The Action Fund National Grant Program advances ongoing preservation activities for historic places such as sites, museums, and landscapes that represent African American cultural heritage. Funding supports work in four primary areas: Capital Projects, Organizational Capacity Building, Project Planning, and Programming and Interpretation.
All projects concerning sites and themes related to African American cultural heritage are eligible. We are particularly interested in projects related to the following themes:
Activism and Protest Movements
Achievement and Innovation (Education, Science, Business, Politics, etc.)
Architecture Designed by Black Architects
Sites of Enslavement
Washington-Rosenwald Schools
Women’s History
LGBTQ+ History
Arts, Culture, and Creative Expression
Intersectional History (Afro-Puerto Rican, Afro-Indigenous)
Cemeteries and African Burial Grounds
Historically Black Colleges & Universities
Descendant and Family-led Projects