Deadline: 5 December 2018
The U.S. Embassy in Ukraine has announced a call for proposals for the 2019 U.S. Ambassadors Funds for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Small Grants Program that aims to preserve cultural sites, cultural objects and collections, forms of traditional cultural expression.
AFCP gives top priority to project activities that are appropriate and in keeping with international standards for the preservation of cultural heritage.
Funding Information
The minimum award amount is $10,000 and the maximum is $200,000.
Activities
These activities may involve:
- CULTURAL SITES. This might include (but is not limited to) historic buildings and sites, monuments, and archaeological sites:
- Restoration of a historic building;
- Preservation of an archaeological site;
- Documentation of sites in a region for preservation purposes.
- CULTURAL OBJECTS AND COLLECTIONS from a museum, site, or similar institution includes archaeological and ethnographic objects, paintings, sculpture, manuscripts, and general museum conservation activities:
- Conservation treatment of an object or collection of objects;
- 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;
- Specialized training in the care and preservation of collections.
- FORMS OF TRADITIONAL CULTURAL EXPRESSION includes traditional music, dance, indigenous languages, and crafts:
- Documenting and audiovisual recording of traditional music, indigenous languages and dance forms for preservation and broad dissemination;
- Support for training in the preservation of traditional applied arts or crafts that are threatened by extinction.
Eligibility Criteria
- Reputable and accountable nongovernmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- AFCP does not award grants to commercial entities and individuals.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should send their application form via e-mail at the address given on the website.
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