Deadline: 30 November 2019

The U.S. Embassy in Guinea has announced a notice of funding opportunity for the 2020 Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grant Program.

AFCP was established to help countries preserve cultural heritage and to demonstrate U.S. respect for other cultures. The Fund is aimed at preserving cultural sites or objects that have a historical or cultural significance.

The Ambassadors Fund supports projects to preserve a wide range of cultural heritage in less developed countries, including historic buildings, archaeological sites, ethnographic objects, paintings, manuscripts, and indigenous languages and other forms of traditional cultural expression.

Funding Information

Grants usually range from $10,000 to $200,000.

Project Activities

Appropriate project activities may include:

• 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)
• restoration (replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of a site, usually appropriate only with fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings)

How to Apply

All interested applicants must submit their proposals via email at the address given on the website.

For more information, please visit https://gn.usembassy.gov/call-for-applications-2020-ambassadors-fund-for-cultural-preservation/