Funder: U.S. Mission to Bangladesh
Due Dates: January 14, 2025 (Application Deadline)
Funding Amounts: Awards range from $25,000 to $500,000 per project
Summary: Supports preservation of cultural heritage including archaeological sites, historic buildings, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions in Bangladesh.
Key Information: Grants may include projects involving sites or objects with religious connections if their significance is primarily cultural, not religious.
Description
The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2025 Grants Program, administered by the U.S. Mission to Bangladesh, provides funding to support the preservation of cultural heritage in Bangladesh. This includes archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and traditional cultural expressions such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Eligible project activities encompass a wide range of preservation efforts, including:
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site from its original parts.
- Conservation: Treating damage or deterioration to objects or sites.
- Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
- Documentation: Recording conditions and important features in analog or digital formats.
- Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other characteristics.
- Preventive Conservation: Addressing threats or damaging conditions.
- Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate original appearances, especially for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
- Stabilization: Reducing physical disturbance or increasing stability of objects or sites.
A special note applies to sites or objects with religious connections: the U.S. Constitution permits inclusion of religious objects or places of worship in the program only if their primary significance is architectural, artistic, historical, or cultural rather than religious.
