Deadline: 10 December 2018
The U.S. Mission to Nigeria of the U.S. Department of State is seeking applications for its program entitled “Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation 2019 Large Grants.”
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.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $800,000
- Award Floor: $200,000
Funding Areas
The Department of State supports projects to preserve cultural heritage in the following three areas:
- 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
The AFCP will recommend for funding those proposals that include project activities in adherence to the following guidelines and to international standards for the preservation of cultural heritage. These activities may include:
- Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations, such as cultural property protection agreements;
- U.S. Embassy Integrated Country Strategy (ICS) goals
- 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
- Public and State controlled institutions of higher education
- State governments
- County governments
- Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education
- City or township governments
How to Apply
Proposals should be submitted online to the U.S. Mission to Nigeria at the address given on the website.
For more information, please visit grants.gov.