Project Grant P21AP11686

This $8,994,272 federal Project Grant award was provided by the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Famicos Foundation, a non-profit organization and community development corporation in Cleveland, Ohio. The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the St. Marks Presbyterian Church, a historic property listed or eligible for the National Register of Historic Places. The project period runs from June 1, 2024 to May 31, 2027. The grant...

The Ralph David Abernathy III Foundation, Inc. will receive $499,232 from the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to preserve and interpret the history of the West Hunter Street Baptist Church in Atlanta, GA from August 1, 2022 to August 30, 2025. The Foundation will use the funding to replace missing windows, refinish pews and sanctuary space at the church, which was a focal point of the Civil Rights Movement under the leadership of Dr....

The Collins Chapel CME Church in Memphis, Tennessee will use a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service to conduct preservation activities for the historic church building and site from August 2022 through August 2025. Funded through the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program, the project aims to improve infrastructure to meet safety standards and develop plans to highlight the original 1841 architectural design of one of the oldest surviving Black-owned institutions in...

The National Park Service awarded a $500,000 Historic Preservation Fund Grant-in-Aid to the Buffalo Niagara Freedom Station Coalition Inc. to preserve the Michigan Street Baptist Church in Buffalo, NY. Under the award, the Coalition will complete repairs to the doors, windows, and interior finishes of the historic church building, along with electrical system improvements. The work will assist in preserving this historic resource in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for...

This $489,800 project grant from the National Park Service, under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904), will fund repairs and accessibility improvements to the St. Mark's AME Church in Topeka, Kansas. The church, where Reverend Oliver Brown served as pastor during the landmark Brown v. Board of Education case, will be preserved as an educational facility through this funding. Specifically, the grant will support masonry repair, termite damage remediation, window...

The Louisville-Jefferson County Metro Government received a $500,000 project grant award from the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). The grant will fund rehabilitation work to provide a stable, watertight building envelope for the Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Louisville, Kentucky. As part of its mission against racial discrimination throughout the 20th century, the church...

This federal Project Grant award of $769,400 was issued on June 1, 2024 by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904). The grant will fund the rehabilitation of the Wilson Bruce Evans Home in Oberlin, Ohio by the nonprofit Wilson Bruce Evans Home Historical Society. The project involves architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation planning, and physical preservation of this historic property listed on the National...

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under the Fair Housing Organization Initiatives (CFDA 14.417) program, will fund a comprehensive set of fair housing enforcement, education, and outreach activities by the Housing Research & Advocacy Center, doing business as the Fair Housing Center For Rights & Research, a non-profit organization based in Cleveland, Ohio. The key services to be delivered include: referring...

The National Park Service awarded $500,000 under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to the National Mary Potter Club Inc. to rehabilitate the vacant Mary Potter School Shop Building in Oxford, North Carolina. Funds will support work to install HVAC, plumbing, electrical and an elevator in the existing interior space. Upon completion by August 2025, the building will serve the public as a multi-purpose community and literacy center while also functioning as a tourist...

This $500,000 Project Grant awarded by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966) supports repairs to the roof, structure, walls, floor, and ceiling of the Congregational Church of Thompson in Thompson, CT. The award aims to preserve this historically significant property in accordance with the Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties. The performance period for this...