Deadline: 6-Jan-23
The Embassy of the United States in N’Djamena, on the behalf of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for funding through the U.S Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) to carry out an individual project to preserve cultural heritage in a Chad.
Objectives
- The Department of State established the AFCP at the request of Congress in Conference Report 106-1005 accompanying H.R 4942 (October 26, 2000). The senate report on this bill noted that the preservation of cultural heritage “offers an opportunity to show a different American face to other countries, one that is non-commercial, non-political, and non-military.”
- 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. Appropriate project activities may include:
- Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- Conservation (addressing a damage or deterioration to an object of site)
- Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site)
- Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition)
- Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state)
- 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 only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
- Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object of site).
Funding Information
- Award Amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $500,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- Foreign Institution of Higher Education
- Foreign-based non-profit organization/nongovernment organizations (NGO)
- Foreign Public Entity, where permitted
- S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501 (c)(3))
- S. Institution of Higher Education.
For more information, visit AFCP.