Saving Our Heritage: The Irreplaceable Assets Campaign

Everyday, the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance works with communities and homeowners, architects and planners, volunteers and enthusiasts, activists and policymakers to save our heritage and make a difference in our quality of life. Our knowledgeable staff and network partners can provide resources to help homeowners and citizens in caring  for an older home or creating a heritage commission. We provide our preservation services to help assess a barn's foundation or to plan for the future of a community landmark. 

Our Irreplaceable Assets Campaign and the resulting endowment funds will provide a reliable income source to supplement annual funding of our core programs.  This funding will help the Preservation Alliance respond more quickly to our state's immediate needs and build the capacity of the Alliance for future years.  Three new endowed funds will address the primary preservation needs of Granite Staters.

1. The Preservation Services Fund

This new endowment fund will further our preservation services such as the hands-on coaching and resources provided by the shared field service program (in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation) and our small grants program. This financial assistance is the backbone of our service program, providing community groups and historic property owners with matching dollars to hire preservation consultants with the right expertise and planning strategies to get a project started. From Acworth's Town Hall to the North Country treasure, the Poore Family Farm, to the recent save of the Epsom Meetinghouse, the Preservation Alliance has been an important partner working to help save community landmarks.

2. The Preservation Policy Fund

This new fund will ensure that advocates of preservation have a strong voice and that proactive preservation policies are in place to support individual and community efforts to protect New Hampshire's heritage. The Preservation Alliance will continue to advance initiatives like the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP) and barn tax incentives which have benefited more than 140 communities to date. The Preservation Policy Fund promises a continued focus on up-to-date data and models for good decision-making at the local, state and national levels.

3. The New Ventures Fund

The New Hampshire Preservation Alliance has an outstanding record of growth, with consistently balanced budgets and no long-term debt.  Our next step is to provide more Alliance expertise to threatened building types such as historic meetinghouses and older schools.  The New Ventures Fund will enable us to create new services such as training materials, a better website, and resource toolkits.  It will also be available to support investments in the organizational development of the Preservation Alliance. 

Together with strong annual support, these three endowed funds will go a long way toward helping meet New Hampshire's growing preservation needs.

How to Contribute

Individuals, families, and businesses can make donations to the Irreplaceable Assets campaign with a pledge over three years.  Gifts may be directed to any of the three permanent funds or made as an unrestricted contribution to be distributed among all the funds.  Donations of cash, securities, charitable remainder trusts, life insurance, real property on a life-tenancy basis, or other deferred gift option are accepted.

Every gift, in any amount, will make a permanent impact in the work of the New Hampshire Preservation Alliance.  Our donors can be assured that their generosity to the Alliance will help protect the irreplaceable assets of New Hampshire for future generations.

Click here to download a pledge form.