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Program Assistant of Content and Communications, The National Main Street Center - Chicago, IL

The National Main Street Center, a subsidiary of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, is
looking for a Program Assistant of Content and Communications that will assist with the membership
communications efforts of the National Main Street Center. Primary responsibilities include
preparing the National Main Street Center's weekly newsletter, updating the Center's website, and
handling the Center's social media.

It's a great opportunity for a recent planning school graduate interested in communicating the
connection between creating quality urban places and economic competitiveness. For more details
and to apply visit http://bit.ly/1xt54tI.


More information about the National Main Street Center:
The National Main Street Center is a national organization committed to historic
preservation-based community revitalization. Through education, outreach, hands-on training,
online resources, facilitating connections and conferences, we inspire and enable leaders across
the country to build strong communities. For the past 34 years, the National Main Street Center
has equipped more than 2,000 communities with an organizing framework to preserve and revitalize
their traditional downtowns and commercial districts.

By using the Main Street Four Point
Approach(r)<http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/about-main-street/the-approach/>, the
affiliated Main Street organizations that make up the Main Street Network have rehabbed more than
246,000 buildings, produced $59.6 billion in investment, and created 502,728 jobs, (see more on
our reinvestment
statistics<http://www.preservationnation.org/main-street/about-main-street/reinvestment-statistics-1.html>).
Building on this successful foundation, the National Main Street Center is committed to expanding
the impact of the Main Street program by providing a new generation of research and resources to
existing Main Street programs and extending our reach to other commercial districts that are not
yet part of the Main Street Network.