Deadline: 6 January 2017
The U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar is seeking applications for its “2017 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Small Grants Competition” with an aim to support cultural heritage preservation in developing countries.
Focus Areas
AFCP supports projects to preserve cultural heritage in the following three (3) areas:
- Cultural Sites: Historical buildings and archaeological sites.
- Cultural Objects and Collections: Archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation needs.
- Forms Of Traditional Cultural Expression: Traditional music, indigenous languages, and crafts.
Funding Priorities
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property protection agreements.
- Support the preservation of inscribed UNESCO World Heritage sites.
- Support disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage and post-disaster cultural heritage recovery in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas.
- Engage women, youth, or under-served communities.
Funding Information
- Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $10,000 per project.
- Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: $200,000 per project.
Eligibility Criteria
- AFCP defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- Specifically an estimated number of non-US and US participants and estimated number of primary and secondary participants, as well as resumes of the proposed project director and other primary project participants.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted in English Language via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: United States and Mongolia.
For more information, please visit AFCP Small Grants Competition.