What You Can Do

How-To Guide

• Identify Partners & Assemble a Team
• Planning & Scheduling
• Financial Management & Fundraising
• Develop a Good Program
• Logistics Planning
• Recruit & Manage Participants
• Share your story!

You have the power to plan and execute a youth summit.

A Youth Summit is ideally a public-private partnership event, but there's no one way to jumpstart it. A Youth Summit may be formed by an individual with a dream, a non-profit of any size, a National Park Service team, or state and local government offices.

To help people new to the model, the National Park Service offers a detailed guide for putting together a successful event of any size from its early planning stages to its post-summit evaluation.

^{The National Park Service supported the development of a Youth Summits guide in partnership with the National Conference of State Historic Preservation Officers. The content for "Organizing a Youth Summit" was prepared by Ann Alexander Pritzlaff, Preservation and Policy Consultant and Colorado Preserve America Youth Summit Director, with input from Michelle Pearson, Colorado Youth Summit Teacher Liaison and 2011 Colorado Teacher of the Year, and Shannon Haltiwanger, Public Affairs and Communications Director, History Colorado. This guide is intended as a “How-To” and to inspire historic preservation organizations, educational or service groups, government agencies, and related entities to organize and produce Youth Summits in their areas.}