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  2. Global Heritage Fund - Wikipedia

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    Global Heritage Fund UK shares the Global Heritage Fund mission to transform local communities by investing in global heritage. Global Heritage Fund UK Board of Trustees members include Patrick Franco, James Hooper, Nada Hosking, and Princess Alia Al-Senussi. Prince Richard, Duke of Gloucester, KG, GCVO is the Royal Patron of Global Heritage ...

  3. National Lottery Heritage Fund - Wikipedia

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    The fund's income comes from the National Lottery, which was managed until 2024 by Camelot Group. [5] Its objectives are "to conserve the UK's diverse heritage, to encourage people to be involved in heritage and to widen access and learning". [6] As of 2019, it had awarded £7.9 billion to 43,000 projects. [4]

  4. World Heritage Convention - Wikipedia

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    A Fund for the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage of Outstanding Universal Value, called "the World Heritage Fund", is hereby established. The Fund shall constitute a trust fund, in conformity with the provisions of the Financial Regulations of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization.

  5. Historic preservation - Wikipedia

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    The World Heritage convention's counterpart, The World Heritage Committee, is the body responsible for the practical implementation of the convention as well as managing and deciding how to use the World Heritage Fund. The committee also gets to have the final say when determining whether a property will be included in the World Heritage List.

  6. The Heritage Foundation - Wikipedia

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    The Heritage Foundation's headquarters on Massachusetts Avenue on Capitol Hill. The Heritage Foundation was founded on February 16, 1973 during the Nixon administration by Paul Weyrich, Edwin Feulner, and Joseph Coors. [11] [12] [13] Growing out of the new business activist movement inspired by the Powell Memorandum, [14] [15] discontent with ...

  7. World Heritage Site - Wikipedia

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    A World Heritage Site may signify a remarkable accomplishment of humanity, and serve as evidence of our intellectual history on the planet or it might be a place of great natural beauty. As of April 2024, a total of 1,199 World Heritage Sites (933 cultural, 227 natural and 39 mixed cultural and natural properties) exist across 168 countries.

  8. World Monuments Fund - Wikipedia

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    World Monuments Fund ( WMF) is a private, international, non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of historic architecture and cultural heritage sites around the world through fieldwork, advocacy, grantmaking, education, and training. Founded in 1965, WMF is headquartered in New York, and has offices and affiliates around the world ...

  9. Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural ...

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    The fund mainly consists of the contributions by state parties and funds by the General Conference of UNESCO. History Precursors. One of the first international occasions that mentioned the preservation of 'intangible heritage' was the World Conference on Cultural Policies in Mexico City in 1982.