Heritage Consulting, Inc.

Heritage Consulting Inc. is a certified WBE firm that provides assistance to nonprofit organizations and government agencies 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 five years of experience as a trainer, program designer and manager in the historic preservation field. In 2011 Heritage Consulting Inc. won the Grand Jury Award from the Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia for a year long Public History project for the Delaware County (PA) Planning Department.

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 clients have special needs and Heritage Consulting prefers to establish ongoing working relationships with clients that mature and develop over time

Since starting her firm in 2004 and during her twenty five year professional career, Donna Ann Harris has assisted citizen groups and government agencies to identify appropriate reuses for threatened historic properties that ensure the long term preservation and maintenance of the site. Ms. Harris has worked in the nonprofit and government sectors of the preservation movement for more than two decades at the local, state and national levels. Ms. Harris has led start-up and mature statewide preservation organizations as an executive, was first staff member of a land and building conservation organization, and directed a wide variety of projects for local preservation organizations. They have worked in the downtown revitalization field for more than a dozen years.