Advocating for Historic Preservation: Session Resources
National Historic Preservation Advocacy Week
Takes place each March in Washington D.C.
Erin Berg, Rethos, is listed as the State Coordinator for Minnesota, although MN SHPO has assumed this role for the past several years
One-Pagers are used to highlight the preservation work in each MN district and the “ask” for preservation funding and other federal policy improvements, such as for the federal Historic Tax Credit Program.
Historic Preservation Fund
Congress established the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF) in 1976. The establishment of the HPF was one of the key provisions of Public Law 94-422 that amended the NHPA. Modeled after the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the HPF is a trust fund (a mechanism for separate accounting) in the U.S. Treasury that is funded by Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas revenues, authorized at $150 million annually. It was created to be a source of Federal grant funds to encourage non-Federal investment in historic preservation.
Administered by the NPS, HPF program funds are dispersed as grants-in-aid to SHPOs and THPOs that have formally assumed SHPO responsibilities. At least 10 percent of each State’s allocation must be sub-granted to CLGs, those local governments whose preservation programs have been endorsed by the State and NPS as meeting certain criteria. The Save America’s Treasurers program has also been funded from the HPF.
