Partners in the Field Challenge Grants

Partners in the Field is a new challenge grant program for National Trust's Statewide and Local Partners to strengthen and expand their capacity to deliver on-the-ground preservation field services. 

Cleveland Restoration Society Brick Workshop

Cleveland Restoration Society plans to sponsor more group learning activities like this workshop for historic homeowners. Courtesy of CRS.
 

Funded through a generous $5 million challenge gift to National Trust for Historic Preservation from the Robert W. Wilson Charitable Trust, the grants are matched by contributions from local donors and foundations.

Twenty-four grants, totaling $3 million, were awarded in February 2008 in the first round of the new program. A second grant round will begin in fall 2008.

Round One grant awards went to:

  • APVA Preservation Virginia, $105,000, to provide hands-on technical assistance in local communities throughout Virginia;
  • Bosco-Milligan Foundation (Portland OR), $150,000, to launch a new initiative of field services and technical assistance to meet critical preservation challenges in Portland;
  • Center for Desert Archaeology (Tucson), $111,500, to expand the scope of historic preservation and conservation easement programs across the Southwest;
  • Cleveland Restoration Society, $147,000, to provide preservation assistance and access to low-interest rehabilitation loans to homeowners throughout Northeast Ohio and statewide;
  • Galveston Historical Foundation, $147,000, to educate the public to better prepare for natural disasters, work with lead-based paint and increase energy efficiency in historic buildings;
  • Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, $140,000, to preserve more historic buildings, houses and structures throughout Georgia and use preservation field services as a catalyst for economic development;
  • Heritage Alliance of Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia, $70,000, to expand field services to address unmet needs for hands-on preservation technical assistance;
  • Historic Augusta (GA), $120,000, to provide expanded field services in the Greater Augusta area that incorporates preservation into community planning and development;
  • Historic Boston, Inc., and Boston Preservation Alliance, $150,000, to collaborate in providing comprehensive neighborhood outreach and preservation services to 19 Boston Main Streets districts;
  • Historic Denver, Inc., $122,000, to offer technical support and preservation services to historic communities and homeowners in Denver and its first ring suburbs;
  • Historic Hawaii Foundation, $150,000, to deliver on-site technical preservation assistance and information services to rural and isolated communities on each of the major islands;
  • Historic Savannah Foundation (GA), $90,000, to work with city government to bring preservation field services and technical expertise to underserved, threatened historic residential neighborhoods;
  • Knox Heritage (TN), $97,500, to provide preservation field services in a nine-county Greater Knoxville region and increase regional preservation activities;
  • Los Angeles Conservancy, $140,000, to expand historic preservation work and foster community-based preservation leadership in Los Angeles' Latino community;
  • Michigan Historic Preservation Network, $75,000, to support a new, full-time preservation field representative working throughout the state, including the Upper Peninsula;
  • Missouri Preservation, $125,000; to provide direct preservation field services and technical support throughout the state of Missouri;
  • Montana Preservation Alliance, $150,000, to expand Most Endangered activities into a grassroots preservation program in collaboration with other state and national partners;
  • Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, $150,000, to provide expanded preservation services to African American neighborhood organizations and homeowners;
  • Preservation Alliance of Minnesota, $110,000, to deliver preservation information and provide technical assistance throughout the state of Minnesota;
  • Preservation Maryland, $120,000; to provide expanded preservation field services to communities on Maryland's Eastern Shore;
  • Preservation Massachusetts, $127,500, to expand preservation field services to Southeastern Massachusetts, Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket;
  • Preservation North Carolina, $125,000, to establish full-time urban preservation services and work on preservation issues in North Carolina’s capital city, Raleigh;
  • Preservation Pennsylvania, $150,000, to provide direct technical assistance and hands-on preservation expertise to communities throughout Pennsylvania;
  • Preserve Rhode Island, $127,500, to establish an on-the-ground field services program in Rhode Island.

 Partners in the Field Press Release

 

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