Project Grant SLMAQM21GR3132
Award Date
10/1/21
Completion Date
12/31/22
Dollars Obligated
$200K
Funding Federal Agency
Bureau of African Affairs
Awarding Federal Agency
Ariba Acquisitions
Federal Grant Program
19.025
Assistance Type
Project Grant
Place of Performance
Sierra Leone
Similar Awards
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) provides $258,966.39 to Morehouse College Inc. to conduct a three-phase cultural preservation process of 50 ethnolinguistic cultures in Nigeria's Middle Belt region. The project will produce extensive audiovisual documentation of the intangible cultural heritage of 10 focus minority cultures. The award has an effective date of...
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 $109,000 federal Project Grant award from the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs will fund the conservation and preservation of the ancient Thuparama Image House at the Polonnaruwa World Heritage Site in Sri Lanka. The project, awarded under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, aims to preserve this historic architectural masterpiece as a cultural, historical, and sacred monument for future generations. The work will involve comprehensive...
The Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to Miyamoto Global Disaster Relief under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation program (CFDA 19.025). The two-year award, made on September 1, 2021 and concluding on August 31, 2023, will support the development of guidelines and capacity building for seismic retrofits of cultural heritage buildings in Lebanon. The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation aims to preserve...
The federal Project Grant award of $200,000.00 from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs supports the preservation of important archaeological and ethnographic artifacts from Jebel Barkal and Kerma in Sudan under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program. The award aims to secure these culturally significant collections from looting and destruction, thereby safeguarding them for posterity. The grant has an award date of October 1, 2024 and a...
The Department of State Bureau of African Affairs awarded a $114,326 project grant to Yale University under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation federal grant program. The grant will support collaborations between Yale University Gallery and the National Museum Lagos in Nigeria to promote active and preventive conservation of late 19th and early 20th century Yoruba wood objects. The grant period is from October 1, 2022 through December 31, 2023. The U.S. Ambassadors Fund for...
The U.S. Department of State, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, awarded a $447,821 Project Grant under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program to provide documentation and conservation of Spanish colonial fortifications in Samar Province, Philippines. The 3-year project, with a performance period from September 2024 to September 2027, will be conducted by Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, a for-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. The grant...
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 federal Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, provides $245,000 to address threats to the structural integrity of historic architecture and improve inclusive site access at the Ksar of Douiret in Tunisia. The grantee, the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), will perform stabilization and preservation work on the historic Ksar site, a UNESCO World...
This Cooperative Agreement award of $240,000 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, will support a project in Kenya. The project will include the restoration of collapsed ruins, fencing of the site perimeter, construction of a new boardwalk, staff housing, repair of visitor and staff washrooms, a rainwater reservoir, an entry gate, and an exhibition gallery. The award has an initial...