FY2023 Historic Preservation Fund- African American Civil Rights - AACRN Preservation

The National Park Service’s (NPS) African American Civil Rights Grant Program (AACR) will document, interpret, and preserve the sites and stories of the full history of the African American struggle to gain equal rights as citizens from the transatlantic slave trade forward. The NPS 2008 report, Civil Rights in America, A Framework for Identifying Significant Sites, will serve as a guide in determining the appropriateness of proposed projects and properties. African American Civil Rights Network (AACRN) Preservation Grants are funded by the Historic Preservation Fund (HPF), administered by the NPS, and will fund a broad range of preservation projects for historic sites including: architectural services, historic structure reports, preservation plans, and physical preservation to structures. Grants are awarded through a competitive process and do not require non-Federal match.FY2023 Public Law 117-328 provides $24 million for the AACR Grant Program, of that $5 million is available for these AACRN Preservation Grants.

Eligible applicants are current members of the National Park Service African American Civil Rights Network. For information on membership in the African American Civil Rights Network, contact aacrn@nps.gov .