OUR GRANTS

We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants.

Arcadia Fund has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.

You can search below for details of all our grants. Our grants data is also available in xlsx format here.




Displaying 361 to 400 of 450 grants

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

    Kent Wildlife Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2010

    To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/what-we-do/living-landscapes
  • Organization

    Sussex Wildlife Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2010

    To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.sussexwildlifetrust.org.uk
  • Organization

    Oceana Inc

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2010

    To enforce existing laws and regulations, to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://oceana.org/
  • Organization

    Israel Antiquities Authority

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2011

    To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls including bibliography, transcriptions of the text, translations and commentaries from experts and make them available for free online.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    http://www.antiquities.org.il/modules_eng.aspx?menu=10
  • Organization

    Conservation Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2010

    To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://conservacionpatagonica.org/home.htm
  • Organization

    Marine Conservation Institute

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2010

    To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://marine-conservation.org/
  • Organization

    Marine Conservation Institute

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $450,000

    Start

    2010

    To support organisational development.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://marine-conservation.org/
  • Organization

    Oceana Inc

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $2,550,000

    Start

    2010

    To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    http://oceana.org/
  • Organization

    Einstein Papers Project

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $45,000

    Start

    2010

    To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://www.einstein.caltech.edu/
  • Organization

    Early Manuscripts Electronic Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2010

    Amount

    $12,000

    Start

    2010

    To support preparation for the digitization of palimpsest manuscripts in the Library of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://sinaipalimpsests.org/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $540,667

    Start

    2009

    To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://www.conservationevidence.com/
  • Organization

    Marine Conservation Institute

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2009

    To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://marine-conservation.org/
  • Organization

    British Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $793,371

    Start

    2009

    To develop an online, open access, oral history archive for the study of 20th-century science in Britain. In 2015, the project's 'Voices of Science' web resource won the Royal Historical Society's Public History Prize for Web and Digital (www.bl.uk/voicesofscience).

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.bl.uk/projects/national-life-stories-oral-history-of-british-science#
  • Organization

    Institute for Philanthropy

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $1,777,138

    Start

    2009

    To increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through a programme of education and awareness-raising.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.instituteforphilanthropy.org.uk/
  • Organization

    Trust for African Rock Art

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $495,870

    Start

    2009

    To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://africanrockart.org/
  • Organization

    History and Policy

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $152,000

    Start

    2009

    To connect historians with policy-makers. History and Policy is a collaboration between King's College London and the University of Cambridge.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://www.historyandpolicy.org/
  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2009

    To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA's library and make them available for free online; to digitize ephemera through the open-access Collecting Los Angeles project.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.library.ucla.edu/
  • Organization

    Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $1,348,478

    Start

    2009

    To expand the partnership's work in biodiversity rich low- and middle-income countries.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.kew.org/science-conservation/millennium-seed-bank
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $1,319,458

    Start

    2009

    To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/our-work/collaborative-fund/
  • Organization

    Wende Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2009

    To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://www.wendemuseum.org/
  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $75,000

    Start

    2009

    To support visiting professor Jürgen Kocka.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.ucla.edu/
  • Organization

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2009

    To catalogue and digitize documents on Harvard's history, and to run the Library Lab programme to create better digital services for students and faculty.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    https://osc.hul.harvard.edu/liblab/
  • Organization

    BirdLife International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $1,500,000

    Start

    2009

    To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.birdlife.org
  • Organization

    Yale University

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2009

    To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and to make them available for free online.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://web.library.yale.edu/
  • Organization

    Association of Commonwealth Universities

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $105,797

    Start

    2009

    To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://acu.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Early Manuscripts Electronic Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2009

    Amount

    $85,000

    Start

    2009

    To survey, digitize and develop an innovative light source to backlight palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://sinaipalimpsests.org/
  • Organization

    Institute for Strategic Dialogue

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $2,170,173

    Start

    2008

    To support the institute's long-term cultural, educational and policy programmes, and to build capacity.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.isdglobal.org/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $1,644,913

    Start

    2008

    To develop and consolidate the initiative.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://www.conservation.cam.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    British Science Association

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $91,065

    Start

    2008

    To help the association reposition itself as a public body dedicated to promoting science for all.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://britishscienceassociation.org/
  • Organization

    Conservation Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $1,300,000

    Start

    2008

    To build a visitors' centre.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://www.conservacionpatagonica.org/home.htm
  • Organization

    Wende Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $275,000

    Start

    2008

    To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.wendemuseum.org/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $191,750

    Start

    2008

    To give free access to educational resources.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Home
  • Organization

    Conservation Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $379,000

    Start

    2008

    To build a rangers' station.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://www.theconservationlandtrust.org/eng/pumalin.htm
  • Organization

    Conservation Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $321,000

    Start

    2008

    To support the establishment of a new reserve in Corrientes province.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://www.theconservationlandtrust.org/eng/ibera.htm
  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2008

    To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.library.ucla.edu/location/library-special-collections/location/center-primary-research-training-cfprt
  • Organization

    Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $150,000

    Start

    2008

    To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH003725057/NLI
  • Organization

    European Climate Foundation

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2008

    To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://europeanclimate.org/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $981,300

    Start

    2008

    To set up the Arcadia Fellowship Programme. Fellows' projects look at how technology can improve access to information.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Imperial College

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $1,970,100

    Start

    2008

    To endow PhD scholarships in fields other than medicine and business.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.imperial.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Trust for African Rock Art

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2008

    Amount

    $491,425

    Start

    2008

    To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://africanrockart.org/
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