The National Trust for Historic Preservation works to save America's diverse historic places and revitalize our communities by providing leadership, education, advocacy and resources.

Our strategies include: -Taking direct action through our National Treasures program to protect a diverse portfolio of America's most important threatened historic places while advancing cutting-edge preservation tools. -Building tomorrow's preservation movement, which will inspire and activate a larger, broader and more diverse movement. -Supporting today's preservation community by advocating, informing and training around national priorities which advance shared goals and strengthen the preservation community.

With more than 60 years of experience, the National Trust is taking direct action to protect places and promote preservation. Our staff, located in our Washington, D. C. , headquarters and in 9 field offices across the country, is comprised of preservation, advocacy, legal, marketing and fund-raising experts. Our work takes many forms: we take direct, on-the-ground action when historic sites are threatened; facilitate public participation in the preservation of nationally-significant sites, buildings, and objects; advocate with decision-makers to save America's heritage; and help sustain vibrant communities. As an organization, we strive to create a cultural legacy that is as diverse as the nation itself so that all of us can take pride in our part of the American story. The National Trust for Historic Preservation utilizes a variety of tools and initiatives to lead the preservation of America's historic and cultural legacies. The cornerstone of our current strategic focus is a growing portfolio of National Treasures – threatened places of national significance where our deep and long term involvement will have positive implications for preservation nationwide.

The National Trust utilizes a work planning tool that clearly defines the organization's mission and strategies to achieve a variety of goals. The tool is used at every level of the organization helping to create benchmarks that align strategic expansion to overall progress throughout the year. We know we are making progress by increasing our efforts in the following areas: -Launching campaigns that help save historic places through comprehensive marketing and preservation efforts -Working to protect our diverse portfolio of America's National Treasures by growing our portfolio of Treasure sites to 100 sites over a five year span -Developing multiple grassroots campaigns to support our preservation priorities -Advancing legislative priorities around the defense of the Historic Tax Credit (HTC), Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), and diversity and cultural resource protection on public lands -Developing community outreach programs that will educate, train and inspire people across the country to support preservation efforts -Providing key legal support of National Treasures and other preservation efforts

The National Trust for Historic Preservation has accomplished the following: -Tackled some of the toughest preservation challenges and won the vast majority of the time with the launching of National Treasure campaigns. -Created a National Treasure portfolio that begins to reflect the diversity of America. More than 40 percent of our National Treasures reflect the history of women and people of color. -Pioneered creative new approaches to site stewardship at our portfolio of 27 National Trust historic sites. Shared these new models nationally, to help the country's 15,000 house museums, many of which are struggling financially. -Trained dozens of young people in the preservation building trades through HOPE Crew program. HOPE Crews have completed millions of dollars in rehab work at more than 60 sites. -Hosted the preeminent annual gathering of preservationists, drawing more than 600 thought leaders in person and hundreds more virtually. -Convened leaders of top national organizations representing diverse constituencies for the 2016 PastForward Conference. -Encouraged rehab and reuse by providing civic leaders in five cities with customized data on how to maximize the use of their historic building stock. -Provided expert consultation that retained, reinstated or improved state historic tax credits in various states. -Advocated successfully to create and continue congressional funding for a competitive grant program that helps state historic preservation offices to include more under-represented communities in their statewide inventories, and on the National Register and National Historic Landmark lists. The National Trust for Historic Preservation has not yet accomplished the following: -Passage of the Prosperity through Preservation/CAPP Act (H. R. 2479/S. 2074) – these efforts are ongoing -We continue working to broaden the scope of our projects and campaigns, to continue building toward a cultural heritage that fully reflects the diversity of America. -We continue exploring new and creative approaches to historic site stewardship. We continue working to educate and inform civic leaders at all levels about the economic and environmental value of building rehab and reuse.