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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Dogged Determination Saves Historic Chippewa Falls Building

Sustained Community Effort Turns a 1907 High School Building into a Thriving Arts Center
Learn how a historic preservation group dealt with setbacks and conflicts to turn a deteriorating school building into a successful arts center
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Public Relations Campaign Saves Madison's Historic State Street Buildings

A Positive Message and Multifaceted Campaign Saves the Historic Buildings
A positive and reasonable message was the key to saving historic buildings on the city of Madison's famed State Street.
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Uncommon Partnership Saves Historic Bowstring Bridges

Preservationists, Hunters, and Government Officials Coordinate Efforts to Spare Bridges from Demolition
An unlikely partnership of preservationists, hunters, and government officials spare historic bridges from demolition.
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Wisconsin Preservationists Achieve Fundraising Success Through Resourcefulness and Ingenuity

With resourcefulness and ingenuity, Wisconsin’s historic preservationists have raised millions of dollars to protect the state's historic past.

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