The Piedmont Area Preservation Alliance, formally declared on September 13, 2007, at Blenheim, an historic estate in Albemarle County and part of the Southwest Mountains Rural Historic District, exists to sustain the cultural and ecological resources of Central Virginia, and thus to safeguard an element essential to the region’s well-being. We manifest that commitment by:
Meeting twice annually to recommit to our common mission and to establish yearly preservation and conservation priorities:
- These meetings will be planned and organized by a Steering Committee to which all member organizations may voluntarily send a delegate
Building a mutually-maintained communications network to:
- Notify one another of endangered places requiring immediate political or private action to save
- Enable coordinated advocacy campaigns united around agreed-upon core preservation and conservation issues
- These campaigns would be undertaken only by those member organizations that are chartered to take up advocacy. Other organizations may belong to the Alliance, but refuse any association with its political advocacy mission, using it only to advance educational goals
- These campaigns would be undertaken only by those member organizations that are chartered to take up advocacy. Other organizations may belong to the Alliance, but refuse any association with its political advocacy mission, using it only to advance educational goals
- Share our organizational proceedings and our organizational news
- Better publicize the successful conservation, rehabilitation, or restoration of a cultural or natural resource
- Work toward a ‘Preservation Week’ proclaiming the value of local public, non-profit-owned, and private historic buildings and landscapes and offering the general public an enhanced opportunity to tour such properties
This communications network would consist of:
- A weblog to which a representative of each member organization could post news, photographs, and commentary
- An electronic mail group to which a representative of each member organization could send a single message to all other organizational representatives
We of the Piedmont Area Preservation Alliance aspire to speak more clearly, and with one voice, for preservation and conservation in Central Virginia.
