U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya: Ambassadors Fund For Cultural Preservation (AFCP) 2025
- Posted
- December 20, 2024
- Closed
- March 31, 2025
- Award ceiling
- $500,000
- Award floor
- $25,000
- Expected awards
- 1
- Cost sharing
- No
- Instrument
- Cooperative Agreement, Grant
- Assistance listing
- 19.025
- Archives
- April 30, 2025
Program funding history
Awards made under Assistance Listing 19.025 across FY2024–FY2026, from public federal spending records.
- FY2024 obligated
- $4.9M
- FY2025 obligated
- $1.5M
- FY2026 (to date) obligated
- $4.3M
- Awards in window
- 123
Top recipients: The American Center of Research, Incorporated, The William Foxwell Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem, Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, World Monuments Fund, Inc., Resilience Labs
Source: USAspending.gov · refreshed September 2026 · Program page: awards, recipients and the opportunities under this listing →
Synopsis
Executive summary
The U.S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya is now accepting applications for the U.S. Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) Grants Program!
AFCP supports the preservation of historic buildings, archaeological sites, manuscripts, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression such as indigenous languages and crafts in more than 120 countries around the world. Grants range from U.S. $25,000 to $500,000.
Projects may range in length from one to five years.
The application process involves two rounds:
Round 1: The first round includes the submission of project ideas in the form of concept notes, due to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on January 15, 2025. Concept notes should be submitted electronically to [email protected] and should not exceed three pages. No hard copies will be accepted. Failure to include any of the requirements or follow the character limits will result in the application being deemed ineligible.
Round 2: Selected applicants will be invited to submit full project applications for Round Two by March 31, 2025.
For any questions regarding the submission process, please email [email protected].
Priority regions: All the counties in Kenya
Participants and audiences: Local communities, government agencies, educational institutions, tourists, and others interested in cultural heritage and preservation.
Funding Areas
- · Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
- · Conservation: Treating or otherwise addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
- · Consolidation: Reconnecting elements of an object or site.
- · Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
- · Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
- · 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 for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
- · Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance or increasing the stability of an object or site.
Who can apply
- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)
Only these types or organizations may apply:• Foreign Institutions of Higher Education• Foreign-Based Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs)• Foreign Public Entities (where permitted)• Public International Organizations and Governmental Institutions• U.S. Institutions of Higher Education• U.S. Non-Profit Organizations (IRS section 501(c)(3)
The official record
Grants.gov published the official terms and dates of this opportunity; this page keeps them as they were listed.
New to federal funding? How to read an announcement · Who can apply · How grants work
Tell me when this program posts again
This round has closed. One email the morning after this program is posted again under a new number (we watch for about two years), and one more about a week before that round closes (the next morning, if it is already closer than that). That is all this sends — it is not a newsletter signup.
Get grants like this every Tuesday — free
One email a week: the biggest new federal grants and what’s closing soon — the same list for everyone. Unsubscribe any time.
Similar grants
- Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Large Grants Program
- U.S. Embassy Praia Ambassador’s Special Self-Help (SSH) Program
- Embassy Belgrade PAS - University Partnership
- U.S. Embassy Phnom Penh – PAS Annual Program Statement
- U.S. Embassy Djibouti PDS Annual Program Statement
- U.S. Embassy The Hague PD Annual Program Statement
Same-day alerts, matched to you
The free digest is weekly — the same list for everyone. Members get every open federal grant scored to their organization — and an alert the day a real match posts: we read every new posting the day it opens. Free for 30 days, then $29/mo. Card required, cancel any time before day 31.
Not ready for a subscription? A one-time Fit Report — $29 — scores every open federal grant to your organization once, by email within one business day.
See pricing