U.S. AMBASSADORS FUND FOR CULTURAL PRESERVATION GRANTS PROGRAM FY2023

The U.S. Embassy in Dhaka is accepting Concept Notes for the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) fiscal year 2023 competition. The AFCP Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression. Eligible project applicants include non-governmental organizations, museums, educational institutions, ministries of culture, and similar institutions and organizations. The program will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards. Key activities that may be included in the project are: • 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)