Deadline: 15-Nov-20
The U.S. Embassy is pleased to announce the launch of the U.S. Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2021 Competition.
Funding priority
Proposals for projects that meet one or more of the following criteria will receive consideration in FY 2021:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property protection agreements;
- Support U.S. Embassy Integrated Country Strategies;
- Support risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster-prone areas or post-disaster cultural heritage recovery;
- Support conflict resolution and help communities bridge differences;
- Partner, connect with, or feed into other ECA or public diplomacy programs.
Grants Information
- Project applicants can submit applications for AFCP Grants from $10,000 to $500,000.
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. 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).
Eligible Project Applicants
- Eligible project applicants are defined as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite capacity to manage cultural heritage preservation projects. This may include Vietnamese non-commercial entities, non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries/ departments of culture, or similar institutions and organizations.
- Project applicants must be registered and active in SAM.gov. AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients who have not fulfilled the reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
Ineligible Activities and Unallowable Costs
- 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; - Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.);
- Preservation of hominid or human remains;
- Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.);
- Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.);
- Development of curricula or educational materials for classroom use;
- Archaeological excavations or exploratory surveys for research purposes;
- Historical research, except in cases where the research is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project;
- Acquisition or creation of new exhibits, objects, or collections for new or existing museums;
- Construction of new buildings, building additions, or permanent coverings (over archaeological sites, for example);
- Commissions of new works of art or architecture for commemorative or economic development purposes;
- Creation of new or the modern adaptation of existing traditional dances, songs, chants, musical compositions, plays, or other performances;
- Creation of replicas or conjectural reconstructions of cultural objects or sites that no longer exist;
- Relocation of cultural sites from one physical location to another;
- Removal of cultural objects or elements of cultural sites from the country for any reason;
- Digitization of cultural objects or collections, unless part of a larger, clearly defined conservation or documentation effort;
- Conservation plans or other studies, unless they are one component of a larger project to implement the results of those studies;
- Cash reserves, endowments, or revolving funds (funds must be expended within the award period [up to five years] and may not be used to create an endowment or revolving fund);
- Costs of fund-raising campaigns;
- Contingency, unforeseen, or miscellaneous costs or fees;
- Costs of work performed prior to announcement of the award;
- International travel, except in cases where travel is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project or to provide project leaders with learning and exchange opportunities with cultural heritage experts;
- Individual projects costing less than US $10,000 or more than $500,000;
- Independent U.S. projects overseas.
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