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If you listen close, you can hear it.
It is the sound of something true and powerful stirring across North Dakota, making waves and making progress. It is the preservation movement, dedicated to "Preserving Prairie Places." Sometimes preservation is a quiet commitment of the heart, but other times it is quite noisy. Hammers, scrapers and happy voices make a din in a prairie church that will stand restored to serve new community needs.  College students crack jokes and make friends as they work alongside local citizens restoring a one room country schoolhouse.
A 1930s WPA community hall finds new life as a general store and a center for internet commerce. Surely you've noticed-North Dakota is undergoing a revival. Country towns have newcomers-artists, professionals, and truck drivers are choosing to make their future here. They find heritage preservation is a significant asset, increasing the quality of life.
Preservation North Dakota obtains some funding from foundations and federal sources, distributing it to local organizations for preservation projects. Preservation North Dakota mobilizes volunteers and experts to help do the work. Preservation North Dakota provides the network of camaraderie whereby people working hard on local projects feel like they are part of something true and powerful-and indeed they are! 
"People across North Dakota are becoming excited about Preservation North Dakota's efforts to inspire grassroots preservation of prairie places."
"They are looking to Preservation North Dakota for leadership and answers to questions. We need to be ready to help." These words are from someone who knows, former Lieutenant Governor Rosemarie Myrdal, herself a community builder. Preservation North Dakota relies on your financial support to ensure that we can continue to offer these programs. "...To be ready to help," as Rosemarie says, we need to build up the organization and do more. It is good to take up our paint-brushes and volunteer. We have to make commitments in our hearts, sure, but we also need you to write checks and contribute financially to help make these projects happen. We ask you for your help. |
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