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What You Can Do After a Preservation Loss in Your Community

How You Can Win When You Lose
You may not win every historic preservation campaign, but you can use your foundation of support to launch your next effort.
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How to Use Email Communications Effectively in Your Historic Preservation Advocacy Work

Email is still the simplest, most effective tool for reaching out to supporters of your historic preservation advocacy work.
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Why Your Advocacy Group Might Want to Hire a Public Relations Professional

When your advocacy group is feeling the pinch of its small labor force, a public relations professional can be a good investment.
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How a Professional Lobbyist Can Help Your Historic Preservation Group

A professional lobbyist can be a good investment when your historic preservation group wants to do a targeted campaign.
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How to Use Facebook to Build Support for Your Historic Preservation Group

Facebook offers enormous potential to build support and raise money for your cause.
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How to Use Online Videos to Share Your Historic Preservation Message

Your historic preservation group can make compelling arguments for preservation by creating videos and posting them online.
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How Tax Status Affects Your Nonprofit Organization's Advocacy Activities

Your nonprofit organization's tax status determines whether your organization can engage in lobbying and other political activities
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How to Create a Public Relations Plan for Your Historic Preservation Group

A public relations plan can serve as a roadmap for your historic preservation group to effectively communicate your story and message.
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How to Attract Major Donors to Your Nonprofit Organization

To find and attract major donors to your nonprofit organization, you need a long-term strategy and a great way to make your organization stand out.
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How to Attract Good Publicity for Historic Preservation by Thinking Like a Journalist

Preservation is very much about people, and many reporters are looking for human-interest stories that inspire others. Learn how to create those stories.
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How to Use Multimedia Content to Share Your Historic Preservation Message

Many tools are available to help your historic preservation group produce and share rich and engaging multimedia content on the web.
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Designating Landmarks and Creating Historic Districts

Chapter 5: Preservation Commission Operations, Page 4 of 6
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How to Pursue Grant Funding for Your Historic Preservation Group

Grant funding is readily available for historic preservation organizations that are willing to put in some hard work.
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How to Make the Most of Meager Resources in Your Nonprofit Organization

Investing in your resources wisely is the key to maximizing your budget. Learn which resources are worth the money.
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How to Make Staffing Decisions for Your Historic Preservation Organization

As your historic preservation organization grows, you may face big decisions about how to accomplish your growing workload.
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Appeals Process and Enforcement

Chapter 7: Preservation Commission Processes, Page 3 of 3
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How to Prepare a Media Packet to Share at Your Historic Preservation Events

A media packet will help your historic preservation group communicate your message to members of the media who attend your events.
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How to Target Government Outreach Efforts to the Right People

Government Relations for Historic Preservation Advocates, Part 2 of 2
Learn how elected officials get their information so you can target your group's outreach to the right people
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How to Plan a Publicity Event for Your Historic Preservation Group

Organizing a Publicity Event, Part 2 of 2
Learn how to plan the details to ensure your historic preservation group's event is a success.
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How to Obtain Tax-Exempt Status for Your New Nonprofit Organization

Before you can officially call your organization a "nonprofit," you must apply for tax-exempt status with the IRS.

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