Deadline: 14 December 2018
The U.S. Embassy Guatemala, Public Affairs Section (PAS) of the U.S. Department of State has announced this Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for the 2019 Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Small Grant Program.
Funding Areas
The AFCP Small Grants Competition supports the preservation of cultural sites, cultural objects and collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression. Appropriate project activities may include:
- In the case of cultural sites: conservation of an ancient or historic building, preservation of an archaeological site, or documentation of cultural sites in a region for preservation purposes
- In the case of cultural objects and collections: conservation treatment for an object or collection of objects 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; needs assessment of a collection with respect to its condition and strategies for improving its state of conservation; inventory of a collection for conservation and protection purposes; the creation of safe environments for storage or display of collections; or specialized training in the care and preservation of collections
- In the case of forms of traditional cultural expression: documentation and audiovisual recording of traditional music, indigenous languages and dance forms for broad dissemination as the means of teaching and further preserving them, or support for training in the preservation of traditional applied arts or crafts in danger of extinction
Funding Information
Requests for funding amounts between $10,000 and $200,000 will be considered through this NOFO.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Applicants
- The Public Affairs Section encourages applications from U.S. and Guatemala
- Registered not-for-profit organizations, including think tanks and civil society/non-governmental organizations with programming experience
- Individuals
- Non-profit or governmental educational institutions
- For-profit or commercial entities are not eligible to apply.
How to Apply
Applicants can submit their application via email at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit https://bit.ly/2FoM14F