Deadline: 14-Jan-25
The U.S. Mission to Bangladesh is now accepting applications for its Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2025.
Focus Areas
- The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Funding Information
- Grant amount: Award may range from a minimum of $25,000 to a maximum of $500,000 per project
- Duration: 12 to 60 months
Eligible Activities
- Appropriate project activities may include:
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site from its original parts.
- Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
- Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
- Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
- Inventory: Listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic.
- Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
- Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
- Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.
Ineligible Activities
- AFCP will not support the following activities or costs, and applications involving any of the activities or costs below will be deemed ineligible:
- Privately or Commercially Owned Property: Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or real property, including those whose transfer from private or commercial to public ownership is envisioned, planned, or in process but not complete at the time of application.
- Natural Heritage: Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
- Human Remains: Preservation of Hominid or human remains.
- News Media: Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.)
- Published Materials: Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.)
- Mandated Educational Materials: Development of curricula or educational materials for required classroom use.
- Archaeological Research: Archaeological excavations or exploratory survey for research purposes.
- Historical Research: Historical research, except in cases where the research is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project.
- New Exhibits or Collections: Acquisition or creation of new exhibits, objects, or collections for new or existing museums.
- New or Modern adaptations: Creation of new or modern adaptation of existing traditional dances, songs, chants, musical compositions, plays, or other performances.
- Conjectural Reconstructions: Creation of conjectural reconstructions of cultural objects or sites that no longer exist.
- Relocation: Relocation of cultural sites from one physical location to another unless under imminent threat or irreversible damage or destruction.
- Removal: Removal of cultural objects or elements of cultural sites from the country for any reason.
- Digitization: Digitization of cultural objects or collections, unless part of a clearly defined conservation, documentation, or PD effort.
- Conservation Plans or Studies: Conservation plans or other studies, unless they are one component of a larger project to implement the results of those studies.
- Cash Reserves or Endowments: Cash reserves, endowments, or revolving funds (fund must be expended within the award period [up to five year] and may not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund.)
- Fund-Raising Campaigns: Costs of fund-raising campaigns.
- Contingency Costs: Contingency, unforeseen, or miscellaneous costs.
- Pre-Award Costs: Costs of work performed prior to the announcement of the award unless allowable per 2CFR 200.458 and approved by the Grant Officer.
- International Travel: International travel outside the project country, except in cases where travel is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project or to provide project leaders with learning and exchange opportunities with cultural heritage experts.
- Project Cost Limits: Individual projects which cost less than US $25,000 or more than $500,000.
- Independent U.S. Projects: Independent U.S. projects overseas.
Eligibility Criteria
- Only these types or organizations may apply:
- Foreign Institutions of Higher Education
- Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
- Foreign Public Entities (where permitted)
- Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions
- U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
- U.S. Non-Profit Organizations
Ineligibility Criteria
- The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.
Application Requirements
- Please ensure that:
- All documents are in English
- All budgets are in U.S. dollars
- All pages are numbered
- All documents are formatted to 8 ½ x 11 paper, and
- All Microsoft Word documents are single-spaced, 12-point font, with a minimum of 1-inch margins.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.
