Deadline: 12-Jan-2025
The U.S. Embassy is now accepting applications for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grants Program!
The State Department’s Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) supports country-specific projects that preserve cultural sites, cultural objects and collections, and forms of traditional expression.
Areas
- Through the AFCP Program, the Department of State supports projects to preserve cultural heritage in the following three areas:
- Cultural Sites: such as, but not limited to, historic buildings and archaeological sites;
- Cultural Objects and Collections from a museum, site, or similar institution: that include, but are not limited to, archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation needs; and,
- Forms of Traditional Cultural Expression: such as traditional music, indigenous languages, and crafts.
Funding Information
- Awards may range from a minimum of $25,000 to a maximum of $500,000.
Duration
- Length of Performance Period: 12 to 60 months
Eligible Activities
- 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)
Eligibility Criteria
- The Embassy defines eligible applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that can demonstrate they have the requisite capacity and permission to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage in Tanzania.
- Eligible implementers may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministry of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S. based educational institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c) (3) of the tax code.
- The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients who have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of the previous awards.
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy in Tanzania.