Global Heritage Fund
Model & Strategy
The Global Heritage Fund’s mission is to enable successful long-term preservation of the world’s most important and endangered world heritage sites in developing countries. GHF focuses efforts on sites with strong potential for tourism development yet with acute pressures and without resources for preservation and planned development. GHF leads funding, planning and monitoring of critical preservation and restoration projects at Global Heritage sites. Each GHF Project follows an integrated method and process, termed Preservation by Design, which includes master planning, scientific excellence, community involvement and partnerships built to provide enduring protection, management and financial support for these significant yet vulnerable sites.
Jeff Morgan, Global Heritage Fund’s founder, is a trained urban and regional planner and has been an international sales and marketing executive in software and network computing for the past 16 years. He is a co-author of Cracking the Japanese Market: Keys to Success in the New Global Economy (Free Press, 1991) and Saving Our Global Heritage (GHF Press, 2004).
Stefaan Poortman joined Global Heritage Fund (GHF) in 2005 and currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer. Stefaan leads GHF’s global management, operational and strategic efforts. In addition to being a member of the GHF Board of Trustees, Stefaan is a member of the Board of Trustees of GHF United Kingdom, Board of Trustees of GHFAsia Ltd. in Hong Kong, and the Board of Directors of the Tayrona Foundation for Archaeological and EnvironmentalResearch (FIAAT) in Colombia. He is also an advisor to the CEO and Founder of Artisan Connect, a registered B-Corporation and social enterprise that provides market access for small-scale artisan groups in the developing world.
IMPACT
Since its inception in 2002, GHF has invested over $50 million to preserve, protect, and promote almost 30 global heritage sites in over 20 countries around the world.
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A collection of 5,000-year-old #antiquities looted from #Iraq in 2003 after the fall of Saddam Hussein will be retu… https://t.co/djIqRQmHW2
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Have you ever visited a #historic #shipwreck? Canada is home to thousands of wrecked, sunken ships. But unlike othe… https://t.co/8dqtEzc7eR
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The discovery of a 2,200-year-old gold earring at #archaeological excavations near Jerusalem’s Old City has provide… https://t.co/lZQNkH7WhJ
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Museums around the world display cultural objects on loan from other institutions and collectors. But who is respon… https://t.co/FtBQ7IXd7H
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Cultural property expert Peter Stone says that “a community's memory is largely held in its #cultural #heritage and… https://t.co/x7QRxnRxWN
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2019 will be UNESCO's International Year of #Indigenous #Languages. Do you or family members speak an Indigenous la… https://t.co/jtVXgIb5z5
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An uplifting update from the world of #antiquities — the Metropolitan Museum of Art is voluntarily returning two st… https://t.co/0Pb3cRVDPw
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Restoring Syria's #ancient #monuments will be a huge job. To help with restoration, a master #stonemason in Jordan… https://t.co/uUGc0pWjb1
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The #UK is experiencing its driest summer in fifty-seven years, but at least the #archeologists are happy. This sum… https://t.co/8T8mJZrp7w
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Early #Roman "horseshoes" unearthed during an excavation at a fort near Hadrian's Wall will soon be on display. Hav… https://t.co/Oe8CDAREqm
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Originally part of a #Neolithic burial chamber, Liverpool's Calderstones are now being studied, recorded and restor… https://t.co/Ewt3oDDHC6
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We recently partnered on a Disaster Risk Management for Cultural Heritage seminar for 40 students at the Helwan Uni… https://t.co/sXgWeVkIcY
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Do you know of Darius Arya? Meet this archaeologist and Rome expert, and read his views on historic sites, heritage… https://t.co/VUGU5gliwa
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Several upcoming music and arts #festivals in the Middle East will combine impressive artists with dramatic… https://t.co/zwVFK07b3o
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Archaeologists have found traces of a submerged #prehistoric settlement under Lake Kuolimojarvi in #Finland. What d… https://t.co/c28Woo4nqy
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The invention of #zero was a hugely significant mathematical development which made #physics, #engineering and much… https://t.co/iDcHXnwajt
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Millennia older than Stonehenge or Egypt’s pyramids, Göbekli Tepe has been billed as the world’s oldest temple. Exp… https://t.co/gek9CjKbqX
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Montreal is providing archaeology training to First Nations community members so that they can become involved in f… https://t.co/YwAEtoqCbD
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We work around the globe to save endangered heritage sites and practices. Our work depends on support from donors l… https://t.co/eUEcrvLCFJ
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While Christianity was banned in Japan, Christians had to worship in secret. UNESCO has designated a series of hidd… https://t.co/rRwAOqbu0d