Application: Nancy Wilkie Emergency Fund for Heritage Preservation

Application for the Nancy Wilkie Emergency Fund for Heritage Preservation, designed to provide rapid, flexible funding in response to urgent threats facing archaeological sites around the world.

Name(Required)

First Last

Organization(Required)

Country(Required)

Country

Email(Required)

Name of the heritage site under threat(Required)

Significance of the heritage for the affected community(Required)

Crisis threatening the heritage site(Required)

Known damage(s) to the heritage site(Required)

Proposed activities for safeguarding the heritage site(Required)

Images

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Accepted file types: jpg, pdf, gif, png, jpeg, Max. file size: 64 MB, Max. files: 10.

A maximum of 10 images, including maps, drawings and photos can be included.

Budget

The Nancy Wilkie Emergency Fund normally offers grants of approximately $5,000; the committee has some discretion to make greater or smaller awards. Payments can be made to NGOs, institutions, or when this is not possible, individuals. Applicants should confirm that the designated recipient of funding does not appear on the United States Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons List (SDN List). See the grant page for a link to the SDN List.

Budget(Required)

Please provide a complete project budget, including an indication of what AIA funds will be intended to support. As a reminder, the AIA does not allow for Site Preservation Grant funds to be allocated to indirect or overhead costs. The grant funds that are awarded by the AIA are intended and should be used for direct costs associated with the designated project. The AIA does not fund: archaeological surveys; archaeological excavation (or the supplies to accomplish this); field schools; salaries; excessive administrative expenses or travel costs; the development of management plans.

Budget spreadsheet (optional)

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Accepted file types: xls, xlsx, Max. file size: 64 MB.

You may upload an Excel file, if you did not paste the information above or in addition to it.

Permissions

Information Publication(Required)

If awarded a grant, do you agree to share information about your project with the AIA in order to create publishable materials promoting your preservation and outreach efforts?

Image Release(Required)

Images submitted must be clear of copyright restriction. All reproduction rights, releases and/or permissions are the responsibility of the applicant. Images will only be used to promote the site and the Archaeological Institute of America. Images submitted become property of the Archaeological Institute of America and will not be returned. Credit will read: “AIA/[photographer and/or institution/organization].”If no photographer or institution/organization is provided in image documentation, credit will read: “AIA.”

I, the undersigned, understand the above and give the Archaeological Institute of America permission to reproduce submitted images in its publications, whether print or electronic, on its website or its social media accounts, and make images available to the press and educators.

Applicant Signature (type name)(Required)

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Application: Nancy Wilkie Emergency Fund for Heritage Preservation