Project Grant SCB60019GR0075

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, will fund the conservation of the Lumbini Museum collection in Lumbini, Nepal. The $244,966 award, with a performance period from September 30, 2024 to November 30, 2026, will enable The Buddha Foundation, a non-profit organization in Nepal, to undertake preservation activities for this culturally...

This federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs, under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, provides $200,000 to secure and preserve important archaeological and ethnographic artifact collections from the Jebel Barkal and Kerma regions of Sudan. The award aims to protect these culturally significant artifacts from looting and destruction, ensuring they are safeguarded for posterity. The project will be...

The Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs, within the U.S. Department of State, awarded a $211,372 Project Grant under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, a for-profit organization, to support the conservation of ancient stone sculptures at the pre-Columbian site of Tiwanaku in Bolivia. The 2-year grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will fund activities such as conservation, documentation, and stabilization of the cultural...

The American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR) will extend its popular "Museum in a Suitcase" model through pop-up events and non-governmental organization community engagement in Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, and Algeria. Funded through a $200,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, ASOR aims to increase regional cooperation and further memoranda of understanding for cultural property protection. The award falls under the Cultural...

The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $174,705.76 Project Grant to the Regents of the University of California, Berkeley under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program (CFDA 19.025). The grant will support efforts by the Institut des Hautes Etudes et Recherches Islamiques Ahmed Baba de Tombouctou (IHERI-ABT) to verify bibliographic metadata for approximately 43,000 manuscripts held in its collections in Tombouctou and Bamako, Mali. Specifically, IHERI-ABT...

This Project Grant award of $170,957.53 from the Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service Region 9 Headquarters will fund conservation activities from October 1, 2022 to September 30, 2024 in Cambodia through the Marine Turtle Conservation Fund (CFDA 15.645) federal grant program. Key products and services delivered through the funding include recruiting local community members for in situ nest surveillance of one of the few remaining wild populations threatened by illegal fishing,...

The Department of State Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs awarded $250,637 to the Aga Khan Foundation under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) Project Grant. The grant will support the Aga Khan Foundation's project "CONSERVATION OF 16TH CENTURY ETHNOGRAPHIC OBJECTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE MUGHAL EMPEROR HUMAYUN IN NEW DELHI" from September 30, 2021 through March 31, 2023. As part of the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program, which...

The U.S. Department of State awarded a $125,000 Project Grant under the Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, a for-profit organization, for the preservation of ancient San rock art in the Matobo region of Zimbabwe. The 5-year grant, awarded on September 30, 2023, will support conservation, documentation, inventory, preventive care, restoration, and stabilization activities to preserve this important cultural heritage site and...

This $234,275 Project Grant from the Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs' Cultural Antiquities Task Force (CATF) program supports the creation of a digital archive of significant Moroccan cultural heritage at risk of trafficking. Awarded on September 20, 2021 to the Association Badira in Morocco, the grant enables the sub-awardee to fulfill a key objective under the Cultural Property Memorandum of Understanding Action Plan to build an online collection of endangered...

The federal Project Grant award of $258,966.39 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs (CFDA 19.025 - U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation) supports a three-phase cultural preservation process for 50 ethnolinguistic cultures in the Nigeria Middle Belt region. The project will produce extensive audiovisual documentation of the intangible cultural heritage of 10 focus minority cultures. The grant was awarded to Morehouse College Inc., a private, historically...