What is our Community Partners program?
Community Partners Projects are pro-bono work days for which WCG members volunteer their conservation expertise at a particular historic site. They are generally conducted all in one day, although the preparation and follow-up require additional time.
For more information, or to suggest a project for the next WCG Community Partners Projects Project, please contact us: outreach@washingtonconservationguild.org.
Benefits of a Community Partners project
- Providing an opportunity for the site personnel to become familiar with conservation.
- Providing sites with an opportunity to establish ongoing relationships with local conservators who may assist with on-going and future conservation needs.
- Providing sites with completion of much-needed conservation or collections care tasks.
- Providing the opportunity for conservators to become familiar with a site’s staff and facilities which in turn may aid in future emergency response and salvage operations.
- Providing an opportunity for conservators and site volunteers to network and have fun.
- Enhancing public awareness of WCG activities and the goals of the conservation profession as a whole.
Summaries of past projects
2019: National Museum of American Jewish Military History
2018: George Washington National Masonic Memorial
2013: Murphy Fine Arts Center, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD
2012: National Park Service, Museum Resource Center
2010: National Park Seminary
2009: Charles Sumner School
2008: Historical Society of DC
2007: Georgetown Public Library
2006: Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, St. Leonard MD
2004/2005: Congressional Cemetery
