Deadline: 5-Oct-21
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 2022 Grants Competition of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP).
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:
- Anastylosi s (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 Priorities
Applications for projects that do one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in FY 2022:
- Support US treaty or bilateral agreement obligations
- Support US Embassy priorities
- Support disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in disaster-prone areas
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery support
- Support conflict resolution and help communities bridge differences
- Partner, connect with or feed into other ECA programs
Funding Information
- Floor on A mount 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
Eligibility Criteria
- The Cultural Heritage Center defines eligible project implementers as reputable and accountabl 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 US-based educati onal 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.
- Potential implementers must have a unique entity identifier, such as a DUNS number, and be re gistered and active in SAM.gov to receive US federal assistance.
For more information, visit https://do.usembassy.gov/education-culture/u-s-ambassadors-fund-for-cultural-preservation/