Join us for our Preservation Celebration 2024 at Hollins Market. On October 10, we’ll honor our 2024 Preservation Award winners and, with your help, give out five micro-grants to people working on the front lines in our historic neighborhoods. We’ll say thank you to our volunteers and honor all of their hard work this year. This gathering also acts as Baltimore Heritage’s annual meeting where we elect new board members. With food and drinks from Baltimore vendors, we hope you will join us for what promises to be a wonderful evening. There is a suggested donation of $25.
This year’s microgrant presenters are:
Corner Team Boxing Club
Evolving Young Girls Mentoring Organization
Friends of Patterson Park
Friends of St. Peter’s Cemetery
Pride of Baltimore
Westminster Hall and Burying Ground
Event Schedule:
5:30 pm – Doors Open with Food and Drink
6:00 pm – Welcome and Board Elections
6:10 pm – Presentation of 2024 Awards
6:35 pm – Microgrant Presentations and Selection
About Our 2024 Microgrants
We’re in our 9th year of giving away micro-grants to help fund preservation work in the city.
We’ll pick the most promising ideas and give them a chance for one $2000 grant, two $1000 grants and three $500 grants. Supporters of each idea will get three minutes to pitch them and at the end, all of us present will cast ballots to decide which ideas receive the micro grants.
The types of eligible projects are endless, and as long as they relate to Baltimore’s history, heritage, historic buildings or historic neighborhoods we will consider them. Past award winners include: restoring leaking masonry at a historic church, launching an after school arts-based safe space program in a historic neighborhood, supporting archaeological efforts at a historic furnace, and providing supplies for a community trying to provide access to a neighboring park. The sky’s the limit!