Deadline: 29 December 2017
The Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, Cultural Heritage Center (“The Center”), through the U.S. Embassy in San Salvador, is accepting project abstracts and full applications for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2018 Large Grants Program.
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 the host country.
Activities
- 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)
Funding Priorities
Applications for projects that directly support one or more of the following will receive additional consideration in FY 2018:
- U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property agreements
- Support the goals of promoting economic growth, security, and/or transparency;
- 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
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $500,000
- Award Floor: $200,000
Eligibility Criteria
- The Center defines eligible project applicants as reputable and accountable non-commercial 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 they have the requisite experience and capacity to manage large-scale multi-year projects to preserve cultural heritage.
- The embassy will vet applicants for eligibility, suitability, and reputable performance in cultural preservation or similar activities.
- Embassies will determine whether any country-specific sanctions should be taken into consideration and ensure the applicants are able to receive U.S. federal assistance.
- Past recipients of awards through the AFCP Large Grants Program may submit applications for continuation funds under this call for proposals.
How to Apply
Interested applicants can submit their applications at the address given on the website.
Eligibility Criteria: United States and El Salvador
For more information, please visit grants.gov.