Deadline: 20 December 2017
Applications are open for the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation Large Grants Program to support large scale, partnership-based projects to preserve significant cultural heritage sites in Turkey.
Funding Information
Floor (Minimum) on Amount of Awards: $200,000 per project.
Funding Areas
The AFCP Large Grants Program supports the preservation of major ancient archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, and major museum collections that are accessible to the public and protected by law in Turkey. Appropriate project activities may include:
- Preventive conservation (addressing conditions that damage or threaten the site)
- Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance [settling, collapse, etc.] of a site)
- Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to a collection or sites)
- Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of a site)
- Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts)
- Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of a site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)
Special Priorities of 2018 Competition
- U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements
- Disaster risk reduction for cultural heritage in seismically active and other disaster-prone areas
- Post-disaster cultural heritage recovery
- Preservation of inscribed World Heritage sites
Eligibility Criteria
- Only reputable and accountable noncommercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, ministries of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code, that are able to demonstrate that they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage projects to preserve cultural heritage can apply.
- The applicants are also required to have previous large-scale international project experience.
- AFCP does not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or to embassies or past award recipients who have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
- This opportunity consists of two application rounds:
- Round 1 is for collecting detailed project abstracts
- Round 2 is for selected applicants to submit their full proposals
- Proposal must be submitted in English in word format at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Turkey and United States
For more information, please visit U.S. Embassy in Turkey.