Deadline: 03-Jan-2025
Applications are now open for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation to support U.S. foreign policy and public diplomacy (PD) goals and can contribute to the development of civil society, promote cultural diversity and good governance, create economic opportunity, and help foster political stability.
Goals and Objectives
- In 2025, AFCP will prioritize projects that do one or more of the following:
- Support risk reduction and resilience for cultural heritage in disaster-prone or politically unstable and economically disadvantaged areas.
- Support post-disaster cultural heritage recovery.
Funding Information
- Between $25,000 and $500,000
Duration
- Project Performance Period: Proposed projects should be completed in 60 months or less.
Project Activities
- Appropriate project activities may include:
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
- Conservation: Addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
- Consolidation: Connecting or 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 of an object or site.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- Eligible project implementers must be reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that can demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects that preserve cultural heritage.
- Eligible implementers may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based educational institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
Eligibility Criteria
- The AFCP does not support the following activities:
- 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.).
For more information, visit Grants.gov.