Corporate Membership
Founded in 1956, Providence Preservation Society (PPS) is one of the country’s first preservation
organizations. It is a unique civic, design and community nonprofit with a distinguished history of scholarship, grassroots advocacy, and visionary educational and training initiatives that has spearheaded the successful preservation of significant buildings, cultural landscapes and neighborhoods across the city over nearly seventy years. In 2021, PPS adopted a strategic plan titled Democratizing Preservation that commits to new research, programs and initiatives that address systemic inequities and to a new workforce and climate resilience program that provides trades training in historic preservation and adaptive reuse. PPS educates the public about Providence’s architectural and social history; advocates to save historic buildings and places; promotes green building and sustainability policies that support adaptive reuse and materials recycling, salvage and circular economy practices; and teaches historic building and adaptive reuse skills through its new Building Works training initiative.
PPS’s headquarters office at 24 Meeting Street is known as “The Old Brick Schoolhouse,” a 1769 brick building that is one of the country’s oldest public schools. In 2021, PPS undertook a clean energy renovation of the building that serves as a model for how to balance historic preservation with energy infrastructure retrofits.
We invite you to join PPS as a corporate member and become part of an active civic community that invests in the people and places that make Providence thrive.
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Civic Place-keeper: $500
Benefits include invitations to members-only events throughout the year; discounted members’ tickets to all PPS tours, events and swag; acknowledgment in PPS’s Annual Report and on PPS’s website; one (1) complimentary ticket to the Festival of Historic Houses; and one (1) invitation to PPS’s annual Benefactors’ Garden Party.
Heritage Steward: $1,000
Benefits include invitations to members-only events throughout the year; discounted members’ tickets to all PPS tours, events and swag and and complimentary access to each PPS tour or public program for one (1) staff member (reservations must be made in advance); acknowledgment in PPS’s Annual Report and on PPS’s website; two (2) complimentary tickets to the Festival of Historic Houses; and two (2) invitations to PPS’s annual Benefactors’ Garden Party.
Preservation Leader: $2,500
Benefits include invitations to members-only events throughout the year; complimentary access to each PPS tour or public program for two (2) staff members (reservations must be made in advance); acknowledgment in PPS’s Annual Report, on PPS’s website and at PPS’s Annual Meeting as a Preservation Leader; two (2) complimentary tickets to the Festival of Historic Houses; two (2) invitations to PPS’s annual Benefactors’ Garden Party; and one (1) invitation to the annual PPS Power Breakfast with the Executive Director, corporate members at the Preservation Leader level and above, and individual donors who are members of the Antoinette Downing Leadership Circle.
Corporate Patron: $5,000
Benefits include invitations to members-only events throughout the year; complimentary access to each PPS tour or public program for four (4) staff members (reservations must be made in advance); acknowledgment in PPS’s Annual Report, on PPS’s website and at PPS’s Annual Meeting as a Corporate Patron; four (4) complimentary tickets to the Festival of Historic Houses; four (4) invitations to PPS’s annual Benefactors’ Garden Party; two (2) invitations to the annual PPS Power Breakfast with the Executive Director, corporate members at the Preservation Leader level and above, and individual donors who are members of the Antoinette Downing Leadership Circle; four (4) invitations to the Festival of Historic Houses Preview Party; one-year PPS Household-level membership for up to four (4) staff; a private group walking tour led by the Executive Director for up to 15 people, a wonderful opportunity to host clients or employees (by request); and logo recognition as a PPS Corporate Patron on all PPS Power Breakfast and PPS Annual Meeting materials, including invitations, website, social media, and media releases.
Corporate Benefactor: $10,000
Benefits include invitations to members-only events throughout the year; complimentary access to each PPS tour or public program for staff, clients and guests (reservations must be made in advance); acknowledgment in PPS’s Annual Report, on PPS’s website and at PPS’s Annual Meeting as a Corporate Benefactor; eight (8) complimentary tickets to the Festival of Historic Houses; eight (8) invitations to PPS’s annual Benefactors’ Garden Party; four (4) invitations to the annual PPS Power Breakfast with the Executive Director, corporate members at the Preservation Leader level and above, and individual donors who are members of the Antoinette Downing Leadership Circle; eight (8) invitations to the Festival of Historic Houses Preview Party; one-year PPS Household-level membership for up to eight (8) staff; a private group walking tour led by the Executive Director for up to 15 people, a wonderful opportunity to host clients or employees followed by a cocktail reception at a special historical or architectural site (by request); and logo recognition as a PPS Corporate Benefactor on all PPS Power Breakfast and PPS Annual Meeting materials, including invitations, website, social media, and media releases.
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Please email Allison Hernandezor call 401.831.7440 with any additional questions.