Pilot Community Tourism Grant Program

January 07, 2025 • By: MNA, Montana Nonprofits Association

This page offers links, resources, tools, and updates for Montana Department of Commerce Pilot Community Tourism Grant Program recipients.

Quick Links

 

Upcoming Trainings

Cohort Chats | Third Tuesday of the Month | 4:30 – 5:30 | Zoom

  • January 21
  • Feb 18
  • March 18
  • April 15
  • May 20
  • June 17

Community Engagement + Messaging | Feb 26th | 12 -1

The cat is out of the bag! Develop and hone consistent messaging for your steering committee to share and use as you tell your project’s story with community members. Community engagement and support begins with clear understanding of your steering committee’s goals and process. This workshop will help you develop and share consistent messaging AND respond to community questions in ways that build confidence and cohesion for all stakeholders. Especially helpful as a check-in before you prepare to release community surveys in the coming months.

Sharing Surveys Successfully | March 5th | 12-1

Maximize survey responses so you can have great data for great decision making. This collaborative workshop will share tools and templates for gathering comprehensive survey responses from your community and offer a space to brainstorm and plan techniques that will work for you.

Matching Funding | April 30 | 12 – 1

Hear about current and future grant opportunities to make PCTGP funding go further as well as search tips, platforms, and tools for identifying grant and matching funding.

 

Resources

July 2024 Community Capacity Assessment Summary

Committee Chair Job Description

  • Job descriptions help clarify roles and keep steering committee members on track
  • See a customizable job description template below. Request additional templates or descriptions by emailing ashike@mtnonprofit.org or share your examples to the cohort at pctgp@gaggle.email
  • Committee Chair Job Description Template

 

Get Grant Ready Resources

2024 Get Grant Ready presentation

 

Request for Proposals Best Practices

So you want to create an RFP?  

Working with contractors and consultants will likely be a part of your grant activities. Resources for crafting and building a great RFP process are below.

  • Advice for small business owners from Linkedin Learning (this is also an ad for a software company so feel free to disregard that piece)
  • When using government funding, make sure to chat with your county attorney to make sure you are following any rules/regulations that the county has for procurement.  It would be better to air on the side of caution with any boilerplate language or process that the county recommends.
  • If you are working with PCTGP funding, be sure to follow all Dept. Of Commerce procurement requirements.

 

Running Great Meetings

Collaborative work means many meetings!

Make the most of your time working with your steering committee by viewing and sharing the resources below:

 

Budget Mini Workshop

Stay on top of the budget

Budgeting tools and tips below:

 

Contractors

See a full list of MNA’s Partners for Good Directory here. Additional curated parters here:

 

Grant Writing, Evaluation, Planning:

 

Website Development, Marketing, Communications:

 

Inspiration + Learning:

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