Governor launches African American Heritage Grant Program

STATEWIDE — ORGANIZATIONS THAT PROMOTE THE HISTORY AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS MAY NOW APPLY FOR A $3.8 MILLION new grant program, Governor Kathy Hochul announced on Monday, Feb. 16.

The New York State African American Heritage Grant Program will provide funding to assist nonprofit organizations and local governments in documenting, interpreting and preserving places and stories of historical and cultural importance to the African-American experience in New York. Funded through a state appropriation to the Commission on African American History, the grant program was created to educate the public about sites and people connected to a broad spectrum of Black history across New York.

Grants are awarded in two project categories: education and capital planning projects. All eligible projects must focus within the period from 1627, when the first enslaved Africans arrived in New Amsterdam, to 1975, the latter part of the Black Arts and Black Power movements.

Administering the New York State African American Heritage Grant Program is the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, Division for Historic Preservation, in partnership with the New York State Commission on African American History and the New York State Department of State. Detailed information about the grant program is available on the office’s website.

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