U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program – Cameroon

Deadline: 10-Jan-2025
The U.S. Embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon, is now accepting applications for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program.

The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) helps protect historic buildings, archaeological sites, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions like indigenous languages and crafts around the world.

Funding Information

• Grants range from U.S. $ 25,000 to $500,000.

Duration

• Projects may range in length from one to five years.

Participants and Audiences

• Local communities, government agencies, educational institutions, tourists, and others interested in cultural heritage and preservation.

Desired activities 

• Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
• Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
• Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
• Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
• Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
• Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
• Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
• Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.

Eligibility Criteria

• Only these types or organizations may apply:
  • Foreign Institutions of Higher Education
  • Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)
  • Foreign Public Entities (where permitted)
  • Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions
  • U.S. Institutions of Higher Education
  • U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS section 501(c)(3))

Ineligibility Criteria

• AFCP does not support the following activities:
  • Privately or Commercially Owned Property: Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or real property, including those whose transfer from private or commercial to public ownership is envisioned, planned, or in process but not complete at the time of application.
  • Natural Heritage: Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
  • Human Remains: Preservation of Hominid or human remains.
  • News Media: Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.).
  • Published Materials: Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.).
  • Mandated Educational Materials: Development of curricula or educational materials for required classroom use.

For more information, visit Grants.gov.