Preserving Black Churches Recipient 

Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church has received $200,000 from the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund, a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 

This funding is a part of the Action Fund’s Preserving Black Churches program and will support the 2nd Century Project, a three-phase plan to rescue this historic building. 

Scotland A.M.E. Zion Church is one of 35 organizations in 22 states to receive a total of $4 million in grant funding to advance long-term and sustainable strategies that strengthen stewardship and asset management, interpretation and programming, and fundraising activities for historic Black churches across the country. This program works to uplift the legacy of often-overlooked Black churches, ensuring their capacities to serve the spiritual and social needs of their communities for years to come.  

To preserve and uplift America’s historic places, the Lilly Endowment Inc. and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund are investing in a $20 million initiative to help historic Black churches and congregations reimagine, redesign, and redeploy historic preservation to address the institutions’ needs and the cultural assets and stories they steward. 

The African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund is a program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in partnership with the Ford Foundation, The JPB Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and other partners, working to make an important and lasting contribution to our cultural landscape by elevating the stories and places of African American resilience, activism, and achievement. 

To learn more about this program and this year’s grant recipients, visit SavingPlaces.org/BlackChurches.