Germantown Works

Historic Germantown

An intergenerational working group. Photo by Karl Seifert.

Recipient

Grant Year 2009

Grant Amount $200,000

Status Completed

Updated May 30, 2023

Historic Germantown presented Germantown Works, a series of history-based projects that included youth employment training and, in partnership with a Germantown senior center, intergenerational programming. This project built on the years of work the collaborative has done to build their capacity for working together to develop coordinated programming that is responsive to community concerns. The Germantown Works projects combined historic perspectives on work and industry in Germantown with programs designed to create work for young people.

Recipient

Historic Germantown

Historic Germantown is a partnership of 19 historic houses, destinations, and museums in Northwest Philadelphia that have joined together to protect, preserve, and share some of Philadelphia’s prized historical assets. Historic Germantown is where one of Philadelphia’s Revolutionary War Battles was fought, where the first-ever American protest against slavery was written, and where one of the few remaining houses on the Underground Railroad still stands.

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