HEARTS Affiliates

HEARTS delivers creative, robust and results-driven assistance to our Affiliate Members to support the achievement of their strategic missions and goals.

In May 2024, HEARTS Collaborative Inc. (HEARTS) was granted IRS 501(c)3 status to be a comprehensive umbrella non-profit designed to connect and enhance historic sites and organizations, to preserve and share our region’s history, while encouraging community engagement and facilitating sustainable operations for new and existing historic sites.

HEARTS offers a customizable Affiliate service providing operational and program assistance, technology, marketing, and financial resources. HEARTS believes the achievement of greater historic preservation and safeguarding through financial sustainability is attainable with strategic planning and oversight.

Our region has an incredibly vast and diverse cultural and natural history. This history is made up of many special places - some with stories we know, some with stories lost, and some with stories still being discovered and shared. Many of these historic sites have huge potential to reach much wider audiences to share this history, as well as to support ongoing preservation and public programming. Each of these special places benefits from collaboration to achieve measurable benefits to both the sites and the community.

HEARTS extends an invitation to assist and connect with historic, ecological, artistic, and genealogical sites and organizations in the Catawba Valley region.