The National Trust for Historic Preservation (NTHP), through its African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, announced $3.8 million in grant funding to 40 sites and organizations representing African American history.
According to the NTHP, grants from the African American Cultural Heritage Fund advance ongoing preservation activities for historic places including homes, museums, and landscapes that represent African American cultural heritage. Thus far, 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.
The Action Fund grants support preservation in Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation. This year’s grant announcement includes three grant programs: National Grant Program, Conserving Black Modernism, and HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative.
Special congratulations to the Mid-Atlantic recipients!
National Grant Program
- Elktonia Beach Heritage Park Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation | Annapolis, Maryland
- Peter Bug Shoe Academy DC Historic Preservation Office | Washington, D.C.
- Henry Ossawa Tanner House The Friends of the Tanner House and Preservation Alliance for Greater Philadelphia | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- United Order of Tents Eastern District #3 | Brooklyn, New York
- Mount Zion Cemetery and Female Union Band Society Cemetery Black Georgetown Foundation | Washington, D.C.
Conserving Black Modernism
- Morgan State University’s Jenkins Hall | Baltimore, Maryland
- Zion Baptist Church | Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
For more information and a full list of grant recipients, click here.