Programs and Services
The core activities of the Heritage Community
Foundation are linked to the Foundation's charitable
objects, set out in the Foundation's incorporation
document, the Trust Indenture, and are as follows:
- To promote the study and understanding of
Alberta's historical, natural and cultural heritage by
providing educational programs, courses, seminars,
conferences, symposia, materials and audio-visual
materials in the community for use by members of the
public,
- To preserve that study and understanding by
providing educational programs to increase awareness,
- To promote the advancement of education by
providing scholarships to individuals studying
Alberta's historical, natural and cultural heritage in
disciplines associated with its preservation, study
and interpretation and by providing grants to
institutions which facilitate individual scholarship
activity.
All programming activities devolve from the
Foundation's Mandate "to link people with heritage through
discovery and learning" and/or provide resources for the
accomplishment of the Mandate. The Foundation was set up
to accomplish the following purposes
- To be a strong public voice for heritage
- To build individual and community identity and
pride through research, public education and youth
programs
- To build resources to sustain heritage
institutions, organizations and related projects and
activities.
The core activities of the Foundation are as follows:
- Website development
- Multimedia learning resources
- Heritage community learning centre
- Research into contested aspects of history
- Heritage awareness
- Stabilization fund development