Donna Ann Harris

Current

• Principal at Heritage Consulting Inc.

Education

• University of Pennsylvania
• Columbia University in the City of New York
• State University of New York at Albany

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Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

• My Website

Donna Ann Harris’s Summary

Heritage Consulting Inc. is a woman-owned business that provides assistance to non-profit organizations, government agencies and corporate clients nationwide in three practice areas: downtown and commercial district revitalization, historic preservation and non-profit organizational development. Donna Ann Harris is the firm's principal and has over twenty years of experience as a trainer, program designer and manager in the historic preservation field.

Ms. Harris is the author of the book New Solutions for House Museums: Ensuring the Long-Term Preservation of America's Historic Houses, published in April 2007 by AltaMira Press, an academic press based in Lanham Maryland. AltaMira Press has a joint publishing agreement with the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) to identify important books in the field. Ms. Harris’s book was jointly published with AASLH under this imprint.

Heritage Consulting Inc.’s services can vary from short, project-specific assignments such as board training, strategic planning or committee training to year-long consultations to fundamentally reorganize a non-profit organization or implement downtown local taxing districts. Downtown and historic preservation have special needs and Heritage Consulting prefers to establish long- term working relationships with clients that mature and develop over time.

We have worked with individuals, agencies and organizations throughout Illinois, and in Michigan, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Wisconsin, Iowa, Maryland, Kansas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Missouri, North Carolina, Colorado, Texas, Kentucky, Washington and Indiana.

Donna Ann Harris’s Specialties:

Heritage Consulting Inc. has a particular expertise in non-profit organizational development issues and can provide long or short term assistance in downtown revitalization planning, partnership development, sustainable funding strategies including establishing business improvement districts, organizing heritage tourism efforts and strategies and planning for reuse of non-profit/government owned historic structures.

Donna Ann Harris’s Education

• University of Pennsylvania

  MGA , Masters of Public Administration , 1992 — 1994

  Activities and Societies:

  Fels Scholar (scholarship)
  Teaching Assistant Workshop II

• Columbia University in the City of New York

  MSHP , Master of Science in Historic Preservation , 1979 — 1981

  Activities and Societies:

  Scholarship
  Readership
  Winner William Kinne Fellows Memorial Traveling Fellowship

• State University of New York at Albany

  BA , American Studies and Art History , 1972 — 1976

  Activities and Societies:

  Scholarship
  Editor, Yearbook 1976

Additional Information

Donna Ann Harris’s Websites:

• My Website

Donna Ann Harris’s Interests:

Professional: capacity building for nonprofit organizations, organizational sustainability, reuses of historic buildings owned by nonprofits and government agencies, development of local business improvement districts, historic preservaiton incentives both local and national, development of commerical corridors and districts in cities, suburbs and rural areas. Personal: interior design, architecture, politics, museums, farmers markets, antique shows.

Donna Ann Harris’s Groups:

National Trust for Historic Preservation, Forum member
American Association for State and Local History, member
National Trust Main Street Center, member
Preservation Action, Board member
Pennsylvania Downtown Center, Professional member
Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia, Professional member
Midwest Museums Association, Professional member
Landmarks Illinois (former Landmarks Preservation Council of Illinois), member, Illinois Main Street

•    National Trust Main Street Center
•    Preservation Alumni
•    National Trust for Historic Preservation
•    Heritage Conservation/Historic Preservation of the Built Environment Network
•    Nonprofit Professionals Forum
•    Association of Indiana Museums
•    Certified Main Street Managers Networking Group
•    New England Independent Museum Professionals
•    Fels Institute of Government Alumni
•    Downtown Ferndale (DDA)
•    Main Street Oakland County Michigan
•    International Downtown Association
•    Michigan Main Street Center @ MSHDA
•    Historic Tax Credit Network
•    Downtown Revitalization

Donna Ann Harris’s Honors:

Mid Career Fellowship, James Marston Fitch Charitable Foundation, NYC, 2003

Scholarship, Certification Institute, National Trust Main Street Center, 2003

Preservation Award '94, for individual service from the Lower Merion Historical Architectural Review Board, Township of Lower Merion, PA, 1994

Teaching Assistant, Governmental Administration Workshop II, Fels Center of Government, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1994

Student Thesis Advisor, University of Pennsylvania, Historic Preservation Program, 1987-92

Fels Scholar, Fels Center of Government, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1992-94

Victorian Society in America, Study Tour of Glasgow & Edinburgh, 1991

Victorian Society in America, Summer School in London, 1987

William Kinne Fellows Memorial Traveling Fellowship, Columbia University, NYC, 1981

Scholarship and Readership, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University, NYC, 1979-81

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