(February 16, 2021)
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) were awarded more than $650,000 in grants today through the HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. The program provides HBCUs with resources to protect, preserve, and leverage their historic campuses, buildings, and landscapes, ensuring these symbols of African-American excellence and American achievement are preserved to inspire and educate future generations.
With an initial investment of more than $1 million, the selected HBCUs will develop cultural heritage stewardship plans for either a campuswide site or for an individual building or site. These plans are intended to guide the grantees as they define preservation solutions to existing architectural or landscaping challenges and to identify a course of action that helps conserve their historic resources. The plans will also assist the HBCUs as they leverage funding and resources to restore and rehabilitate campus facilities.