Welcome to the Funding section, offered to you by the Resources Development and Historic Sites departments of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Here you will find information that has been chosen and developed to help you in your efforts to raise funds in support of your historic site. As with all things internet-y, this is a changing and growing resource. We hope you will visit often to makes use of the resources we plan to add in the future. We also invite your comments, suggestions, content submissions, and requests to help us provide information that will be of the greatest benefit to you.
- Letters | Here you’ll find sample of letters for a number of development tasks.
- NTHP Funding for National Trust Historic Sites | Historic Sites Fund, Interpretation & Education Fund, Favrot, and Mitchell
- Foundations | Here you’ll get a brief overview to foundation grant-making and links to a number of helpful resources
- Federal Grants | Connect to federal agencies’ websites and view a month-by-month calendar of deadlines for sites-related grants
- Special Events | See how other historic sites have successfully used special events to raise funds
- Planned Giving | Planned gifts are not just for wealthy people. They are an excellent opportunity for people of modest means to make a significant gift to a site they love.
