OUR GRANTS

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Displaying 1 to 40 of 433 grants

  • Organization
  • Project
  • Programme
  • Focus
  • Awarded
  • Status
  • Amount

  • Organization

    Oceans 5

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $25,000,000

    Start

    2023
    To partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies to create a new regranting fund to expand and improve marine protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures. The fund aims to help protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 and reach target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://oceans5.org

  • Organization

    Trinity Foundation

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2024
    Towards the digitization of fourteen significant Medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://www.tcd.ie/

  • Organization

    British Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $18,000,000

    Start

    2023
    To continue to support the Endangered Archives Programme, a regranting programme that funds projects to digitize neglected, vulnerable or inaccessible archives older than the mid-twentieth century. The digitized materials are available for free online

    Grant duration: 10 years

    https://eap.bl.uk/

  • Organization

    Blavatnik Archive Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2023
    Towards digitizing primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections, and making them freely accessible online.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://www.blavatnikarchive.org/

  • Organization

    Stichting European Review of Books

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $22,000

    Start

    2023
    Core support for the European Review of Books

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://europeanreviewofbooks.com/

  • Organization

    Bates Wells and Braithwaite London LLP

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $46,945

    Start

    2023
    Towards the final settlement of legal costs incurred by The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Limited in the campaign to secure public access to the Mountbatten Archive held by the University of Southampton

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://bateswells.co.uk/

  • Organization

    University of Florida Foundation, Inc.

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2023
    Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.uff.ufl.edu/foundation/

  • Organization

    UCLA Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $552,693

    Start

    2023
    Towards supporting post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://cmrs.ucla.edu/

  • Organization

    International University College of Turin

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $110,000

    Start

    2023
    Core support

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.campusleoneginzburg.org/iuctorino-about

  • Organization

    Center for Jewish History

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2023
    To establish an endowment fund to provide annual fellowships for scholars working at the Center for Jewish History and with the collections of the Center and its partners

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.cjh.org/

  • Organization

    Princeton University Press

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $300,000

    Start

    2023
    To continue the digitization and open access publication of Albert Einstein's papers

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.princeton.edu/

  • Organization

    Wildlife Conservation Society

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $8,000,000

    Start

    2023
    To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://www.wcs.org/

  • Organization

    Lancaster University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Books

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $3,429,600

    Start

    2023
    To help develop the infrastructures, business models, networks and resources to support open access books publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/

  • Organization

    Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland e.V.

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    $1,205,100

    Start

    2023
    To obtain and openly publish online German government documents and information that ought to be freely available online

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://fragdenstaat.de/

  • Organization

    Universitat Pompeu Fabra

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $2,270,636

    Start

    2023
    To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.upf.edu/en/

  • Organization

    The Regents of the University of California on behalf of its Berkeley campus

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://cla.berkeley.edu/

  • Organization

    The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Los Angeles campus, for the UCLA Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $13,000,000

    Start

    2023
    To continue a grants programme that funds projects to digitize and make accessible at-risk archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The digitized materials are available for free online.

    Grant duration: 8 years

    https://meap.library.ucla.edu/

  • Organization

    Frankfurt Zoological Society

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $297,500

    Start

    2022
    To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine's national parks.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/

  • Organization

    Foundation Conservation Carpathia

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $297,500

    Start

    2022
    To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine's national parks.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.carpathia.org/

  • Organization

    Johns Hopkins University

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $222,825

    Start

    2022
    To digitize and make publicly accessible items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.library.jhu.edu/

  • Organization

    Institute for Human Sciences

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $1,273,300

    Start

    2022
    To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://www.iwm.at/program/documenting-ukraine

  • Organization

    Of The Wild Productions Ltd

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $26,000

    Start

    2022
    Towards the development phase of a documentary film.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.ofthewild.me/

  • Organization

    Carbon Tanzania

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $71,280

    Start

    2022
    Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.carbontanzania.com/our-projects/yaeda-valley/

  • Organization

    re:wild

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $6,000,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide core support to re:wild

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.rewild.org/

  • Organization

    re:wild

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina's Ibera Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through their fiscal sponsor re:wild

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://rewildingargentina.org/

  • Organization

    Blue Ventures Conservation

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $2,500,000

    Start

    2022
    Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://blueventures.org/

  • Organization

    Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $4,641,000

    Start

    2022
    To support the operations of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), so that it can continue to provide evidence-based advice to inform international policy concerning the management and conservation of the deep ocean.

    Grant duration: 10 years

    https://www.dosi-project.org/

  • Organization

    Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $3,000,000

    Start

    2022
    To support Miriam Rothschild scholars to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.

    Grant duration: 10 years

    https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/our-work/mphil-in-conservation-leadership/

  • Organization

    Global Canopy

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $1,725,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide Global Canopy with core support to target the market forces destroying nature.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://globalcanopy.org/

  • Organization

    Rewilding Europe

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $4,999,995

    Start

    2022
    To continue advancing and scaling up rewilding across Europe through the development of innovative rewilding models, starting a new initiative to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://rewildingeurope.com/

  • Organization

    COMMUNIA International Association for the Public Domain

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $3,570,000

    Start

    2022
    To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content. The project will also aim to develop user rights (of both individual and institutional users) to access and share content with legal clarity for the beneficiaries of exceptions and limitations.

    Grant duration: 8 years

    https://www.communia-association.org/

  • Organization

    Creative Commons

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $4,000,000

    Start

    2022
    Towards enabling Creative Commons, EIFL, and SPARC to execute a global campaign that promotes the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research, making immediate open access publishing the default. The campaign aims to empower governments, institutions, and activists who currently lead critical climate and biodiversity work, to embed open practices and policies in their operations.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://openclimatecampaign.org/

  • Organization

    Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Discoverability

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $3,600,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide core support to Redalyc&AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).

    Grant duration: 10 years

    https://redalyc.org/arcadia/

  • Organization

    Open Syllabus

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Books

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $1,750,000

    Start

    2022
    To continue the development of the open syllabus project – to gather and analyse the world’s syllabi and make this information freely available to the academic community and the public.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://opensyllabus.org/

  • Organization

    MIT Press

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2022
    Towards supporting open access initiatives at MIT Press, elsewhere in MIT or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://mitpress.mit.edu/

  • Organization

    Confederation of Open Access Repositories

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Discoverability

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $4,000,000

    Start

    2022
    To help scholarly communities organise peer-review of preprints and working papers through a not-for-profit, university-governed ecosystem, bypassing commercial publishers.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://www.coar-repositories.org/notify/

  • Organization

    Plazi

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $1,785,000

    Start

    2022
    To continue to build a public access repository of species descriptions and images ‘liberated’ from in-copyright journal articles, and to automate this process of liberation in future by integrating it into publishers’ systems.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://plazi.org/

  • Organization

    National Centre for Biological Sciences

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $440,000

    Start

    2022
    To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.ncbs.res.in/

  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $2,014,000

    Start

    2022
    To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://sinaimanuscripts.library.ucla.edu/

  • Organization

    Columbia University Libraries

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $1,700,000

    Start

    2023
    To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://library.columbia.edu/
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