Contributed by: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Organization: National Trust for Historic Preservation
Dated Posted: July 26, 2026
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Announcing the 2026 National Grant Program recipients

Celebration is in order! This year, the National Trust’s African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is awarding $3 million in grants to support 27 sites across the country that represent Black American joy, resilience, innovation, and activism.

The awardees include:

• the multi-state Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, which protects one of the nation's most distinctive Black cultural landscapes
• the Eliza Freeman House in Bridgeport, Connecticut, home to a self-made Black businesswoman in the 1840s

Additionally, this year's announcement includes the fourth round of Conserving Black Modernism grants, an initiative designed to protect and promote the work of African American architects.

This year's portfolio includes:

• Fisk University’s Park Johnson Hall in Nashville, Tennessee
• St. Mark AME Zion Church in East Chicago, Indiana

Read the full list of this year's grantees.