Landmarks Illinois is now accepting nominations for the 2023 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards.
Donor Name: Landmarks Illinois
State: Illinois
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Award
Deadline: 06/01/2023
Details:
The annual awards program honors outstanding preservation projects, individuals, organizations, and advocacy efforts that demonstrate a strong commitment to protecting the places that matter to the people and communities of Illinois. The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation has generously underwritten Landmarks Illinois’ annual preservation awards program since 1994.
Winners of the 2023 Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards will be selected from the following general categories:
- Advocacy: An effective local or statewide campaign to preserve and protect a historic resource.
- Communication/Publications
- Community Effort/Grassroots Campaign
- Education/Programming
- Leadership: Individual, municipality, private organization or joint partnership that has championed historic preservation, planning or public policy.
- Emerging Leader
- Professional
- Legislator
- Volunteer
- Lifetime Achievement
- Preservation: Projects that make possible the continued use of historic commercial/industrial buildings, multi-family/affordable housing residences, public/institutional structures or preserves a cultural heritage site.
- Adaptive Use
- Cultural Heritage Conservation
- Rehabilitation
- Restoration
- Stabilization
- Stewardship
- Environmental Sustainability: Mitigation of climate change through preservation technologies.
Eligibility Criteria
- Nominated projects must have been completed within the geographical boundaries of Illinois within the last five years. Phased projects may be considered if the nominated phase is complete and can stand on its own merits.
- Additionally:
- Nominations may be submitted in someone’s honor and/or without the knowledge of the nominee
- Self-nominations will be accepted
- Nominations that were not selected for awards in a previous year may be revised and resubmitted, provided the five-year time limit has not been exceeded.
Judging Process and Criteria
- Landmarks Illinois invites a jury of preservation professionals to review nominations for the Landmarks Illinois Richard H. Driehaus Preservation Awards. Landmarks Illinois strives to achieve balanced representation from various preservation disciplines throughout the state.
- The nominees and projects that most closely emulate Landmarks Illinois’ values and Guiding Principles in preservation will receive the greatest consideration.
- Nominations are also judged on the following:
- Impact a project or person has had on an Illinois community
- Quality and degree of difficulty of the project
- Degree to which the project serves as an example of excellence in historic preservation and influences others
- Degree to which the project aligns with Landmarks Illinois’ mission of People Saving Places for People.
- Degree to which the project or person supports diversity, equity, inclusion, justice, and/or environmental sustainability
- Innovative solutions to preservation including, but not exclusive to: Creative partnerships or community engagement efforts, original programming, job creation or economic development, innovative adaptive reuse, best practices in sustainability or technologies that mitigate climate change, cultural sustainability or heritage conservation, and/or creative financing or funding sources.
For more information, visit Landmarks Illinois.
