Preserving America's Historic Black Churches [Preserving Black Churches]
Channel: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Date: 2023-01-16

On June 16, 2022, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund announced its first round of Preserving Black Churches grants to 35 historic Black churches across the U.S., for a total investment of $4 million.  

The Action Fund’s Preserving Black Churches program is a $20 million initiative funded by  Lilly Endowment Inc., to help historic Black churches and congregations reimagine, redesign and deploy historic preservation to protect the cultural assets and legacies they steward, tell their stories of resiliency and hope, and carry their missions into the future. With more than $80 million in funding, the Action Fund is the largest U.S. resource dedicated to the preservation of African American historic places.