A BHA initiative
Work created and led by Brunson Heritage Association.
Work
Work that
carries forward.
BHA develops, incubates, and partners on work that helps Black families and communities protect property, preserve significant places, strengthen intergenerational ties, and build institutions that endure.
Some projects begin with BHA. Some are built with partners. Others are supported while they grow into something more durable.
See how the work takes shapeHow the work takes shape
Different projects need different kinds of support.
BHA-incubated
Emerging projects BHA helps develop toward greater independence, permanence, or institutional capacity.
In partnership
Work developed alongside communities, institutions, funders, or other organizations with shared responsibility.
BHA may also provide selective fiscal sponsorship for mission-aligned charitable work as that practice develops.
A BHA initiative
Brunson Heritage
Our first work began with our own family.
Brunson Heritage brings together family gathering, property stewardship, intergenerational planning, and care for the places and traditions that bind generations together.
It is where BHA began testing a larger idea: that continuity depends not only on what families remember, but on what they protect, prepare, and pass forward.
- Gathering
- Property
- Planning
- Place
- Tradition
In development
Some work begins before it has a public name.
BHA is developing new work around family property, historic places, intergenerational stewardship, and new cultural institutions. We share new projects when the relationships and foundation needed to grow responsibly are in place.
Family property
Work that helps families think across ownership, succession, stewardship, and long-term continuity.
Significant places
Work involving homes, land, neighborhoods, and culturally important sites that deserve protection and continued use.
Intergenerational stewardship
Work that helps families and communities prepare responsibilities, traditions, and shared assets for the next generation.
Cultural institutions
Work that helps promising projects grow into durable organizations, initiatives, or public-serving institutions.
What connects the work
The projects may look different.
The question is the same.
What should still be here a generation from now?
BHA looks for work where family, place, property, and institutions intersect — and where thoughtful stewardship can change what gets carried forward.
- Family
- Place
- Property
- Institutions
- Continuity
What BHA looks for
Work belongs here when it can become more durable because BHA is involved.
Intergenerational
The work matters beyond one moment or one generation.
Rooted
It has a meaningful relationship to people, place, property, or community.
Public-serving
Its benefits extend beyond a narrow private interest.
Buildable
There is a credible path from idea to sustained work.
Stewarded
Ownership, responsibility, rights, and long-term care can be made clear.
Early-stage work
Not everything we are building is public yet.
Some initiatives require time to secure relationships, clarify stewardship, assemble resources, or establish the right governance before they are introduced publicly. BHA treats that early stage as part of the work — not as something to rush past.
A next step
Have something that should last?
If you are protecting family property, preserving a meaningful place, or building a project meant to serve future generations, we should know each other.