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About the Heritage Philadelphia Program
The Heritage Philadelphia Program (HPP) supports history programs and the historic preservation of buildings in the Philadelphia region. Support is provided through grant funding and professional development activities that inspire innovation and build organizational capacity. The purpose of the Heritage Philadelphia Program is to encourage and enhance humanities-based programming, grounded in contemporary scholarship, to attract and engage new audiences and local residents in Philadelphia’s nationally important history.
HPP focuses organizational efforts on strategic planning, audience and market research, community-based interpretive planning and visionary exhibition development.
HPP supports history programs and historic preservation of buildings in the Philadelphia region through grant funding and professional development activities. Grant funding is available for planning and implementation activities related to interpretation, exhibits and preservation. Grant counseling is available at any time to potential applicants. For more information, please see Apply for a Grant.
If you have questions or would like more information about HPP, please contact us at hpp@pcah.us or 267-350-4950.
Stories from the Paul Robeson House: Lives Touched by a Renaissance Man
This book, with accompanying CD, was launched by HPP and MIP on October 20; it is collection of interviews with individuals reflecting on Paul Robeson’s influence in their lives.
HPP Scholars Announced
Heritage Philadelphia Program is pleased to announce the recipients of the HPP Scholars awards for 2009. These professional development awards are made to projects that reflect the program’s goals of supporting imaginative practice and advancing the field of public history.
HPP Scholars is intended to support individual practitioners in the investigation of imaginative projects in public history. These small grants support experimental interpretive projects that bring history alive by:
• connecting the present to the past in engaging and innovative ways,
• responding to audience /community interests or needs,
• demonstrating how history is integrally related to contemporary life and culture in all its breadth and diversity.
Our Blog
Please visit the HPP blog at heritagephila.blogspot.com.
Why a Blog?
Staff of the Heritage Philadelphia Program hope that this blog will be a forum for building community, propagating ideas, and thrashing out effective and imaginative practices within the region’s history community. We hope that this blog will clearly communicate the goals and values of the program to our constituents and become a vehicle for honest assessment and dynamic discussion of current issues in public history.