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Several local organizations that suffered revenue losses due to the COVID-19 pandemic received relief grants from the Washington County Riverboat Foundation this fall, including Main Street Washington.

The non-profit organization received $13,000, which Main Street Director Sarah Grunewaldt says will help offset losses caused by a lack of event programming, “And this year for businesses have been really tight, we felt really awkward about going out and asking them for money when they didn’t know if they were going to be able to keep their doors open. So we really cinched in our belt and kind of cut our budget as much as we could to kind of keep our costs as low as we could, so we could continue operations without being a burden on our businesses and then also to backfill from those event losses.”

Grunewaldt says the grant will help cover some operating expenses of the organization, and invest in technology and software that has helped them hold some of their events online and keep up donor retention. Grunewaldt says that she is grateful for the foundation’s assistance in helping Main Street Washington keep their doors open and plan for 2021.