Bakersfield Downtown Ambassadors

The Paycheck Protection Program provides small businesses with funds to pay up to 8 weeks of payroll costs including benefits. Funds can also be used to pay int...erest on mortgages, rent, and utilities. The Paycheck Protection Program provides small businesses with funds to pay up to 8 weeks of payroll costs including benefits. Funds can also be used to pay interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities. Fully Forgiven Funds are provided in the form of loans that will be fully forgiven when used for payroll costs, interest on mortgages, rent, and utilities (due to likely high subscription, at least 75% of the forgiven amount must have been used for payroll). See more

Show up tonight at Encore for our block to block mixer and enter into the raffle for chances to win Fox theater tickets, $25 gift certificate from Guarantee Sho...e Center, $50 gift certificate from In Your Wildest Dreams! More to be announced! @guaranteeshoecenter @historicbakersfieldfox @wildestdreamsconsignment @cskow @boutiqueencore starts at 6pm 1817 Eye Street! #Downtown #Bakersfield #Mixer #boutiques See more

Great Job Melanie Farmer with the Block to Block project bringing business owners and city leaders together working to find solutions....teamwork!

Support your local stores in downtown, Bakersfield. Chalk Talk GUARANTEE SHOE CENTER Encore Boutique - Chic Resale

Wow a year ago filmed a Video at KGET TV 17 studio's with the Idea Girl promoting the Street Ambassador Program that was a pilot program. The program ran April through November of last year. Businesses loved and are missing the program. DBDC is working on a short and long range funding to bring back to downtown. Building the Team and Dream in 2017!

Good meeting yesterday at the Fox Theater with Gunnar reviewing top 10 ideas for review that would improve downtown. This was a result from workshops last year.... Now final workshops for the community to review and help create a plan. Cal Polly architectural students were in attendance and has picked downtown Bakersfield as a class project....let us know if you want to be part of the Team in 2017! See more

Join us tomorrow afternoon at the kickoff of the, Bakersfield Downtown Street Ambassadors". At 4;30 pm at the newly opened "Encore Boutique" at the Southwest corner of 19th and Eye,Join Mayor Hall and many other community leaders in the support of this bold new project. By hiring men and women previously homeless or at risk, this program will help clean up the streets of downtown, as well as encourage outreach to those still at risk in our community...This is a collaboration ...between the DBDC, The Homeless Center, The Mission at Kern County, and Garden Pathways...Sponsored by: Lake Family Foundation, Rain for Rent, and The Bakersfield Californian Foundation. Additional Support from: Mayor Harvey L. Hall, The Idea Girl Network,KGET Ch 17,Boss Pizza, Chain/Cohen/Stiles, The DBA, City of Bakersfield Solid Waste Division, and Keep Bakersfield Beautiful. See more