Grant Application

Grant Application
Call for Proposals
The Heritage Management Organization and the Mellon Foundation are launching a new call for concept notes for small grants ($5,000 to $50,000) for organizations groups and individuals working with heritage around the African continent.

All projects have to focus on the protection of or promotion of local heritage.

Detailed Description
There are three main criteria for these small grants:

1. Sustainability – The focus should be on projects that will have a long-lasting impact, going much beyond the duration of the project.

Potential examples:
- Protecting heritage sites from desertification by creating green belts, especially where such green areas can increase biodiversity, bring benefits to local agriculture, and encourage tourism.
- Preserving/stabilizing/restoring and adaptively reusing a historic building as a community archive and event space
- Research about public heritage landscape
- Installation of solar panels at heritage sites that will generate income or decrease expenditure, even after the calculation of the service and maintenance costs.
- Building tourism infrastructure, using environmentally friendly solutions and a good business plan underlying their construction, including a proposal for community use.
- Direct interventions that strengthen social institutions, like traditional methods of mediation help communities discuss and overcome problems.
2. Capacity development and network building – we encourage projects that will strengthen local skills and build closer links with peer organizations in the Heritage Management Organization’s network.

Potential examples:
- On-the-job training in preventive conservation measures, such as clearing or fencing sites.
- Exchange of experiences and expertise with other local NGOs in Africa, for example on shared issues such as desertification or erosion of sites.
- Co-operative training on museum exhibition design during the creation of an interpretation centre.
3. Concrete and community impact – We encourage projects with solid and measurable incomes regarding heritage protection and benefits to local people. Each project should provide clear indicators of the planned impact.

These indicators will depend on the type of work carried out, but may include:
- increased visitation to a heritage site or program
- financial benefits to the local community in terms of the increase in the number of jobs or local businesses created.
- amount of money earned from tourism; money saved by solar panel installation; the size of the area protected from desertification.

Application Form
Please type your name

PrefixFirst NameLast Name
Email
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Phone Number
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Title of the project
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Name of the Organization/Group
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The need that your project will address.
Please explain why your project is needed

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Please provide a short description of your project
Describe the activities, methods and outcomes, or in other words, please say what you will do, how will you do it and what will be the result

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Impact on cultural heritage preservation
Please state how your project will contribute - directly and indirectly - to the preservation of cultural heritage

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Impact on the community (local/regional)
Please say how your project will benefit the lives of people, for example: greater public access to local and national history and culture, improved spaces for social connection and cultural expression, new educational and training experiences, diversifying jobs and other economic opportunities, securing environmentally friendly, sustainable energy sources, contributing to reconciliation, gender balance, or improved accessibility for the elderly and those with disabilities, etc

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What are the potential economic or public benefits of your project?
Please describe how would you invest any income gained from this project back into the community or local heritage preservation

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Longer term sustainability and impact
Please explain how you will ensure the impact of your project beyond the grant’s duration

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Network with others and with the Heritage Management Organization
How will you cooperate with others and contribute to building up a network of professionals locally or regionally?

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How do you propose to measure, monitor and evaluate your impact
What are the key indicators of your outcomes and successes? For example: will you measure the number of visitors or participants, income generated, number of jobs created, number of people trained, the number of oral histories or artifacts collected, percentage of crime decreased - these indicators may be reviewed in the duration of the grant

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The amount requested in USD. This can be revised if you are invited to submit a detailed proposal.
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If applicable, in a few sentences, please provide any other information you believe relevant to this application.
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Detailed Description

Application Form

Title of the project

Name of the Organization/Group

The need that your project will address.

Please provide a short description of your project

Impact on cultural heritage preservation

Impact on the community (local/regional)

What are the potential economic or public benefits of your project?

Longer term sustainability and impact

Network with others and with the Heritage Management Organization

How do you propose to measure, monitor and evaluate your impact

The amount requested in USD. This can be revised if you are invited to submit a detailed proposal.

If applicable, in a few sentences, please provide any other information you believe relevant to this application.