CPF Launches Future Forward Campaign
CPF is proud to announce the launch of Future Forward, a special fundraising initiative created in honor of longtime Executive Director Cindy Heitzman, who will retire later this year after 22 years of extraordinary service to the California Preservation Foundation.
This moment marks both a celebration and a transition. Under Cindy’s leadership, CPF has expanded its statewide reach, strengthened its education and advocacy programs, and launched important initiatives such as Underrecognized California, which helps document and recognize historic places and stories too often left out of the official record.
As CPF prepares to welcome new leadership, Future Forward invites our community to help build on this legacy and invest in the organization’s next chapter. Gifts to the campaign can support CPF’s organizational capacity, expand Underrecognized California, and increase student scholarship funding for the next generation of preservation leaders.
This campaign is an opportunity to honor Cindy’s lasting contributions while helping ensure that CPF remains strong, responsive, and ready to serve communities across California for years to come.
Join us in moving preservation Future Forward.
About the Author
Jonathan Haeber, Field Services Director for the California Preservation Foundation, is a published author and Public Historian. He has consulted on interpretive exhibits for museums and nonprofit organizations in Massachusetts and California, and played a key role in the historic preservation study for a Henry Hobson Richardson rail station in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He is the recipient of the 2013 Preservation Award from the Holyoke Historical Commission. Jonathan’s 2011 book from Furnace Press, Grossinger’s: City of Refuge and Illusion, examined the history of the Catskills’ most legendary resort hotel through large format and digital photographs, interviews, and archival research. Jonathan has a Master of Arts degree in United States History with a Certificate in Public History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His thesis examined the built environment, social history, and landscape of an industrial, planned city’s Main Street consumer culture in the early 20th century. Before returning to school, he worked in the editorial field and grew up in a rural town near Roseburg, Oregon, eventually earning Bachelor of Arts degrees in English and Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. Find Jon on Twitter, LinkedIn, Google Plus, or Facebook.
