Founded by lisbet rausing and peter baldwin, arcadia supports charities and scholarly institutions to preserve cultural heritage, protect the environment, and promote open access. Since 2002, we have awarded more than $500 million in grants to projects around the world.
Library leaders are working together today @ the Open Libraries Forum 2018 to make more books available online for free via controlled digital lending. If you're there, say hi to @rmounce! Or read about our @mitpress @internetarchive @openlibrary project bit.ly/2CnSV78
Only 15% of peer-reviewed articles are published in fully #openaccess journals. Our very own @rmounce and friends at #CP2OA18 are discussing pathways to sustainable OA publishing @ucberkeleylib @UCB_ScholComm Couldn't go? Follow discussions here cp2oa18.com
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme @ELARarchive, which we set up in 2002 at @SOAS has already documented more than 400 critically endangered languages around the world. The 2019 grant cycle is NOW OPEN! eldp.net/en/our+grants/… vimeo.com/272540899?ref=…
Documenting Global Voices, our new international re-granting programme with @UCLA_Library, is SEEKING A DIRECTOR. Application deadline TODAY! Find our more (req no. 28633) bit.ly/2Eh7PyQ Image: poster from the Carteles de cine collection, 1973 idep.library.ucla.edu/cuba
A FANTASTIC OPPORTUNITY for two outstanding individuals to join the Arcadia team as we expand our international portfolio of endangered culture and nature grants @GrantFunders Find out more: bit.ly/2pPVR5b
Our new initiative at @UCLA_Library will safeguard modern archival heritage around the globe, and make it accessible to all bit.ly/2QGN5BP Image: poster from the Medu Art Ensemble Collection, Freedom Park Pan African Archives (1982) idep.library.ucla.edu
The UK's largest habitat restoration partnership @CairngormsCo will cover a contiguous area of 60k ha in the Scottish Highlands. Excited to support this important project as part of @EndangeredLands @fcscotland @nature_scot @cairngormsnews @Natures_Voice theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/o…
Happy to be featured in this year's @ACFoundations Foundation Giving Trends report, placing 7th in the top 20 foundations by grant-making, and 5th in the top 10 family foundations by giving. Find our grants data @360Giving acf.org.uk/downloads/publ…
Great things happen when our grantees join forces! @internetarchive and @Wikipedia are working to make the Web more reliable, fixing more than 9 million broken links on Wikipedia @waybackmachine Read more: blog.archive.org/2018/10/01/mor…
ANNOUNCED: our grant to @iucn will support a new global urban alliance promoting greener, healthier and more livable, cities. @ScotWildlife. Read more: iucn.org/news/secretari… Photo: our office terrace garden, London 🦋
Listen to @MarionWallace18 talking about 'Beyond Timbuktu - Preserving the Manuscripts of Djenné', a new FREE exhibition @britishlibrary. Happy to support the documentation of these manuscripts through the Endangered Archives Programme! @bl_eap #openaccess bbc.co.uk/radio/play/w17…
Our new grant to @columbialib will support The Freedom of Information Archive at History Lab, the largest international database of declassified documents - from the Kissinger phone conversation transcripts to UK Cabinet papers #openaccess blogs.cul.columbia.edu/spotlights/201…
