Membership

Czech Heritage Partnership - Information

IRS Approved 501 (c)(3) Not-For-Profit Iowa Corporation.

We are an active association of persons interested in preserving and promoting our collective ethnic heritage, history, music, genealogy, social customs, historic properties, old documents and pictures, and general culture - to enrich our lives, the quality of life in the region and in our communities, and the lives of those who will come after us. We invite persons of like mind to join us.

While the dominant ethnic ancestry of our core region is Czech we welcome persons of all ancestries with a connection to and/or interest in the region and in our activities.

If you are interested in joining the Czech Heritage Partnership (CHP), please download, and print this Membership Form (PDF document) and send it to the address below:

Membership committee, CHP
P.O. Box 186
Protivin, IA 52163

If you would like to contact a member for more information, please e-mail Steven Klimesh – – a member of the membership committee.

All of our notices, announcements and messages are sent by e-mail. You will need an e-mail address. If you do not have one of your own you may be able to use a friend's or you may be able to arrange for one through your local library to get e-mail on library computers.

Dues are $10 per person per calendar year.

We have general membership meetings, rotating through communities in the region, in the months of January, March, May, July, September and November. Committees and special interest meetings are held as necessary.