Preservation Chicago: Love Your City Fiercely!
Preservation Chicago leverages the power of historic preservation to transform long-neglected historic assets into the dynamic neighborhood anchors essential for cultivating healthy, vibrant, diverse, and sustainable communities. Our results have been surprising, significant and substantial. We catalyze change.
Vision: Preservation Chicago is committed to strengthening the vibrancy of Chicago’s economy and quality of life by championing our historic built environment.
Mission: Preservation Chicago protects and revitalizes Chicago’s irreplaceable architecture, neighborhoods and urban green spaces. Through advocacy, outreach, education and partnership, we influence stakeholders to pursue creative reuse and preservation-sensitive outcomes.
Impact: Preservation Chicago is the catalyst behind Chicago’s unprecedented surge in high-profile, transformational efforts to recognize, protect, and transform long-neglected historic assets into dynamic neighborhood anchors. The stabilization and revitalization of historic community assets is a proven powerful economic engine to anchor reinvestment and catalyze healthy, sustainable, equitable communities through job creation, heritage tourism, and community wealth building. Additionally, by uplifting culturally significant historic places, the successes and sacrifices of past generations can inspire a more just and equitable future.
Proven Strategy: Our innovative “Leveraged Impact” model of Amplification, Protection, and Investment creates the necessary pre-conditions to enable transformational change. By mobilizing widespread goodwill through extensive media coverage, and deploying robust Chicago Landmark protections against demolition, we create the stability necessary to secure significant public and private philanthropic funding.
Everything we do is pro-bono. Our collective impact has resulted in countless successful outcomes across Chicago.
Join the effort. We recognize that there are many worth causes and organizations to support, but there are few organizations that will result in as high a return on your philanthropic investment.
We seek outcomes-oriented supporters who wish to donate their charitable dollars in a nonprofit that consistently delivers outstanding results. This makes Preservation Chicago one of the best nonprofits in Chicago to support with your charitable dollars. Make a donation today via our secure online portal.
Or join the Preservation Circle. The Preservation Circle provides a critical source of operating funds and Preservation Circle members are given the opportunity to more deeply and directly engage with our preservation advocacy efforts, strategies, and successes.
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Preservation Chicago: Love Your City Fiercely!®
Bravo to Preservation Chicago for earning the best Platinum charity rating seal from Candid / GuideStar. Preservation Chicago also achieved the best 4 star rating from Charity Navigator. These unbiased charity evaluations are among the best and most widely recognized in the nonprofit social sector. The combination of Preservation Chicago’s Candid Platinum Seal and 4 star rating from Charity Navigator’s 4 Star rating, make Preservation Chicago one the top rated nonprofits for donations in Chicago. The combination of the top rating by GuideStar / Candid and Charity Navigator gives confidence to donors that Preservation Chicago is a highly rated charity that you can trust with your philanthropic donations.
Please review Preservation Chicago’s extensive Platinum rated Candid profile and Preservation Chicago’s 4 star Charity Navigator profile to learn more about our vision, mission, best practices, metrics, impacts, and outcome to see if we align with your causes and passions.
Additionally, Preservation Chicago is listed as one of Chicago’s best charities and is featured by GreatNonprofits and Crain’s Chicago Giving Guide which makes Preservation Chicago a top-rated charity for DAF (Donor Advised Fund) donations and a great nonprofit to support with your charitable donations. Preservation Chicago is consistently rated one the best non profit organizations in Chicago based on earning the top rating year after year from the best trusted charity rating organizations including GuideStar / Candid and Charity Navigator. These top ratings are reserved for highly impactful nonprofit organizations that are achieving consistent successful outcomes.
To direct a gift to Preservation Chicago from your donor advised fund, simply share our legal name, address and federal tax ID with your donor advised fund manager. We currently are registered and accept Donor Advised Fund Giving (DAF) from Charles Schwab DAFgiving360, National Philanthropic Trust, Fidelity Charitable, Vanguard Charitable, and The Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund/Merrill Lynch DAF advisors