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

Deadline: 05-Jan-2025

The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.

Funding Information

• Project applicants can submit applications for AFCP Grants from $25,000 to $500,000.  Projects may range in length from one to five years.

Funding Priorities

• Proposals for projects that meet one or more of the following criteria will receive consideration in FY 2024:
  • Directly support U.S. treaty or bilateral agreement obligations
  • Directly support U.S policies, strategies and objectives in Vietnam
  • Directly support host country or community goals beyond preserving cultural heritage.
  • Support risk reduction and resilience for cultural heritage in disaster-prone or politically unstable and economically disadvantaged areas.
  • Support post-disaster cultural heritage recovery.
  • Complement other U.S. Government Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) or public diplomacy programs.

Project Activities

• Appropriate project activities may include:
  • 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);
  • Documentation (recording in analog or digital format the condition and salient features of an object, site, or tradition);
  • Inventory (listing of objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristic or state);
  • 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 only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings);
  • Stabilization (reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site).

Eligibility Criteria

• Eligible implementers may include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries/ departments of culture, or similar institutions and organizations, including U.S.-based educational institutions and organizations subject to Section 501(c)(3) of the tax code.
• 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.

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 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 classroom use.
  • Archaeology Research: Archaeological excavations or exploratory surveys for research purposes.
  • Historical Research: Historical research, except in cases where the research is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project.
  • New Exhibits or Collections: Acquisition or creation of new exhibits, objects, or collections for new or existing museums.

For more information, visit U.S. Embassy & Consulate in Vietnam.