[3] The program was conceived as a means towards creating greater resilience and capacity for sensitive and threatened places that tell the stories of Black American history.
Support from the fund has aided the stabilization and restoration of numerous structures and properties from churches to cemeteries, from the Harriet Tubman Home in Auburn, New York to the Cleveland Public Theater in Ohio.
The Action Fund has an advisory council which includes Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, literary critic and author Henry Louis Gates Jr., educator and historian Lonnie Bunch and actress Phylicia Rashad to name a few.
[5] Simultaneously to fixing dilapidated or threatened bricks and mortar projects, the goal of the fund is also to effect social change in neglected neighborhoods.
According to Leggs, its executive director, the Action Fund next plans to partner with Black churches as part of an investment in revitalizing community religious centers.