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Communicate Your Historic Preservation Message

Learn how to make a case for historic preservation and use multiple tools to share your preservation message with different audiences.
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Historic Preservation Advocacy Guide

More than 100 how-to articles to help you learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community.
Learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community with this collection of more than 100 articles.
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Start a Nonprofit Historic 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.
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Fund Your Historic Preservation Organization

Learn skills and strategies to raise funds and discover where to find financial support for your historic preservation organization.
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Organize a Historic Preservation Advocacy Effort

Learn how to organize an effort to preserve historic buildings in your community and influence preservation-related policymaking.
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Find Historic Preservation Commissions in Wisconsin

Historic Preservation Commission List (PDF)
See PDF of contact information for Local Historic Preservation Commissions in Wisconsin. Maintained by the Wisconsin Historical Society..
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About the Historic Preservation Advocacy Guide

Learn how to advocate for the preservation of historic buildings and resources in your community.
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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.
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Heritage and Preservation Caucuses

An Effective Tool to Advocate for Historic Preservation Public Policies
Caucuses offers the structure to create new programs and policies that respond to ever-changing preservation needs.
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Chapter 1: History of Historic Preservation

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Chapter 4: Starting a Preservation Commission

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Historic Preservation Commission Training

Explore this in-depth online training for preservation commissioners.
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National Trust Preservation Funds

National Trust for Historic Preservation
Grants from the National Trust Preservation Funds encourage preservation at the local level by providing seed money for preservation projects.
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Historic Preservation Ordinances

Chapter 4: Starting a Preservation Commission, Page 1 of 5
Feature Story

2020 Historic Preservation Award Winner Announced

The 2020 Historic Preservation Award has been awarded to Daniel Stephans, AIA.
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Preserve Your Homes and Properties

Search the most up-to-date version of the National or State Register of Historic Places and the Society's Architecture and History Inventory.
Find resources for historic preservation efforts, including online training, and access the National or State Register of Historic Places.
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The National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA)

Chapter 1: History of Historic Preservation, Page 3 of 4
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Chapter 2: Preservation Laws and Programs

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Chapter 3: Community Benefits of Preservation

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