OUR GRANTS

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Displaying 41 to 80 of 450 grants

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

    2018

    Amount

    $5,500,000

    Start

    2018

    To establish 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: 6 years

    https://library.ucla.edu/partnerships/modern-endangered-archives-program
  • Organization

    Yale School of the Environment

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2011

    Amount

    $5,500,000

    Start

    2011

    To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

    Grant duration: 7 years

    http://environment.yale.edu/elti/
  • Organization

    Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,492,813

    Start

    2021

    To continue the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s work digitizing endangered manuscripts in Africa and Asia, and to make them available online in an open-access repository.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://hmml.org/
  • Organization

    Oceana Inc

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2007

    Amount

    $5,250,000

    Start

    2007

    To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://oceana.org/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation (Tides)

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Endowment

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2016

    To support the operations and activities of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://wikimediaendowment.org/
  • Organization

    Oceana Inc

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2013

    To reduce habitat destruction by changing fishing policies in the Americas, tropical Asia and Europe.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://oceana.org/
  • 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

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2003

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2003

    To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://www.fauna-flora.org/initiatives/halcyon-land-sea/
  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2005

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2005

    To establish: the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History; the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund; and, the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the Cllege of Letters and Science.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.history.ucla.edu/
  • 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

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2014

    To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2011

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2011

    To support new initiatives in the Harvard Library

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://library.harvard.edu/
  • Organization

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2006

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2008

    To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://www.fauna-flora.org/initiatives/halcyon-land-sea/
  • Organization

    Wildlife Conservation Society

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2022

    To provide Legacy Landscapes Fund with match funding for Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Leuser Ecosystem bid in Sumatra, Indonesia.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://legacylandscapes.org/
  • Organization

    Public.Resource.Org

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2020

    To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://public.resource.org/
  • Organization

    University of California, Berkeley

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2014

    Core grant

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
  • Organization

    Mvule Trust

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2005

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2005

    To provide bursaries to young women in Uganda.

    Grant duration: 7 years

    https://www.facebook.com/mvule.trust/
  • Organization

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2022

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2022

    To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://www.nypl.org/
  • 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

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2013

    To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.fauna-flora.org/
  • Organization

    Creative Commons

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2021

    To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM institutions) make their collections data and images available under open Creative Commons licences or waivers.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://creativecommons.org/2021/06/10/were-launching-the-cc-open-glam-program/
  • Organization

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2011

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2011

    To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    http://www.fauna-flora.org/initiative/marine-conservation/
  • Organization

    UNEP-WCMC

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2021

    Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.unep-wcmc.org/en/protected-planet
  • Organization

    Wende Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.wendemuseum.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

    Human Rights Watch

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2006

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2006

    To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.

    Grant duration: 6 years

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

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Endowment

    Awarded

    2019

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2019

    To establish a fund for the History Department for the salaries of new faculty hires to three established endowed chairs - the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German HIstory, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval HIstory.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.history.ucla.edu/
  • Organization

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2004

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2004

    To digitise key collections and make them available for free online.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://library.harvard.edu/explore-collections
  • Organization

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Books

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2018

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2018

    To develop technology, policies, and partnerships that will increase the amount of book content that researchers can access digitally.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://nypl.org/
  • Organization

    Bard College

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Culture: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2021

    Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://www.bard.edu/
  • 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

    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

    Yale School of the Environment

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $4,978,000

    Start

    2017

    To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://environment.yale.edu/elti/
  • Organization

    Illuminated River Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2019

    Amount

    $4,840,000

    Start

    2019

    The Illuminated River Foundation aims to create the longest public artwork in the world, lighting up to 15 bridges on the River Thames.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://illuminatedriver.london/
  • Organization

    Yale School of the Environment

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2006

    Amount

    $4,832,527

    Start

    2006

    To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://environment.yale.edu/elti/
  • 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

    Our Research

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Discoverability

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $4,500,000

    Start

    2021

    To provide tools and data which better surface open access research and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions. If successful, this will help to end ‘big deal’ subscription packages and reduce information asymmetry in library-publisher negotiations.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://ourresearch.org/
  • Organization

    Stockholm School of Economics

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2002

    Amount

    $4,336,000

    Start

    2002

    To create the international programme.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://www.hhs.se/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2019

    Amount

    $4,249,600

    Start

    2020

    To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/institutes-and-facilities-overview/mcdonald-institute-archaeological-research
  • Organization

    University College London (Institute of Archaeology)

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2023

    Amount

    £4,194,000

    Start

    2023

    To complete an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://uclcaal.org/
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