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Solving the Workforce Development Puzzle
Join us on Thursday, October 27, 2022 as we attend the Symposium: Solving the Workforce Development Puzzle, hosted by the Maryland Center for Construction Education and Innovation (MCCEI) and the University of Maryland’s Project Management Center for Excellence. ...
TTAP Spotlight: Emma & Ben
The Campaign for Historic Trades and Preservation Maryland visited Fort McHenry National Monument & Historic Shrine on August 23, to speak to the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Training Center Traditional...
The Campaign is “In the Streets” in Frederick, MD
This past Saturday, September 10, Preservation Maryland staff attended the “In the Streets” festival in Frederick, MD. Our partner, the National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center drew a crowd with their log hewing demonstration using traditional...
Camp NAWIC: An opportunity for young women to learn about the trades
In August, The Campaign for Historic Trades and partner National Park Service’s Historic Preservation Training Center staff spent a day teaching historic trades skills to young women at the National Association of Women in Construction‘s Camp NAWIC Baltimore, hosted...
A New VISTA Joins the Team
Did you know? Each year, a new AmeriCorps VISTA member joins The Campaign to help its mission to expand and strengthen careers in the historic trades. "VISTA" is actually an acronym for "Volunteers In Service To America." This national program places individuals with...
Harrison Goodall Grant Recipient Shares Experience
The Harrison Goodall Grant for Innovative Historic Preservation offers graduate students and enterprising professionals the opportunity to undertake a focused pursuit that makes a meaningful contribution to the field of historic preservation. Without an advanced...
Show Your Support for TTAP with New WPA-Inspired Posters!
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. Over its eight years of existence, the WPA put roughly 8.5 million Americans to...
Resources for LGBTQ+ Inclusion in the Trades
The Campaign is dedicated to making the construction and trades industry an inclusive and welcoming career field for everyone. A 2021 Gallup Poll found that 7.1% of adults in the United States identify as LGBT.[1] US construction labor data does not track people’s...
A VISTA Goes to IPTW
Hello everyone! My name is Jordan Riggs, and for the last 10 months, I have been a part of Preservation Maryland’s program The Campaign for Historic Trades as an AmeriCorp VISTA. While I have had many different projects since I joined the team, I wanted to take this...
Cemetery Workshop Series Continues, with Support of Local Volunteers
Preservation Maryland’s 2022 Cemetery Preservation Workshops have begun! This series of workshops, which is generously funded through a grant from Rural Maryland Council and support from Preservation Maryland’s 2021 Save a Grave Campaign, introduces workshop...
Join the Team! AmeriCorps VISTA position opening with The Campaign for Historic Trades
The Campaign for Historic Trades is looking for a passionate, adventurous, and driven individual for a 12-month term position, hired through the Conservation Legacy Stewards AmeriCorps VISTA Program. This person will help The Campaign’s efforts to register...
Career Mapping in Historic Preservation: Where Can Historic Trades Take You?
As part of our mission to expand and strengthen careers in our field, the Campaign for Historic Trades is working to provide prospective tradespeople with clear career pathways and a broader understanding of the career opportunities that exist within historic...
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