Description: The Alliance of National Heritage Areas: we tell America's significant stories to preserve, conserve, educate and advocate.
National Heritage Areas are a proven model of shared responsibility resulting in a cost-effective approach for the National Park Service to preserve, protect, and share the significant stories of America. We accomplish this through grass-roots coordination with local jurisdictions, non-profits and other private partners to invest in nationally significant sites that in turn spur regional economic development.
Engaged more than 52,000 volunteers in community projects with nearly 840,000 hours of service commitment. That’s an estimated value of nearly $23 million .
Piloted more than 200 unique education programs reaching more than 600,000 people .