Membership

Please complete and return the membership form

• Listed on ADHDA website
• Downtown networking opportunities
• Voting privilege in ADHDA board elections

• Within 24 hours of the Number 10 Sixth Street Fire we created an online website for displaced businesses to connect with people who had space, furniture or other offers of help. We also used our preliminary downtown inventory to help people find available office space and contact information for relocation.
• We launched our Design Committee, and they are developing plans to beautify our downtown.
• We applied for and received funding from the City of Astoria in the amount of $15,000.
• We applied to and were accepted to participate in the RARE program for a second year.
• We convinced Blaire to stay with us for a second year.
• We presented the first annual Jane Barnes Revue, raising $4,000.
• We organized our second annual downtown cleanup day, and provided volunteer staffing for a shred-it event raising money for ADHDA.
• We represented ADHDA at the Heritage Conference hosted in Astoria last April.
• We sent Blaire to the National Main Street conference in Iowa.
• We developed the first-ever joint membership offer in collaboration with the Chamber, bringing new members to both organizations.
• We raised $9,000 in paid memberships.
• We partnered with the Astoria Sunday Market to sell advertising in the Market Guide as a fundraiser, and also received a generous contribution of $5,000 from the Market.
• With assistance from the marketing class at Clatsop Community College, we conducted a consumer survey and presented our findings.
  
• We presented the 4th of July Riverwalk Parade.
• We brought our financial records into the electronic age.
• We presented the Wine Walk and Beer Walk.
• We partnered with organizers of the Astoria Regatta and the Brew Cup to involve downtown in those events.
• Our committees developed annual work plans and are working from those.
• We managed parking at the Crab Festival and the Great Columbia Crossing to raise money for ADHDA.
• We developed a new logo.
• We applied for and received an Elisabeth Potter Scholarship to send four representatives to the Oregon Main Street Conference, where we received an award for our Jane Barnes event.
• We presented the annual holiday kickoff, Astoria Sparkles, at the Liberty Theater along with a holiday food drive and Discover Astoria promotion.
  
• We brought the Art Walk and are bringing the Christmas Club officially under our umbrella.
• We completed our downtown inventory and expect our website and online inventory to go live before the end of the year.
  
• We partnered with the City of Astoria and Astoria Sunday Market to win a streetscape grant that is bringing new garbage cans, benches, planters, bike racks and bus shelters downtown.

• Launching a downtown visioning/identity process for Downtown Astoria.
• Conducting an economic analysis of Downtown Astoria.
• Developing a volunteer recruitment and retention plan.
  
• Further marketing and promotion of our organization.