Deadline: 10-Dec-22
The U.S. Mission in Mexico and the Department of State’s, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) are pleased to announce the call for proposals for the 2023 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP).
The fund was created in order to support other countries to preserve their cultural heritage and demonstrate the respect that the United States has for other cultures, their prosperity and stability around the world.
Objectives
- 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 damage or deterioration to an object or 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 or site).
Funding Information
- Through the AFCP Program, the Department of State supports projects between $10,000 and $500,000 dollars to preserve the cultural heritage of Mexico in the following three areas:
- Cultural Sites: Conservation of ancient or historic buildings, preservation of archaeological sites, or documentation of cultural sites in a region for preservation purposes.
- Cultural Property And Collections: conservation treatment of a property or collection of property of a museum, site or similar institution that includes, among others, archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculptures, manuscripts and general conservation needs of the museum; needs assessment of a collection regarding its condition and strategies to improve its state of conservation; inventory of a collection for conservation and protection purposes; creation of secure environments for the storage or display of collections; or specialized training for the care and preservation of collections.
- Forms Of Cultural And Traditional Expressions: Documentation and audiovisual recording of traditional music, indigenous languages and dance forms for their wide dissemination as a means of teaching and subsequent conservation, or support for training in the preservation of traditional arts or crafts in danger of extinction .
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- Foreign Institution of Higher Education
- Foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO)
- Foreign Public Entity, where permitted
- U.S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501(c)(3))
- U.S. Institution of Higher Education .
For more information, visit https://mx.usembassy.gov/call-for-the-ambassadors-fund-for-the-preservation-of-cultural-heritage-2023/