About the organization
The Fitch Foundation provides mid-career grants to professionals working to protect historic locations, including buildings and natural areas. The foundation works to strengthen the field on historic preservation and raise awareness about local and national preservation issues.
Why does it appeal to me?
They support very interesting and less mainstream preservation work, like a grant to study midcentury modern bank architecture and another for the Bronx River Right of Way Project. Their recent symposium brought together 'accidental preservationists' - people who don't work in 'preservation', necessarily, but work on issues related to it, or happened upon a historic preservation project. (There are quite a few of these nowadays in DC who are trying to preserve the McMillan Sand Filtration Site, an amazing above and underground architectural wonder.) As a newcomer to Tacoma it's amazing to me how many interesting buildings have been torn down.
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