Key Accomplishments
Since its inception as a nonprofit organization in January 2005 , the Center has provided legal advice and consultation to more than 365 applicants, 43 legal seminars have been conducted with 912 persons in attendance. The Center produced an award winning video for persons who cannot read our printed brochure and 1700 persons have benefited from educational seminars, brochures and the video. The Center has successfully resolved 11 heirs' property cases, with cases reaching the end of the pipeline by either having titles cleared or heirs determined.
Award Recipient
The Center was the recipient of the 2007 South Carolina African American Heritage Commission, Preserving Our Places in History Award. The Center was recognized for its work in providing education and legal services to African Americans in the Lowcountry on how to preserve heirs' property.
The Center's Story is Published
The story of heirs' property in the Lowcountry and the creation of the Heirs' Property Preservation Project (the Project), the Center's predecessor, are captured in the book Breakthrough Communities: Sustainability and Justice in the Next American Metropolis. As a grantee of the Sustainable Metropolitan Communities portfolio of former Ford Foundation program officer Carl Anthony, Faith Rivers (now a professor at Elon Law School) and Jennie Stephens, former senior program director at Coastal Community Foundation, were asked to write about heirs' property and the Project.
The Center's story is one of 33 stories included in Breakthrough Communities, which focuses on regional equity issues, issues of race, and connection to place and offers models for organizing and action.
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