Deadline: 04-Jan-2025
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo and the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) at the U.S. Department of State are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grants Program.
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.
Funding Information
- Funding awards will range from $25,000 to $500,000 per project.
Project Activities
- Appropriate project activities may include the following:
- 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 implementers may include:
- Non-governmental organizations
- Museums
- Educational institutions
- Ministries of Culture, or Similar Institutions
- Organizations, including U.S.-based educational institutions and organizations Subject to section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
Ineligibility Criteria
- 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.
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in Egypt.