Deadline: 13-Dec-2024
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the U.S. Department of State (the Bureau) and the U.S. Embassy Albania announce an open competition for organizations to submit proposals for funding through the Bureau’s U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation.
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 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.
Funding Information
- Award Amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $25,000 to a maximum of $500,000
Duration
- Length of Performance Period: 12-60 months
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- Foreign Institution of Higher Education
- Foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernment organizations (NGO)
- U.S. Non-Profit Organization (IRC section 501(c)(3))
- U.S. Institution of Higher Education
- The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.
- Eligible Countries: Albania
For more information, visit Grants.gov.