{"id":13373,"date":"2026-02-02T10:00:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/?p=13373"},"modified":"2026-02-02T10:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T15:01:10","slug":"2027-main-street-maryland-conference-request-for-proposals-now-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2026\/02\/02\/2027-main-street-maryland-conference-request-for-proposals-now-open\/","title":{"rendered":"2027 Main Street Maryland Conference &#8211; Request for Proposals Now Open"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Main Street Maryland Program is seeking proposals from qualified organizations to host the <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2027 Main Street Maryland Conference proposed for October 5-6, 2027. This annual two-day <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">conference brings together economic development professionals, community leaders, and Main <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Street practitioners from across the region to share knowledge, best practices, and inspiring <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stories.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The goals of the conference are to:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Inspire:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Help attendees get excited and creative through keynote speakers. A mix of ignite presentations and TED Talk-style presentations, and breakout sessions.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>Educate:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Provide useful tips and practical tools to help attendees strengthen their Main Street programs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b style=\"font-size: revert;color: initial\">Network:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Support connections and collaboration between attendees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dhcd.maryland.gov\/Communities\/Documents\/MainStreet\/2027-main-street-maryland-conference-request-for-proposal.pdf\">Request for Proposal (RFP) Details- 2027 Mainstreet Maryland Conference<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Main Street Maryland Program is seeking proposals from qualified organizations to host the 2027 Main Street Maryland Conference proposed for October 5-6, 2027. This annual two-day conference brings together economic development professionals, community leaders, and Main Street practitioners from across the region to share knowledge, best practices, and inspiring stories. The goals of the<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/2026\/02\/02\/2027-main-street-maryland-conference-request-for-proposals-now-open\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269,"featured_media":12937,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,163],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-street-maryland","category-legal-notices"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13373"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13380,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13373\/revisions\/13380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dhcd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}