$3.8M in Action Fund Grants Help Protect 40 African American Historic Sites

Morgan School Charlotte North Carolina

Grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as homes, museums, and landscapes that represent African American cultural heritage. To date, the program has supported 242 historic African American places and invested more than $20 million to help preserve significant sites imbued with Black life, humanity, and cultural heritage.

With amounts ranging from $50,000 to $155,000, these Action Fund grants support preservation work in four primary areas: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation. This year’s grant announcement also includes three grant programs:

National Grant Program

Conserving Black Modernism

HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative

Read the list of grant recipients here: SavingPlaces.Org