While We Are Still Here

While We Are Still HereWhile We Are Still HereWhile We Are Still Here

While We Are Still Here

While We Are Still HereWhile We Are Still HereWhile We Are Still Here
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PRESERVING HARLEM'S HISTORY

WHO WE ARE

While We Are Still Here is a 501(c)(3) organization that includes long-term residents of 409 and 555 Edgecombe Avenue—the average number of years of residence is thirty. Non-resident members are interested in helping to preserve the grand history of these important sites.

WWSH was formed as a response to the threat that each building’s history would be lost and gone forever, partially due to the passing of time, and partially due to  “gentrification,” which is rapidly altering the environment. 

MISSION 

While We Are Still Here (WWSH) will educate, enshrine and preserve the extraordinary legacy of Harlem as an influential incubator that was vital to the intellectual, cultural, social, and political advancements of the Harlem community as well as the African Diaspora. 


VISION
While We Are Still Here ensures that the “post-gentrification” community of Harlem and beyond will honor and find a meaningful connection to the legacy of African American achievement, and its paramount importance to world culture. 


INSPIRATION 

“…[H]eritage in all its forms must be preserved, enhanced, and handed on to future generations as a record of human experience and aspirations, so as to foster creativity in all its diversity and to inspire genuine dialogue among cultures.” 

—From the United Nations’ Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity and Creativity, Article 7 


FUNDING AND PROGRAMMING PARTNERS

While We Are Still Here is proud to be a partner of: 


National Trust for Historic Preservation African American Cultural  

Heritage Action Fund /

This project was funded by a grant from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation with support from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.


African Voices 


Apollo Theater 


Barnard College 


Broadway Housing Communities 

i, too, collective (defunct) 


Harlem Entrepreneurial Fund


Humanities NY


Jazz Foundation of America


National Museum of African American History and Culture 


New York Community Trust


New York Life Foundation

  

Thank you to New York Life for the $50K grant that will allow WWSH to install markers for the SIGNS OF THE TIMES| Harlem Heritage Markers Project


Pomeroy Foundation


Puffin Foundation


Teachers College Harlem Education History Project 


Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture 


West Harlem Development Corporation



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