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Your donation will support our current and planned initiatives:
CURRENT INITIATIVES:
Help Give Dignity to the Byberry Township African American Burial Ground
This site has no clear representation as a sacred burial ground, defining borders or signage to provide protections for those that are interred here. It is located at the edge of the Benjamin Rush State Park in Northeast Philadelphia, however it is not on park land, it is apparently on City land. This will be a long term initiative, but now that we know about it, we are working on it. Stay tuned or volunteer. Our immediate need will be clearing the weeds and providing a temporary border and temporary signage as soon as we can get permission from the City or unknown owners to do this.
This will be a long term project that may cost hundreds of thousands. We will seek grants to cover the bulk of this cost, except, as noted above for things we can do to oversee the current condition. –
Update Oct 22 – We have been approved for a small grant to develop and interpretation strategy. We are required to come up with a $2500 match. Pease help us out.
Our long term needs are TBD
Update Property Database – We are currently updating and populating database of over 500 properties across the city that have some level of historic and cultural significance to African Americans here in Philadelphia. – Prgm Asst – $600
Historic Designations Protect & Acknowledge
We plan to submit nominations for City, State and National designations of local deserving properties. This is a time consuming process that requires a significant amount of research and document preparation. If volunteers are not available to complete these packages, we will pay for nominations to be completed. Our goal is to complete no less than 2 each quarter. We welcome volunteers or financial support for these projects. Our more urgent nominations will be for City historic designations needed to preserve properties endangered by gentrification or potential demolition. City designation is the only designation that saves a property from potential demolition. – $4000
PLANNED INITIATIVES:
Provide City designated medallions for 25 properties @$75.00 Each Year = $1875
Create physical or virtual Tours $100.00 each = $500
Production of 5000 African American Site Brochures = $600.00
Grant Application Fees (TBD) = $2000.00
Information Tables at Community Events = $2000.00
Funding/honorarium for historic nominations, up to 10 per year @ $1000 each = $10000
Restoration Grant Recipients @$2000.00 per quarter = $8000