News from our Members

• Virtual Visits: Ideas from the INTO Family
  See the world’s sites from your sofa with these 14 virtual visits, selected from amongst the responses to World Heritage Day. We asked and you responded, sharing drone-shot footage, online tours and virtual walk-throughs that together show how heritage trusts globally are responding to COVID-19. 1 The sun is out for this visit to a Valencian garden, ...
• Grants Now Available: African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
  The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund provides grants ranging from $50,000 to $150,000. Last year, 22 projects received a total of $1.6 million dollars, with projects spanning the US, from the African Meeting House in Boston to Historic Westside in Las Vegas. These grants are designed to advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places ...
• Canada to Cornwall: the INTO network in action
  Operational expertise from England advising the National Trust for Canada In July 2019, Assistant Director of Operations Nick Lawrence, based at the National Trust in Cornwall, travelled to Canada with an INTO grant. His mission was to share expertise in property acquisition and operational strategy. The request came from Natalie Bull, CEO of the National Trust for ...
• PastForward Preservation Conference Comes to Denver in 2019
  Register today for the premier educational and networking event for those who are passionate about saving places, PastForward 2019, October 10-12 in Denver. PastForward creates an unmatched opportunity to network, learn, and be inspired. Combining both the practical and the aspirational, it’s the place this fall to gather with your peers across the country to ask ...
• Register for Preservation Law Conference, June 25, DC – In Person or Virtually
  Join leading preservation attorneys, scholars, and professionals for the latest developments and trends in historic preservation law. Continuing Legal Education (CLE) credits and virtual attendee options available. Register today.
• Princess Dana to speak at ICNT
  Princess Dana Firas is to join the stellar line-up of speakers at next month’s ICNT in Bermuda. President of the Petra National Trust, Jordan’s oldest national non-governmental organisation in the field of heritage protection and preservation, she has been working for more than two decades to promote cultural heritage preservation, education and sustainable development in ...
• Online Learning: Ensuring Perpetuity: Effective Easement (Covenant) Monitoring
  Date & Time: March 13, 2019 from 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm ET (1:00 pm – 2:00 pm MT) NOTE: In much of the world easements are known as Covenants.  They are essentially the same thing. Full Description: Monitoring is a critical component of a preservation organization’s easement program. While regular monitoring is important to establish a ...
• Preservation Leadership Forum: Upcoming Trainings
  Learn more about the following Preservation Leadership Trainings® at Forum.SavingPlaces.org/conferences-training: ReImagining Intersections at Historic Sites (Feb.27-Mar. 1, Washington, D.C.) will provide attendees with the tools and strategies to center underrepresented stories at historic sites; Telling the Full History at Our Historic Sites (Mar. 27, Hartford, CT) will offer strategies and tools to understand, interpret, and ...
• TrustLive: Resaving Saved Places Livestream (Feb. 5) — no cost to virtually attend
  Is a place ever truly saved? Fifty years after the passage of the National Historic Preservation Act and decades since we secured the future of places like Larimar Square in Colorado and the Ashley River Road near Charleston, we find ourselves revisiting familiar places confronting new threats. Resaving Saved Places will feature a keynote by ...
• The World Travel and Tourism Council announces 2019 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards finalists
  The World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) is delighted to announce the 15 finalists for its 2019 Tourism for Tomorrow Awards. The 2019 finalists are organised into the following new categories: Climate Action, Investing in People, Destination Stewardship, Social Impact and Changemakers. The Changemakers Award will put a special spotlight on fighting the illegal wildlife trade ...
• Preservation Leadership Forum is hosting two free webinars in January
  Preservation Leadership Forum is hosting two free webinars in January—Opportunity Zones and the Preservation Community< on January 17 and Rosenwald Schools GIS Project on January 30. Visit Forum.SavingPlaces.org/forum-webinar for more details.
• Videos from the November PastForward conference in San Francisco now posted
  Watch select programming from last year’s PastForward conference in San Francisco on the #PastForward18 YouTube Playlist. The playlist includes the TrustLive presentations, which kicked off conversations around the main PastForward 2018 themes: the culture-nature connection, intangible heritage, and resilience. Videos of the awards presentations, as well as the Opening and Closing remarks are available on the playlist.
• Preservation Awards: Call for Nominations
  Nominate a Deserving Individual, Organization, or Project Now! The call for nominations for the 2019 National Preservation Awards is now open. Honor the people, places, and organizations making a difference and submit your nominations by February 1. Award categories include: Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards: Celebrating the “best of the best” in preservation projects. The Louise du ...
• Zanzibar Stone Town Heritage Society (ZSTHS)
  Zanzibar Stone Town Heritage Society (ZSTHS) is a non-governmental Organization registered in Zanzibar in July, 2002. The main activity of the Organization is to preserve and conserve the Zanzibar Stone Town, which is a world heritage site, approved by UNESCO. The Organization has over 200 members, gaining both recognition and respect locally with government institutions ...
• Petra National Trust
  We are delighted to welcome Petra National Trust to INTO! Petra National Trust (PNT) was established in 1989 as a Jordanian non-governmental organisation, which aims to promote and coordinate Jordanian and international efforts to preserve the unique combination of antiquities, natural environment and human traditions in the Petra region. PNT has worked to bring together people ...
• PastForward Preservation Conference–Livestreaming Nov 13-16
  Virtually Attend the PastForward Preservation Conference for Free PastForward is the premier educational and networking event for those who are passionate about saving places, and if you can’t be there in person in San Francisco, join virtually November 13-16. Select conference programming including the Welcome Address and the Closing Luncheon will be livestreamed. In addition, the ...
• Joining Rempart at the Salon du Patrimoine on 27 October 2018
  We are delighted to have been invited to participate in a debate hosted by INTO members, Union REMPART as part of the 2018 International Heritage Fair. Each year, REMPART offers to more than 3,500 people from France and abroad an experience of heritage through participatory, collective and civic action. Because heritage has no borders, REMPART and ...
• HTHP Forum Seeking Articles About Intangible Heritage
  The Preservation Leadership Forum at the National Trust for Historic Preservation is soliciting article submissions for a forthcoming Forum Journal issue dedicated to intangible heritage. In our effort to represent all the histories that comprise the full American story, preservationists are learning how much of what we need to save is intangible. We must find ways ...
• Free Livestreaming with Preservation Leadership Forum
  Upcoming Livestreaming Events: Climate Change and Intangible Heritage Forum would like to invite you to two upcoming livestreaming events on Forum.SavingPlaces.org. Join both of these events online: September 7: The Living Heritage Symposium will gather cultural heritage experts—from policy-makers to activists—working together to develop best practices for the treatment of cultural heritage, including intangible heritage. September 12: The ...
• Preservation Leadership Training Intensive at PastForward Conference, Nov. 13 in San Francisco
  Held during the PastForward Conference in San Francisco, the Preservation Leadership Training (PLT) Intensives on Tuesday, November 13 are day-long, highly-focused, skill-building sessions that are a value-add for the preservation professional. This year there will be a training on the latest in preservation law, as well as a hands-on cultural landscape assessment workshop.  Add a ...
• Register Today and Save for the PastForward Preservation Conference in San Francisco
  Register Today and Save for the PastForward Preservation Conference in San Francisco Register by July 31 and save for the premier educational and networking event for those who are passionate about saving places. This year PastForward will feature iconic San Francisco, but also show you a progressive city that is tackling climate change and urban density ...
• Announcing the Winners of the Schools Cultural Heritage Competition
  Ms Emily Drani, Executive Director and Mr John De Coninck, Programme Advisor from the Cross-Cultural Foundation of Uganda (CCFU) developed a concept for a project reflecting their conviction that we must focus much of our work on the youth and a desire to share the lessons they have learned from their work to support “Heritage ...
• Two-week Summer Preservation Fellow in Pocantico, NY–Applications due Mar 30
  Apply for a Two-Week Preservation Fellowship Applications for the 2018 Pocantico Center Preservation Fellowship are due March 30. This two-week residential fellowship in July at the historic Marcel Breuer House in Pocantico Hills, NY, allows for dedicated time for a defined project with significant benefit to the preservation field. Visit Forum.SavingPlaces.org/Pocantico for complete details and online ...
• Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards Awarded at PastForward Conference
  The National Trust for Historic Preservation recognized its annual series of Preservation Awards recipients last November at the PastForward Conference in Chicago. Among the award categories is the coveted Richard H. Driehaus Foundation National Preservation Awards, which recognize and celebrate the country’s best preservation projects—projects that highlight cutting-edge preservation approaches or technologies. This is the highest national recognition bestowed ...