Resource Library
The Partners Network aims to provide opportunities for organizations to connect, share best practices, and increase efficiency. This resource library includes links to organizations and resource materials on a variety of topics. It is not meant to be exhaustive and will continue to grow over time. If you know of something that should be added, feel free to share it with the Executive Director.
Affordable Housing & Density
Basics
- Landmarks Illinois, The Relevancy Guidebook
- Measuring Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation
- National Center for Preservation Technology & Training, Preservation Matters
- National Historic Preservation Act
- National Park Service, Historic Preservation
- National Park Service, Preservation Briefs
- National Preservation Institute: Economic Impacts of Historic Preservation references
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: Preservation & Economics
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: Basic Preservation Procedures
Cemeteries & Burial Grounds
- Association for Gravestone Studies
- Grave Matters: The Preservation of African-American Cemeteries
- Mourning Glory: Preserving Historic Cemeteries
- National Park Service: Cemetery Preservation
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: Preserving Historic Burial Grounds
- Preservation Brief 48: Preserving Grave Markers in Historic Cemeteries
- Preserving African American Historic Places
Climate Change, Adaptation, & Mitigation
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Climate Heritage Network
- FEMA’s Integrating History Property and Culture Resource Considerations into Hazard Mitigation Planning
- Keeping History Above Water
- National Park Service
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: Developing Sustainability Guidelines for Historic Districts
- Preservation Priorities Task Force
- Realizing the Energy Efficiency Potential of Small Buildings
- Saving Windows, Saving Money
- Union of Concerned Scientists
- Weather it Together (Annapolis, MD)
Disaster Preparedness & Recovery
- FEMA: Assistance for Governments and Private Non-Profits After a Disaster
- FEMA: Hazard Mitigation Planning
- The Heritage Emergency National Task Force
- Main Street America: Disaster Preparedness and Resilience
- National Trust for Historic Preservation: Treatment of Flood-Damaged Older and Historic Buildings
Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion
- African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
- Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation
- Black in Historic Preservation
- Latinos in Heritage Conservation
- National Association of Tribal Historic Preservation Officers
- National Collaborative for Women’s History Sites
- National Park Service’s Publications on Diverse and Inclusive History
- Rainbow Heritage Network
Easements
Industrial Heritage
- Historic Bridges
- Library of Congress, HABS/HAER/HALS
- National Park Service, Heritage Documentation Programs
- National Park Service, National Heritage Areas
- Society for Industrial Archaeology
- Society for the Preservation of Old Mills
Grants & Tax Credits
Landscapes
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Traditional Cultural Landscapes: Addressing the challenges of protecting Native American cultural landscapes
- Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training: Historic Landscapes
- National Park Service Landscape Preservation
- Olmsted Center for Landscape Preservation
- NCPTT: Landscape Preservation
- Protecting Cultural Landscapes: Planning, Treatment and Management of Historic Landscapes, Preservation Brief #36, National Park Service
- Scenic America
Law
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- IRS Guidance for Nonprofits
- National Park Service collection of historic preservation-related laws, including NEPA, 4(f), NAGPRA, and more
- Section 106
Moderns & Recent Past
Organizational Development
- Board Development for Nonprofit Organizations
- BoardSource
- Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
- Creating a Fundraising Plan
- “Do-It-Yourself Sabbatical Guide for Nonprofits, with Sample Policies” (Durfee Foundation)
- National Council of Nonprofits
- Planning to Succeed: Preparing a Business Plan for Your Nonprofit Organization
- Third Sector New England
Planning
- American Planning Association
- Building Codes and Historic Buildings
- Developing Sustainability Guidelines for Historic Districts
- National Association of Preservation Commissions
- Planners Web
- Preserving African American Historic Places
- Regulating New Construction in Historic Districts
- SmartGrowth America
- Sprawl Busters
- Urban Land Institute
Preservation Podcasts
Preservation Trades & Workforce Development
- Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, Traditional Trades Training
- Campaign for Historic Trades
- HistoriCorps
- National Center for Preservation Technology and Training
- National Park Service Historic Preservation Training Center
- National Trust for Historic Preservation, HOPE Crew
- Preservation Priorities Task Force
- Preservation Trades Network
- Timber Framers Guild
- Window Preservation Alliance
Rural Preservation
- American Farmland Trust
- The Association for Living Historical Farms and Agricultural Museums
- National Barn Alliance
- National Park Service
- New Hampshire Preservation Alliance
- Paul Bruhn Historic Revitalization Grants Program (NPS)
- Preservation Trust of Vermont, Community Supported Enterprises
- Strengthening Southern Vermont
- Timber Framers Guild
- USDA Rural Information Center