up to $4,000. Market vendors, market merchants, and customer-facing businesses within the yard can apply for an award of up to $1,000. The grant award can be used for hard costs like space build-out and renovations, façade improvements, and the purchase and installation of heavy equipment and fixtures. Grant money can also go towards soft costs such as point-of-sale and inventory management hardware and software, fees associated with expanding the business to e- commerce sales, and purchase and installation of movable equipment and furniture. The award can also be used for branding and marketing support.
Their Business Beat, a monthly newsletter, offers tips and tricks, business compliance reminders, technical assistance, and news.
- Access to Capital
- Bookkeeping Assistance
- Grant Assistance
- Business Licensing & Registration Assistance
- Business Operations
- Business Plan Development
- Business Start-Up Information
- Proposal & Contract Support Services
- Sales & Marketing
- Storefront Improvement
- Storefront or Façade Improvement
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