Deadline: 19-Oct-20
The Public Affairs Section of the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine is inviting proposals for its U.S. Ambassadors Funds for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Small Grants Program 2021.
The Program aims to preserve cultural sites, cultural objects and collections, forms of traditional cultural expression.
Priority Areas
AFCP gives top priority to project activities that are appropriate and in keeping with international standards for the preservation of cultural heritage. These activities may involve:
- Cultural Sites: This might include (but is not limited to) historic buildings and sites, monuments, and archaeological sites:
- Restoration of a historic building,
- Preservation of an archaeological site;,
- Documentation of sites in a region for preservation purposes.
- Cultural Objects and Collections from a museum, site, or similar institution includes archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation activities:
- Conservation treatment of an object or collection of objects,
- Needs assessment of a collection with respect to its condition and strategies for improving its state of conservation,
- Inventory of a collection for conservation and protection purposes,
- The creation of safe environments for storage or display of collections,
- Specialized training in the care and preservation of collections.
- Forms of Traditional Cultural Expression includes traditional music, dance, indigenous languages, and crafts:
- Documenting and audiovisual recording of traditional music, indigenous languages and dance forms for preservation and broad dissemination,
- Support for training in the preservation of traditional applied arts or crafts that are threatened by extinction.
Funding Information
- The AFCP Small Grants Program will accept proposals for projects valued from $10,000 to $200,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants:
- Registered non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, that are registered and active in SAM.gov and are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- For-profit, commercial entities and individuals are not eligible to apply.
- Other Eligibility Requirements:
- Applicants are only allowed to submit one proposal per organization for AFCP Small Grants Program-2021.
- In order to be eligible to receive an award, all organizations must have a Data Universal Numbering System (DUNS) number from Dun & Bradstreet, as well as a valid registration on SAM.gov.
- Ineligible
- For-profit, commercial entities and individuals are not eligible to apply.
Application And Submission Form
Please ensure:
- The application is maximum 10 pages
- Attachments are sent as one document of maximum 11 pages which include:
- budget form of the suggested format – two pages
- three CVs one page each
- maximum three permissions/letters of support, possible with translation
- Three photos in JPEG format
- All documents are in English. Permissions and letters of support can be in
- Ukrainian with unofficial translation into English sent in the same Attachments document
- All budgets are in U.S. dollars
- All pages are numbered
- The Application is a Microsoft Word document, portrait orientation, singlespaced, 12 point Times New Roman font, with a minimum of 1-inch margins.
- Your project starts in September of 2021 and lasts up to five years maximum.
For more information, visit https://ua.usembassy.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/151/Fin-SG-E-Notice-of-Funding-Opportunity-Small-Grants-Eng-1.pdf