Deadline: 15-Jan-2025
The U.S. Embassy & Consulates in South Africa has launched the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program.
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.
Categories and Focus Area
- Options for Project Category and Focus Area
- Cultural Objects and Collections
- Archaeological Collections
- Ethnographic Objects
- General Museum Conservation
- Manuscripts
- Paintings and Sculpture
- Cultural Sites
- Archaeological Sites
- Historic Buildings and Sites
- Forms of Traditional Cultural Expression
- Craft
- Dance
- Drama
- Language
- Music
- Ceremony
- Traditional Knowledge
- Cultural Objects and Collections
Funding Information
- Award amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $500,000
- Total expected funding: $30,000 to $1,500,000
Duration
- Length of performance period: 12 to 60 months
Funding Priorities
- In FY 2025, ECA will prioritize projects that do one or more of the following:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations.
- Directly support U.S. policies, strategies, and objectives as stated in the National Security Strategy, Integrated Country Strategy, or other U.S. government planning documents.
- Directly support host country or community goals beyond preserving cultural heritage.
- Support risk reduction and resilience for cultural heritage in disaster-prone or politically unstable and economically disadvantaged areas.
Project 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)
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible implementers may include foreign institutions of higher education, foreign public entities (governments), non-governmental organizations, non-profit museums, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based higher education 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 that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.
- Applicants are allowed to submit up to two applications per organization. Implementers must be registered and active in the U.S. government’s System for Award Management (SAM) to receive U.S. federal assistance.
Ineligibility Criteria
- The following activities will cause an application to be deemed ineligible:
- 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, geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
- Preservation of hominid or human remains.
- Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio, and TV programs, etc.)
For more information, visit U.S. Embassy & Consulates in South Africa.