The World Monuments Fund, Inc. received a $199,995 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs on October 1, 2021 to complete the project by December 31, 2022. The project involves documentation, stabilization, and restoration planning for the Old Fourah Bay College building in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This award was made under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025), which aims to support the preservation of cultural heritage...
This $505,000 federal Project Grant award, provided by 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, will support the rebuild and restoration of five types of tangible cultural heritage structures in Morocco's High Atlas region that are intrinsically linked to the area's intangible cultural heritage and agricultural livelihoods. The project will be carried out by the non-profit organization The...
This $258,966.39 federal Project Grant awarded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs on October 1, 2024 under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program will support a three-phase cultural preservation process for 50 ethnolinguistic cultures in Nigeria's Middle Belt region. The project will produce extensive audiovisual documentation of the intangible cultural heritage of 10 minority focus cultures. Morehouse College Inc., a private...
This Project Grant award under the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (CFDA 19.025) program, funded by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs, seeks to secure important archaeological and ethnographic collections from the Jebel Barkal and Kerma regions of Sudan. The $200,000 award, granted on October 1, 2024, aims to save these cultural heritage assets from looting and destruction, preserving them for posterity. The primary awardee, Miscellaneous Foreign...
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...
This federal Project Grant award of $249,866 was provided by 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. The grant will be used to implement a project to preserve libraries and archives in Iraq, with a focus on building capacity for preventive conservation, climate change adaptation, and effective outreach. The project will be carried out by the non-profit organization The Heritage Management...
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...
This $198,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of African Affairs under the Africa Regional Democracy Fund (CFDA 19.225) aims to contribute to the promotion of democratic principles and practices, freedom of movement and expression, and support for the new constitution and electoral law in the regions of Timbuktu and Taoudeni, Mali. The award was made on October 2, 2023 to Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, a for-profit organization registered to conduct business...
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...
This $245,000 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) will address threats to the structural integrity of historic architecture and improve inclusive site access at the Ksar of Douiret in Tunisia. The grant recipient, the American Society of Overseas Research (ASOR), a non-profit organization specializing in cultural heritage preservation in the Near East and...