Project Grant S215N220008

The Brookland Center for Community Economic Change (BCCEC) was awarded a $499,576 project grant from the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program to rehabilitate the former Lakeview School in West Columbia, South Carolina. The Lakeview School was the last segregated school for black residents in Lexington County. With this funding, BCCEC will renovate approximately 3,400 square feet of the former school's interior space in the first phase of the project. This will...

The Lower Richland Alumni Foundation received a $800,000 project grant award from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Congressionally Recommended Awards program (CFDA 16.753) to implement the Community Cares Project. The Foundation will work with local law enforcement and community groups in rural areas near Columbia, South Carolina to decrease crime rates and promote culture change. A full-time Project Manager will oversee strategic...

This $2,500,000 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant, awarded by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (CFDA #14.889), will fund the ongoing replacement of the Naomi Jackson Heights severely distressed public housing site in Shreveport, Louisiana with high-quality mixed-income housing. Key activities include site improvements, resident relocation, demolition of existing public housing units, and construction of approximately 380 new mixed-income units, including 220...

This $500,000 project grant from the National Park Service will support the rehabilitation of the George Alexander Towns residence in Atlanta, Georgia. The residence, built in 1910 and located in the Atlanta University Center Historic District, will be adaptively reused as a community education space through repairs to address water infiltration and fire/smoke damage issues. Preserve Black Atlanta, Inc. will convert the home of the early 20th century civil rights trailblazer into a cultural...

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...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) awarded a $1,999,969 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant under the CFDA 14.900 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant Program to Young Adult Development In Actn Inc. (dba YouthBuild Louisville), a non-profit organization in Louisville, Kentucky. The 3.5-year project aims to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in privately-owned low-income housing to protect children under age six from lead poisoning. Key activities will include lead inspections,...

The Department of the Interior National Park Service awarded a $1,227,260 Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid (CFDA 15.904) Project Grant to the Lincoln High School Preservation Alumni Association, Inc., a minority and Black American owned non-profit organization, for the preservation and rehabilitation of the Lincoln High School in Sumter, South Carolina. The grant funds will support hazardous material abatement, preservation of interior features, and rehabilitation of the first-floor wing...

The Housing Authority of the City of Bridgeport, doing business as Park City Communities, has been awarded a $500,000 Choice Neighborhoods Implementation Grant by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under CFDA 14.889. This grant will fund comprehensive neighborhood revitalization efforts in Bridgeport, CT focused on redeveloping severely distressed public and/or HUD-assisted housing. The project aims to transform the neighborhood by replacing distressed housing with...

This Project Grant award of $694,522 was provided by the Department of the Interior National Park Service National Office under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program (CFDA 15.904) to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation, Inc. The funding will support the exterior repairs, roof replacement, and mothballing of the historic Eleanor Roosevelt Rosenwald School site in Warm Springs, Georgia. The project aims to document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories related to...

The Department of Housing and Urban Development's Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control awarded a $1,833,082 Lead Hazard Reduction Grant to the Northern Cheyenne Tribal Housing Authority on April 15, 2024. The grant supports a comprehensive effort to identify and control lead-based paint hazards in privately-owned low-income housing within the Northern Cheyenne reservation in Lame Deer, Montana. Key activities include lead inspections, risk assessments, interim controls, and...