Webinars & Workshops – National Preservation Partners Network

Webinars & Workshops

The Providence Preservation Society was awarded a Moe Family Fund grant to offer paid, hands-on five-week job training program in historic window restoration, in partnership with several other Rhode Island entities.

The National Preservation Partners Network (NPPN) offers a variety of webinars, workshops, and other virtual programs throughout the year. Our aim is to provide historic preservation organizations with training, tools, and peer support so they can focus on their missions.

Looking for in-person meetings? Visit our NPPN Member Events page. Additional topical reference material can be found in the Resource Library and for information related to historic property redevelopment visit the Historic Property Redevelopment Programs page.

Join NPPN for Our 2026 Webinar Series

In 2026, the National Preservation Partners Network will host a series of monthly webinars. Alternating between topics on Practical Preservation and Preservation for All, each webinar will feature leaders in the field speaking about topics to help you do your job better, every day. Preservation for All Roundtable webinars will focus on working with underrepresented communities and organizations engaged in historic preservation and are presented with funding support from the Driehaus Foundation.

Webinars are FREE for NPPN members, and $20 for non-members.

Next Up in NPPN’s 2026 Webinar Series

May 27, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

Practical Preservation: Preservation Awards Programs

Preservation awards programs are a useful tool for raising funds, friends, awareness, or all three. Tune in to hear from a panel of experts about a diverse variety of successful models and best practices. Walk away energized with innovative ideas and practical tips on how to make preservation awards program work for your organization.

With:

Andrea Goldwyn, Director, Public Policy, New York Landmarks Conservancy

Danielle Meunier, Preservation Programs Coordinator, The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

Julianne Patterson, Executive Director, Preservation Durham

Nicole Possert, Executive Director, Restore Oregon

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June 24, 1:00-2:30 p.m. ET

Preservation for All Roundtable: Advancing LGBTQ+ Preservation Efforts and Historic Places

LGBTQ+ history is often embedded in everyday places – from bars and community centers to residences and public spaces – but these sites have not always been recognized or preserved. This webinar introduces practical approaches to identifying, researching, and advocating for LGBTQ+ historic places in communities across the country.

Drawing on the work of the NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project and the LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance, the session will highlight strategies for documenting place-based history, building compelling narratives, and navigating local, state, and national designation processes. It will also address key challenges in this work, including terminology, archival research, and the level of documentation often required to support LGBTQ+ histories.

Attendees will gain tools to advance recognition and interpretation of LGBTQ+ historic places in their own communities.

With:

Amanda Davis, Executive Director, NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project

Ken Lustbader, Co-Director, NYC LGBTQ Historic Sites Project and Founder, LGBTQ+ Heritage Alliance

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July 29, 1:00-2:30pm ET

Practical Preservation: Working with AI

As AI tools move rapidly into planning, research, and public engagement workflows, preservation practitioners face a critical choice: adopt uncritically or disengage entirely, and both carry real risks for the communities and places we serve. APIAHiP’s Past Futures initiative was built on the premise that neither posture is sufficient. Through a dedicated Fellow and emerging Lab program, APIAHiP actively tracks AI development to understand its implications for APIA historic places specifically, where training data gaps, biased documentation histories, and corporate product design can quietly reinforce the same erasures that preservation work is meant to correct. This session draws on presentations delivered at statewide preservation conferences to walk practitioners through a critical framework for evaluating AI tools: what questions to ask before adopting a platform, where community knowledge is most at risk of being misrepresented or omitted, and how emerging tools can be shaped (rather than simply used) to better serve underrepresented communities. The goal is not to resolve the debate but to give practitioners the grounding to engage it responsibly.

With:

Huy Pham, Executive Director and Paul Kim, Past Futures Fellow, Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP)

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Recent Webinars

A selection of webinars are linked below. NPPN members have access to the full webinar archive, including a financial planning workshop, via the Member Community Page. Not a member? Join here.

Preservation for All Roundtable: Working with Asian & Pacific Islander American Preservation Organizations & Places with Huy Pham, Executive Director, Asian & Pacific Islander Americans in Historic Preservation (APIAHiP)

This session moves beyond general diversity frameworks to offer preservation practitioners concrete strategies for identifying, engaging, and supporting Asian & Pacific Islander American historic places and communities in their regions. APIAHiP shares field-tested approaches for navigating the real cultural, linguistic, and organizational diversity within APIA communities — from distinctions between East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Pacific Islander, and Native Hawaiian communities to the place-based histories that vary significantly by geography and immigration wave. Leave with practical tools to locate APIA organizations in their service areas, build trust across cultural differences, and apply preservation frameworks that reflect community priorities rather than outside interpretations.

The goal is layered knowledge: APIAHiP brings national network and field experience, and local and state practitioners bring knowledge of their own communities, together building a more complete picture of APIA historic places that are currently underdocumented and underprotected across the country.

Practical Preservation

Partners in Preservation: Preservation Organizations and Historic Zoning Commissions

Watch the webinar for free HERE using the code NPPNMEMBER.

Preservation organizations and historic preservation commissions often share common goals, but their working relationships vary by community. When these partnerships are intentional, they can strengthen advocacy, improve decision making, and lead to better outcomes for historic places. Hosted in partnership with the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC), this webinar highlights successful collaborations between organizations and commissions, sharing real-world examples and practical approaches you can adapt to your own community.

Preservation for All Roundtable: Working with Latinx Preservation Organizations & Places

Speakers:

Sehila Mota Casper – Executive Director, Latinos in Heritage Conservation

Karina Amalbert – Geospatial Project Manager, Latinos in Heritage Conservation

Planning for the Semiquincentennial Celebration

Speakers:

Nicholas Redding – Preservation Maryland

Sarah Hansen – Maine State Archives

2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the founding of the United States of America. This anniversary year presents a wonderful opportunity to educate the public about the role historic preservation plays in celebrating and preserving our nation’s history.

Learn about the programs their organizations are planning for this special year. We hope you’ll be inspired to create programs and celebrations for your own community.