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<br />AMERICA
<br />Explore and Enjoy Our Heritage
<br />INTRODUCTION
<br />Preserve America is a White House initiative that highlights the efforts of the President and Mrs. Bush to
<br />celebrate and preserve our national heritage. Goals of the initiative include: a greater shared knowledge
<br />about the Nation's past; strengthened regional identities and local pride; increased local participation in
<br />preserving the country's cultural and natural heritage assets; and support for the economic vitality of our
<br />communities. First Lady Laura Bush is Honorary Chair of Preserve America.
<br />The Preserve America Presidential Award is one component of the initiative. The award honors
<br />organizations, businesses, government entities, or individuals for:
<br />• Exemplary accomplishments in sustainable use and preservation of cultural and /or natural heritage
<br />assets;
<br />• Demonstrated commitment to protecting and interpreting America's cultural and /or natural heritage
<br />assets, and the integration of these assets into contemporary community life; and
<br />• Creative and responsible approaches to showcasing heritage assets in their communities.
<br />The Presidential Award celebrates model achievements so that others can learn from them. Each year,
<br />two awards are given for activities advancing heritage tourism and two are given for privately funded
<br />historic preservation projects or programs.
<br />These awards, which are honorific, are presented to winners chosen through a national competition
<br />administered by the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) and the Secretary of the Interior,
<br />in cooperation with other federal agencies and the Executive Office of the President. The President and
<br />Mrs, Bush recognize award recipients at an annual event.
<br />Anyone can submit a nomination. Completed nomination forms and accompanying material must be
<br />postmarked no later than November 1, 2006. Awards will be announced during Preservation Month,
<br />May 2007.
<br />Cove pAotas .t'finwmg ?006 Preserve America PresidenrralAenrd winners and ceremony,, clockwise from top: Budding archaeologists watch field crew,
<br />Mission San Luis an Tallahi¢ see, Florida: Southern Maryland tobacco bane President and Mrs. Bush present 2006 Preserve America Presidential Award in
<br />White House Rose Garden (photo by Kinberlce I Icwitth Volunteers repair the "oWes'I house" in the U.S., Santa Fe, New Mexico; Thomas Point Shoal Lighthouse,
<br />Annapobs, Maryland. from U.S. Lighthouse Society and Barry Pahl; L to R, Mrs Bash, Hampton Holcls' llmnd Performance and Suppori vice president
<br />Scott Douglas Schrank and Brand Management vice president Judy Chri sWCml cy, and the President, in the Oval Office (photo by Eric Duper).
<br />Preserve America
<br />PRESIDENTIAL AWARD 2007
<br />Guidelines
<br />ELIGIBILITY
<br />Any organization, business, government entity, or individual is eligible to receive a Preserve America
<br />Presidential Award. It must be demonstrated that the nominated project, program, or activity was
<br />completed within the last five years, and in existence for at least one year, to prove viability. As
<br />individuals, ACHP members and staff, and U.S. Department of the Interior staff, are not eligible to
<br />receive this award during their employment with those agencies, or for three years thereafter.
<br />CRITERIA
<br />Selection of Preserve America Presidential Award winners will be guided by the following general criteria:
<br />• Outstanding accomplishments in sustainable use and preservation of cultural and/or natural heritage
<br />assets;
<br />• Demonstrated commitment to protecting and interpreting America's cultural and/or natural heritage
<br />assets;
<br />Integration of heritage assets into contemporary community life;
<br />• Creative and responsible approaches to showcasing historic resources in communities that may
<br />include; but are not limited to, successful preservation partnerships, community participation, and
<br />volunteer efforts;
<br />• Model heritage tourism or historic preservation achievement that can apply in a wide range of
<br />circumstances; and
<br />• Significant and demonstrable outcomes —for example, substantial educational and outreach
<br />components, economic benefits compatible with preservation or conservation goals, and noteworthy
<br />advances in heritage tourism or historic preservation practices or technologies.
<br />DEFINITIONS
<br />A nominee is a project, program, activity, or individual.
<br />Cultural and natural heritage assets are physical places—natural and man - made —that are associated
<br />with themes, events, sites, or persons significant in the history of the United States and its territories.
<br />Heritage tourism is the business and practice of attracting and accommodating visitors to a place or
<br />area based especially on the unique or special aspects of that locale's history, landscape (including trail
<br />systems), and culture.
<br />Privately funded historic preservation efforh are those that are predominantly funded and implemented
<br />by private citizens or entities; i.e., more than 50% of the funding comes from non - governmental sources,
<br />and the majority of the work is carried out by private citizens and /or entities. This category may include
<br />historic preservation projects or programs on public property (owned or controlled by a federal, state,
<br />local, or tribal government agency) as long as they are predominantly implemented and financed by
<br />private entities and resources.
<br />NOMINATION PACKAGE
<br />Required documentation.
<br />All nominations must be submitted in a single, one and one -half inch, three -ring binder. This binder must
<br />include the following:
<br />• One original and eight copies of a fully completed, signed, and dated nomination form;
<br />• One original and eight copies of the summary description, up to three pages, that includes the
<br />information specified below; and
<br />• Nine sets of 8 to 12 images, as specified on the next page.
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