Support Visit Gee's Bend

Help sustain community-led cultural tourism in Gee’s Bend and Alberta, Alabama—supporting local artists, storytellers, and small businesses while preserving a living cultural legacy.

Visit Gee’s Bend is a community-centered cultural tourism initiative that invites visitors to experience Gee’s Bend and neighboring Alberta, Alabama through art, history, landscape, and lived tradition.

Your support helps build and sustain responsible tourism infrastructure—ensuring that increased visibility translates into direct benefit for the people who call this place home.

Funds raised through this campaign support:

• Community-led tourism planning and coordination

• Wayfinding, interpretive signage, and visitor resources

• The Gee’s Bend Heritage Trail and River Gallery experiences

• Local programming, events, and storytelling initiatives

• Capacity-building for artists, makers, guides, and community organizations

Visit Gee’s Bend is rooted in long-term stewardship, economic opportunity, and cultural respect. Contributions help ensure that growth is thoughtful, locally informed, and aligned with community priorities.

Why Your Support Matters

Gee’s Bend holds an extraordinary place in American cultural history—but sustaining that legacy requires ongoing investment. Tourism, when done responsibly, can support artists, strengthen local organizations, and create meaningful opportunities for future generations.

Your donation helps ensure that visitors encounter Gee’s Bend not as a destination to consume, but as a community to engage—with dignity, care, and mutual benefit.

Visit Gee’s Bend is a project of Souls Grown Deep, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and the communities of Gee’s Bend and Alberta, Alabama.