[Coalition for Full Funding] 200!
Harbeson, Kristen
Friends:
Last Friday, we passed an important milestone: In just under six months, 200 organizations from 47 states (plus the District of Columbia) have joined the Coalition for Full Funding! With what is becoming a pretty serious number of supporters, our message is beginning to make some headway in the halls of Congress. More on that in a minute, but first, we thought it would be a good idea to check in and get some information to find out a little bit more about who you are.
Please take a moment to go to our very brief (just nine questions) surveymonkey survey. It should take you only take you about 5 minutes to complete. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/2RXCFJY
And now an update:
On Friday, the White House hosted a conference to kick off the America’s Great Outdoors initiative – a major initiative of the Department of the Interior, which houses the Historic Preservation programs as well as the other programs of the National Parks system. The initiative establishes a conservation agenda for the 21st century, with three chief goals:
1) Private land conservation;
2) Improving and restoring public lands;
3) Connecting citizens, especially in cities, with the outdoors.
The audience heard from Ken Salazar, Secretary of the Interior, Tom Vilsack, Secretary of Agriculture, Nancy Sutley, Chair, Council on Environmental Quality, and Lisa Jackson, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency. Secretary Salazar once referenced historic sites and cultural resources, and asked a question about historic preservation.
As it stands, now, the program includes a goal of fully funding the Land and Water Conservation Fund, the much larger sister fund to the Historic Preservation Fund, but nothing was mentioned about fully funding the HPF. Over the next few months, there will be a series of listening sessions across the country – we have our work cut out for us to make preservation’s voice heard at these sessions! We’ll keep you posted as these sessions are scheduled, and encourage you to attend so that the decision makers will hear the message that historic preservation, and the Historic Preservation Fund, are important and should be central to this landmark program!
You can read the President’s Remarks to the Conference as well as his Memorandum on America’s Great Outdoors by clicking here: http://www.fullyfundhpf.org/home/legislation
For more information on America’s Great Outdoors, click here: http://www.doi.gov/whatwedo/outdoors/
As always, please don’t hesitate to contact me if I can be of any assistance, and thank you for all you to for the preservation of our nation’s heritage and your support of the Coalition for Full Funding.
Best,
Kristen
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Kristen Harbeson
State Services Director
National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers
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