| FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Draper Richards
Foundation Awards Global Heritage Fund Three Year
Fellowship
Palo Alto April 30, 2003
- The Draper Richards Foundation has awarded the Global
Heritage Fund (GHF) its coveted Fellowship for Social
Entrepreneurship, a three-year, $300,000 Fellowship
enables GHF to expand its innovative ‘Adopt-A-Site
program matching U.S. donors with world-class conservation
projects at endangered ancient world heritage sites
in Asia, the Middle East, South and Central America
and Africa humankind’s Cradles of Civilization.
In addition to mobilizing a multi-million dollar global
philanthropy campaign to save endangered world heritage
sites in developing countries, the Draper Richards
Fellowship for Social Entrepreneurship will help GHF
develop regional Conservation Leadership Institutes
(CLIs) for training GHF Leaders in Conservation and
world heritage site conservation teams in he latest
science and conservation techniques. This support
also enables GHF to expands its Global Heritage Network
(GHN) of experts and technology (GIS, satellite imagery,
mapping, materials science, planning, knowledge sharing)
for GHF Leaders in Conservation in the field.
"We are extremely pleased to receive
the Draper Richards Fellowship to expand our Adopt-A-Site
program and Conservation Leadership Institutes in
GHF’s Asia Pacific, Americas, Europe, Middle
East and African regions”, said Jeff Morgan,
Executive Director of the Global Heritage Fund. “The
Draper Richards Foundation team has been very supportive
of international development. Earlier in his career
as United Nations Development Program Administrator,
Bill Draper was involved in the early funding of conservation
for Angkor Wat in Cambodia and knows what an asset
world heritage sites can be when they are protected”.
Following his responsibilities for the United Nation
Development Program, Mr. Draper joined Robin Donohoe
in launching Draper International, an international
venture fund.
“We were impressed not only with
the Global Heritage Fund’s excellent conservation
work, but also with Jeff Morgan and his team’s
incredibly strong administrative skills. Global Heritage
Fund’s unique Preservation by Design strategy
and impressive Advisory Board are key to its success,”
said Jenny Shilling, Executive Director, Draper Richards
Foundation. “GHF’s partnership with conservation
experts and local organizations has proven successful
in countries like China, Ukraine and Guatemala.”
GHF and Draper Richards have jointly
set three-year milestones for the development of GHF
and its global conservation programs, and will work
together on strategic growth and organizational issues.
About Draper Richards Foundation
The Draper Richards Foundation (www.draperrichards.org)
provides fellowships to outstanding social entrepreneurs.
The Foundation selects new organizations that demonstrate
innovative and highly leveraged ways to solve existing
social problems. The Foundation seeks organizations
that are or plan to be national or global in scope.
The Foundation was founded by venture capitalists
William H. Draper III and Robin Richards Donohoe.
About Global Heritage Fund
The Global Heritage Fund's mission is to enable successful
long-term preservation of humankind's most important
archaeological sites and ancient townscapes, creating
new engines for economic growth in developing countries.
GHF works to develop comprehensive Master Conservation
Plans, provides early matching grants and training,
builds local institutions and promotes sustainable
tourism development to ensure permanent protection
for global cultural treasures. The Global Heritage
Fund is a registered non-profit conservancy based
in Palo Alto, California.
Please direct media inquiries to:
GHF Press press@globalheritagefund.org
or (650) 325 7520
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