Calling it a return to the organization’s roots, the Vineyard Trust announced Monday that it would change its name to the Vineyard Preservation Trust.
Calling it a return to the organization’s roots, the Vineyard Trust announced Monday that it would change its name to the Vineyard Preservation Trust.
“This update to our name best reflects our heritage, our mission and our future,” executive director Nevette Previd said in a press release.
Formerly the Martha’s Vineyard Preservation Trust, the name was changed to the Vineyard Trust in 2018 when the nonprofit was rebranded.
The most recent name change takes place under the leadership of Ms. Previd, who took the helm as the new executive director last month.
The preservation trust owns and manages 20 historic buildings around the Island, including the Old Whaling Church, the Flying Horses carousel and Alley’s General Store.
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The original name was "The
Jane Chittick, CFRE Amelia Island, FloridaThe original name was "The Martha's Vineyard Historical Preservation Society". Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr (who had purchased and thereby saved the Dr. Daniel Fisher House) filed for a tax-exempt nonprofit organization and placed the Fisher House into that fledging tax-exempt organization. Two years later, the MacKenty family gave their Vincent House to the same entity. However, the IRS rules dictate that to be granted permanent tax-exempt nonprofit status, the provisional organization has only five years in which to prove that it was being supported by many people (not one or a few) and could prove it had attained one-third funding from the general public, which it had not done. Therefore Mr. Dickinson and a few friends decided to work to secure broad support so the Society could be permanently tax-exempt. I was hired to do that in 1980, just before the five-year provisional status ran out and, fortuitously, the gift of The Old Whaling Church just two months after my being hired garnered immense public support and "saved" the tax-exempt status. The rest is history. And I am relieved that the term "Preservation" is once again back in its name, as it should be forever.
On you go Previd ...your
TRIP BARNES VHOn you go Previd ...your first steps are in the right direction; now get rid of the orange and bring back the dark green
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