Eight HBCUs Awarded More Than $650,000 From National Trust to Preserve Campuses
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The National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has announced that it is giving more than $650,000 in grant awards to eight Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) as a part of the new HBCU Cultural Heritage Stewardship Initiative.
This program will give the HBCUs the necessary funds and resources to protect, preserve, and leverage their individual historic campuses, buildings, and landscapes. This will ensure that these symbols of African American excellence and American achievement are preserved to inspire and educate future generations.
“HBCUs are keepers of an important American legacy,” said National Trust President and CEO Paul Edmondson in a written statement, “and many of these institutions are home to important, irreplaceable historic assets that require investment to retain and adapt them for modern use. The National Trust for Histor
(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