Action Fund Grant Stories

Since 2018, the National Trust has awarded grants to places and organizations that help the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund achieve its mission of protecting, restoring, and interpreting African American historic sites and uncovering hidden narratives of African Americans and their contribution to the American story.

Preservation Magazine How A Once-Notorious Site of Enslavement Became a Bastion of Black History in Alexandria, Virginia
Preserving Black Churches 35 Historic Black Churches Receive $4 Million Investment
Preservation Magazine Elizabeth Alexander on the "Urgent and Sacred Mission" of Saving Black History Sites
Preservation Magazine How the Free Black Community of Weeksville Rose in 19th-Century Brooklyn
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Anasa Troutman and the Future of Historic Clayborn Temple
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund National Trust Awards $3 Million in Grants to 33 Sites to Help Preserve Black History
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Community Engagement: Preservation Organizations and Saving Black History
Preservation Magazine Q&A: Angela Lee on Durham's Enduring Arts Center in a Former AME Church
Preservation Magazine A Fragile but Important Artwork at Hampton University Gets a Boost
HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative Preserving Philander Smith College: Q&A with Dr. Roderick L. Smothers, Sr.
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund Children of the Hush Harbor: Historic Black Churches and the Fight to Save Them
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund People Saving Places: Sidney Clifton and The Clifton House

13 - 24 of 49 stories