The Heritage Philadelphia Program, a part of The Pew Charitable Trusts, is an organization that emphasizes projects which make the connection between present-day life and the past, making history come alive for audiences,” notes Heritage Philadelphia Program Director Paula Marincola. “This year, we expanded the notion of heritage to include social history, folklore, and civic engagement work as well as other forms of living cultural heritage.”
The Heritage Philadelphia Program funding is awarded annually on a competitive basis, and grant recipients are selected by a distinguished national panel of experts in the fields of museum and historic site management, preservation architecture, exhibitions and interpretive programming.