Deadline: 31-Dec-2024
The Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation is the U.S. government’s flagship program to promote cultural heritage preservation and protection worldwide.
Objectives
- The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world.
- The projects selected to receive funding through the AFCP Grants Program will advance U.S. diplomatic goals and demonstrate the depth of U.S. respect for the cultural heritage of Pakistan. Proposals will advance U.S foreign policy objectives and demonstrates U.S. leadership in the preservation and protection of cultural heritage around the world.
Funding Information
- Floor on amount of Individual Awards: US $25,000 per project
- Ceiling on amount of Individual Awards: US $500,000 per project
Funding 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. Project activities may include:
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using 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 objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
- 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.
Funding Priorities
- In FY 2025, applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations.
- Directly support U.S. policies, strategies, and objectives as stated in the National Security Strategy, Integrated Country Strategy, or other U.S. government planning documents.
- Directly support host country or community goals beyond preserving cultural heritage.
- Support risk reduction and resilience for cultural heritage in disaster-prone or politically unstable and economically disadvantaged areas.
- Support post-disaster cultural heritage recovery.
- Complement other ECA or Public Diplomacy programs.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. Mission Pakistan defines eligible project implementers as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that can demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage. Only these types of 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 (IRS section 501(c)(3))
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Pakistan.
