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 non-profit entity designed to unite and enhance historic sites and organizations and unite them under a common mission: To preserve and share our region’s history, while encouraging community engagement and facilitating sustainable operations. HEARTS does this by providing our Affiliates with operational and program assistance, efficiently connecting them with state-of-art technology, administrative staff, and robust financial resources to facilitate that allows the public to access up-to-date information in a single platform for all regional people, places, and pieces related to history, ecology, arts, reunion, trails, and historical stores in the Catawba Valley region. Through this collaboration, HEARTS believes the achievement of greater historical goals and their safeguarding through financial sustainability is attainable for all historic sites and organizations.

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 will benefit from collaboration among historic sites and with community resources to achieve measurable benefits to both the sites and the community.

HEARTS extends an invitation to all public and private historic, ecological, artistic, and genealogical sites and organizations in the Catawba Valley region to join our collaborative initiative and gain from our collaborative connection, elevation, research, preservation, and management services by becoming an Affiliate Member.