WATERFORD FOUNDATION INC
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Waterford Fair
Since 1943, the award-winning Waterford Homes Tour and Crafts Exhibit has attracted thousands visitors to the National Historic Landmark District for a weekend of history, education, and fun. More than 150 artisans, many of national recognition, demonstrate techniques of traditional craftsmanshispacious Victorian homes, simple Quaker buildings and small log structures are opened. A Revolutionary War militia camps in town, the fife and drum corps marches through the narrow streets, Civil War soldiers reenact a past battle, and there is music everywhere. This is the Waterford Foundation's premier annual educational and fundraising event.
Stewardship of Landmark Historic Properties
The Waterford Foundation preserves and protects 11 historic buildings and 3 open spaces, including 2 schools, a mill, several barns, a corner store, a tin shop, a chair factory/hardware store, a forge, a church, a jail, a village green, a meadow, and a 144-acre historic farm and mill race. These properties were all purchased to avoid demolition, deterioration, or development and to protect them through easement as integral parts of the Waterford National Historic Landmark. As historic buildings and lands they require much of the Foundation's annual budget to restore and maintain them.
Second Street School Living History Program
Since 1984, third- and fourth-grade students from Loudoun County and neighboring areas have been recreating a school day in 1880 by taking on the roles of the African-American children who actually attended the one-room school at that time. The program, developed with the help of the National Endowment for the Humanities, fosters an appreciation of the opportunities and limitations faced by black children in a segregated one-room school. Recitation, seat work with slates and copy books, memory exercises, and a spelling bee are part of the two-hour school "day.” Waterford Foundation volunteers take on the identities of the teacher, Miss Aura Nickens, and her assistant, Miss Lizzie Simms. The program reaches some 1,500 young scholars during a five-week fall session and a nine-week spring term.
Through ’s interactive video, web visitors can now experience life as a student in Waterford in 1880 online! Join a class of contemporary fourth-grade students from Loudoun County as they enter the Second Street School, preserved in Waterford as it was in 1880. Explore the classroom to see how a student would learn, play, read, write, and even be punished in 1880.
Phillips Farm Stewardship & Education
The opportunities on the Foundation’s Phillips Farm to further understanding of our region’s agrarian past are numerous and fascinating. Protection of the site’s natural resources and agricultural use of the Farm are requirements of the conservation easement. Much of the Farm is leased to a local farmer for haymaking.In 2008 the Waterford Foundation released a Management and Land Use Plan(http://www.waterfordfoundation.org/images/articles/phillips-farm-plan-final-8-09.pdf) carefully developed over a two-year period to ensure responsible stewardship of the Farm in accordance with the requirements of the conservation easement. Protection of the site’s natural resources and support of agricultural uses of the Farm, key requirements of the easement, are highlighted. So is its historic significance to the area. The plan also contains directions to the Farm, an Access Policy, and Rules of the Trail for visitors. A copy of the complete plan is available upon request from the Foundation office.
One educational goal for the Farm is the promotion of habitat restoration and water quality. In collaboration with the Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, a demonstration project on the South Fork of the Catoctin Creek began in spring 2008, and volunteers continue to return to the Farm several times each year. The project consists of planting a riparian buffer to protect the environmentally fragile Catoctin Creek watershed, as well as an effort to control invasive plant species on the Farm (such as multiflora rose and tree of heaven). Water quality monitoring is another part of the effort. Bird and butterfly counts and guided nature walks have added to the property’s public outreach programs.
Waterford Craft School
The Waterford Craft School seeks to teach and preserve traditional methods used in craft and building arts, enabling students to learn make by hand skills by offering classes to the public taught by experts in each field. Classes vary each session and include topics such as quilting, weaving, furniture-making, and basket weaving.
Classes in building arts are available. which focus on traditional construction methods for building restoration.
Course material is designed for students ages 18 and up. Classes are held in the Waterford National Historic Landmark in or around Waterford Foundation buildings.
Where we work
Awards
National Historic Landmark District 1970
U.S. Department of the Interior
Nonprofit of the Year 2011
Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce
Preserve America Community 2011
U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation
Affiliations & memberships
National Trust For Historic Preservation 1949
Center for Nonprofit Management Excellence Network 2006
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WATERFORD FOUNDATION INC
Board of directorsas of 06/13/2019
Mr. Joseph Goode
John Caron
federal employee, retired
Joe Goode
consultant
Wendy Roseberry
AOL, retired
Roy Chaudet
EPA
Bill McGuire
pharmaceuticals, retired
Sarah Holway
nonprofit director
Jonathan Daniel
teacher
Ed Lehmann
federal employee, retired
Bonnie J. Getty
CFO, CWG Consultants
Sarah Holway
teacher
Susanne Hale
Ann Good
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? Yes -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? No