The Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that protects heirs’ property and promotes its sustainable use to provide increased economic benefit to historically under-served families.

The Center for Heirs' Property Preservation is unique in that it  provides legal and forestry education and services to protect heirs' property and to provide the sustainable use of land to provide increased economic benefit to historically underserved landowners. In South Carolina, heirs' property is land owned primarily by African Americans who have passed down their land through generations without a will. That land is then owned "in common" by all of the heirs and is vulnerable to loss. The Center is the only non profit in S.C. providing free, comprehensive education and legal services to help HP owners to protect and keep their land. Currently the Center provides full legal and forestry services in 28 S.C. counties: Aiken, Allendale, Bamberg, Barnwell, Beaufort, Berkeley, Calhoun, Charleston, Chesterfield, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Dillon, Dorchester, Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Jasper, Kershaw,  Lee, Lexington, Marion, Marlboro, Orangeburg, Richland, Sumter and Williamsburg

To date, the Center has provided 5,160 persons with free, one-hour “Advice and Counsel” (A&C) with 1,509 clients receiving direct legal services to clear title. A total of 1,597 simple wills have been drafted at free, community Wills Clinics, and 389 titles have been cleared on family land with a total tax-assessed value of $28.2 million. On the forestry side, more than 503 families (owning in excess of 40,000 acres) have benefited from education and technical assistance.