Winner of David Knights Innovation Award from Preservation New Jersey for Camden Kiosk

The David H. Knights New Preservation Initiatives Award Winner! Over the last three years, the City of Camden’s Office of the Municipal Clerk has spearheaded the creation of a compelling and fun digital history attraction located in the elevator lobby of City Hall Camden. Measuring eight feet long and 42” high, the City of Camden Heritage Tourism Interactive Touchscreen Display Wall showcases the City of Camden and Camden County’s history attractions to more than 300,000...

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Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards at Historic Sites for Preservation New Jersey

On Sunday November 19, 2023 at 2PM we will be presenting an hour long zoom webinar for Preservation New Jersey on Better Recruitment Equals Better Boards for Historic Sites. This session is a reprise of the presentation we made at the New Jersey State Historic Preservation Conference in June 2023. Here are all the session handouts --there are 12.-- to help you find new board members, prepare them for nomination, accept applications, vet candidates, orient and train those who are nominated by...

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Preservation New Jersey Winner!

We learned on November 1, 2023 that the City of Camden Heritage Tourism Interactive Touch Screen Kiosk has won the David Knights New Preservation Initative Award for 2023 from Preservation New Jersey. Our long standing client the City of Camden Office of the Municipal Clerk will be with us when we accept this award on November 30 at the Maskers Barn in Union County. For the past three years Heritage Consulting Inc. has been the historian and the grant writer for this project. Please check...

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Oregon Main Street Policies and Procedures Manual Published

  Our friends at Oregon Main Street asked Heritage Consulting Inc to bring an old Policies and Procedures Manual for local Main Street organizations up to date and to include best practices for downtown organizations. This 76 page manual is a fill in the blank PDF so you can add your organization's title and processes for check signing for example. About half of the document deals with personnel matters, and this manual has extensive documentation about worker rights and...

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PDC 2023 Conference Diversify Your Revenue Sources!

We are excited to present our most popular Main Street presentation at the 2023 Pennsylvania Downtown Center Conference in Scranton on June 28 2023.  We began presenting Diversify Your Revemue Sources in 2004 when we first began our consulting practice and 18 years later it is still a classic in the fundraiisng for Main Street organizations. There are plenty of handouts for this talk  1.Slides for the presentation Diversity Your Revenue Sources  2. Procrastinators Guide to...

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