Deadline: 29 December 2016
The U.S. Embassy in Amman, Jordan is seeking proposals for its 2017 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Small Grants Programme with a motive to help countries preserve their cultural heritage and to demonstrate U.S. respect for different cultures around the world.
Funding Areas
AFCP Small Grants Competition supports projects to preserve cultural heritage in the following three areas:
- Cultural Sites such as, (but is not limited to) historic buildings and archaeological sites.
- Cultural Objects and Collections from a museum, site, or similar institution that include, but are not limited to archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts and general museum conservation needs.
- Forms of Traditional Cultural Expression such as traditional music, indigenous languages and crafts.
Funding Priorities
Proposals for projects that meet one or more of the following criteria will receive consideration in FY 2017:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property protection agreements.
- Support the preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites.
- Support risk reduction and disaster preparedness for cultural sites and collections in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas.
- Engage women, youth, or under-served communities.
Funding Information
- Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $10,000 per project.
- Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: $200,000 per project.
Eligiblity Criteria
- Eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or to embassies or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
Interested applicants must download the application form via given website.
For more information, please visit 2017 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation.
