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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The oldest #Polish #mausoleum in the shape of a #pyramid was built in the place of the early #medieval #hillfort fr… https://t.co/vG3t4AwF9G
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Lost until the 1980s, this 800-year-old #shipwreck included thousands of luxury goods and an ceramic with the histo… https://t.co/m0G1ZHDpjp
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For the past thirty years, #archaeologists in #Turkey have worked diligently to lift Sagalassos from its #ruins and… https://t.co/gCWazc5rmE
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Did you know that many cities have intentionally sunk ships to create more land? #Archaeologists are excavating sev… https://t.co/IEYWLbefMg
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Police have caught a #tourist trying to leave #Pompeii with a backpack full of #ancient #Roman #artifacts. “We didn… https://t.co/0s9Nh9wHBo
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#Italian authorities have recovered #antiquities dating back to the fourth century BCE after objects were advertise… https://t.co/aVEtTk1nP8
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The iconic #TajMahal is being disfigured with spots of yellow, brown and green. https://t.co/64RNeSvcOV
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A new documentary is pushing to save #Tasmania's #Tarkine #Rainforest, home to one of the highest concentrations of… https://t.co/Ea57fwjBUY
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#Alaskan burial #artifacts brought to 19th century #Germany are to be returned to #indigenous Pacific Coast residen… https://t.co/R9eQpnIQZv
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#Egyptian authorities have seized eighteen #artifacts, including nine cat #mummies wrapped in fine linen bandages,… https://t.co/iRbYCqFboY
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#Archaeological sites in #Mexico’s #GuadalupeSierra have fallen prey to pillaging and indiscriminate urban developm… https://t.co/u9caKyeCg8
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In the ancient city of #Sagalassos, majestic #ruins still inspire awe and reveal tantalizing glimpses into past cul… https://t.co/ahHPP9m7IY
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Until the arrival of motor vehicles, a union of tribes would religious pilgrims through #SouthSinai. Now. these tri… https://t.co/5LFx4J1jfl