Deadline: 21-Nov-22
The U.S. Embassy Santo Domingo on behalf of the Cultural Heritage Center in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) is accepting project concept notes for the 2023 Grants Competition of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP).
Priorities
- Applications for projects that do one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in FY 2023:
- Support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations
- Support U.S. Embassy priorities
- Support disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster-prone areas
- Support post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Support conflict resolution and help communities bridge differences
- Partner, connect with or feed into other ECA programs
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).
Funding Information
- Floor on Amount of Individual Awards: US $10,000 per project
- Ceiling on Amount of Individual Awards: US $500,000 per project
- Anticipated Number of Awards: 30 – 40
Eligible Project Implementers
- The Cultural Heritage Center defines eligible project implementers as reputable and accountable non-commercial entities that are able to demonstrate they have the requisite capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage. Eligible implementers may include:
- non-governmental organizations,
- museums,
- educational institutions,
- ministries 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.
For more information, visit https://do.usembassy.gov/education-culture/u-s-ambassadors-fund-for-cultural-preservation/
