The U.S. Embassy in Armenia announces a call for proposals for the Ambassador’s Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) pending availability of funds.
The program will be implemented through the Cultural Heritage Center in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.
Categories
AFCP supports preservation projects in the following categories:
A Cultural Site or Sites – Conservation of an ancient or historic building, preservation of an archaeological site, or documentation of cultural sites in a region for preservation purposes.
An Object or Collection of Objects – Conservation treatment for 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; or specialized training in the care and preservation of collections.
Intangible forms of Traditional Cultural Heritage Expression – Preservation may include documentation and audiovisual recordings of oral histories, language, traditional music and dance, traditional art, culinary, and rituals, etc., for broad dissemination as a means of teaching and further preserving them, or support for training in the preservation of traditional applied arts or crafts in danger of extinction.
Funding Information
Funding amount: $10,000 per project (minimum) to $500,000 per project (maximum).
Duration
Applicants may propose project periods of up to 60 months [five years]
Types of Project Activities
In all three categories, appropriate project activities may include:
Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition).
Preventative Conservation (addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition). Note: This type of activity could also be applied to preservation of intangible heritage.
Anastylosis (reassembling a site from its original parts).
Conservation (addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site).
Consolidation (connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site).
Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state).
Restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings).
Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site).
Who can apply?
Reputable and accountable non-commercial entities, such as non-governmental organizations, museums, state non-profit organizations, 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. They encourage proposals that include non-U.S. government cost-sharing (including in-kind).
The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.
Potential implementers must be registered and active in the U.S. government’s System for Award Management (SAM) to receive U.S. federal assistance.
