The purpose of the heritage partnership program funding is to engage national heritage arearecipients, partners, communities, and or visitors in shared environmental stewardship

The National Park Service (NPS) Heritage Partnership Program (CFDA 15.939) awarded a $1,000,000 cooperative agreement to Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor, Inc. on June 18, 2025, with performance extending through September 30, 2027. This funding supports the organization's implementation of environmental stewardship and cultural preservation activities within the Gullah Geechee National Heritage Corridor. The Heritage Partnership Program provides funding to advance shared environmental stewardship among National Heritage Area recipients, partners, communities, and visitors through comprehensive initiatives focused on preserving locally significant natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources.

Under this cooperative agreement, anticipated products and services include heritage conservation work, historic preservation activities, heritage tourism development, interpretation and education programming, community engagement initiatives, and associated administrative functions. Funded deliverables may encompass capital improvements to heritage sites and trails, interpretive center development, educational curriculum development, volunteer stewardship training, archival digitization, and public art programming. These activities collectively aim to build resource stewardship ethics among participants while promoting greater public and private participation in preservation, conservation, education, and outdoor recreation programs throughout the designated heritage corridor.

This is done bypromoting greater public and private participation in preservation, conservation, education, and outdoorrecreation programs and activities, and building resource stewardship ethics in its participants. Heritage partnership programs promote the conservation of local natural, historic, scenic, and cultural resources through national heritage areas, national heritage corridors, national historic districts, and other designations (nhas). These authorized programs are the management responsibility of federal commissions, nonprofit groups, universities, state agencies or municipal authorities. They are not units of the national park system, and their lands are not federally owned or managed. Beneficiaries include general public, states and or their political subdivisions, non-profits, private entities, the heritage area management coordinating entity.