Historic Preservation Advocacy Guide
About This Guide
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This guide contains more than 100 how-to articles to help you learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community.
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Historic Preservation Glossary
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Not sure what "Certified Local Government" means? Check out our Glossary for this and other Historic Preservation terms. Go to the Glossary
Have Questions?
Contact Jason Tish by phone at 608-264-6512 or by email below for questions about Historic Preservation Advocacy.
Preservation Advocacy Topics
Plan Your Fundraising Strategies for Preservation Advocacy
- Organize a Preservation Advocacy Effort
Learn how to organize support to save historic resources and promote preservation policies in your community.
- Fund Your Preservation Organization
Learn fundraising skills and strategies and discover where to find financial support for your historic preservation organization.
- Communicate Your Preservation Message
Learn how to make a case for historic preservation and use multiple tools to share your preservation message with different audiences.
- Start a Nonprofit Preservation Organization
Learn the steps to start a nonprofit organization in Wisconsin and best practices to get your historic preservation organization off to a good start.
- Operate Your Nonprofit Preservation Organization
Learn how to build an effective nonprofit board of directors, find and keep members, solve common nonprofit management problems, and work with government on historic preservation issues.
Feature Story
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- Dogged Determination Saves Historic Chippewa Falls Building
With resourcefulness and ingenuity, Wisconsin’s historic preservationists have raised millions of dollars to protect the state's historic past.
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The Historic Preservation Advocacy Guide is supported in part by a Preserve America grant administered by the National Park Service, Department of Interior.