Thirty-One New Field Representatives Hired
In 1997, the National Trust Northeast Office and the Preservation Trust of Vermont began their field services partnership program with traveling
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| Partners in the Field Representatives met for the first time as a group at the National Preservation Conference in Tulsa in October 2008. |
specialists providing on-the-ground technical assistance to local preservation groups and projects. Several larger preservation organizations, such as Landmarks Foundation of Indiana, had regional field offices that offered assistance, but in many areas of the country it was tough to get preservation specialists to visit local communities and give on-site help. By 2008, there were six preservation field representatives, working in collaborations between the National Trust Regional Offices and statewide organizations, in Vermont, Connecticut, New Hampshire, and Michigan.
Now the approach has taken an unprecedented leap forward, thanks to the National Trust’s new Partners in the Field Grant program. In the first round of funding, announced in February 2008, Partners in the Field grants went to the following 24 organizations, which have hired these new field representatives:
- APVA Preservation Virginia - Sonja Ingram
- Bosco-Milligan Foundation, OR - Cathy Galbraith and Val Ballestrem
- Center for Desert Archaeology, AZ - Andy Laurenzi
- Cleveland Restoration Society, OH - Sara Hobbs
- Galveston Historical Foundation, TX - Matthew Farragher
- Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation - Jordan H. Poole
- Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia - Justin Sanders
- Historic Augusta, GA - Robyn Mainor
- Historic Boston, Inc./Boston Preservation Alliance, MA - Erica Lindamood and Shelby Graham
- Historic Denver, CO - Alice Gilbertson, Eriqa Warzel, and Mike Webber
- Historic Hawaii Foundation - Katie Kastner
- Historic Savannah Foundation, GA - Jessica Pedigo
- Knox Heritage, TN - Ethiel Garlington
- Los Angeles Conservancy, CA- Karina Muniz
- Michigan Historic Preservation Network - Deborah Odette and Nan Taylor
- Missouri Preservation - Bill Hart
- Montana Preservation Alliance - Kate Hampton
- Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, PA - Melissa Jest
- Preservation Alliance of Minnesota - Erin Hanafin Berg
- Preservation Maryland - (TBA)
- Preservation Massachusetts - Dorr Fox, Anne Dodge, and Michele Barker
- Preservation North Carolina - Elizabeth Sappenfield
- Preservation Pennsylvania - David Kimmerly and Erin Hammerstedt
- Preserve Rhode Island - Susanna Prull
These versatile professionals will provide direct assistance to communities, nonprofit organizations, and owners of historic properties through correspondence, site visits, public presentations, testimony, workshops, conferences and seminars, and special projects.
A second round of grant recipients will be announced in February 2009, with more new hires to follow.
