Deadline: 24 December 2017
The U.S. Embassy has announced the launch of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2018 Competition.
Vietnamese non‐commercial entities may submit proposals of $200,000 or more for projects to preserve cultural heritage in Vietnam.
Funding Information
- Award Ceiling: $999,000
- Award Floor: $200,000
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
- 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
- Grants may be made to Vietnamese non‐commercial entities, such as non‐governmental organizations, museums, ministries/departments 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 individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients which have not fulfilled the reporting requirements of previous AFCP awards.
How to Apply
Applications must be submitted via email at the address given on the website.
Eligible Countries: Vietnam
For more information, please visit 2018 Large Grants Competition.