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.

Back to Home page

Grants directory

Key word search

Programme:

Focus area:

Year awarded:

Status:

Organization:

Displaying 121 to 160 of 433 grants

VIEW BY

Organization
Project
Programme
Focus
Awarded
Status
Amount

Organization
UCLA Library

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.library.ucla.edu/
Organization
University of Cambridge

Programme
Environment

Focus
On-site Conservation

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$35,059,365

Start
2021

To restore a set of Europe’s degraded landscapes so that they are self-sustaining, enriched with biodiversity, resilient to climate change, and benefit both people and nature.

Grant duration: 10 years
https://www.endangeredlandscapes.org/
Organization
Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History

Programme
Culture

Focus
Culture: Other

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$70,000

Start
2020

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

Grant duration: 2 years
https://www.nli.org.il/he/books/NNL_ALEPH003725057/NLI
Organization
Wende Museum

Programme
Culture

Focus
Culture: Other

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.wendemuseum.org
Organization
Palestinian Museum

Programme
Culture

Focus
Archives and Manuscripts

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$1,900,000

Start
2021

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://palarchive.org
Organization
Heidelberg University

Programme
Culture

Focus
Heritage Sites

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$3,006,208

Start
2020

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

Grant duration: 6 years
http://www.asia-europe.uni-heidelberg.de/en/hcts/hcts-projects/nhdp.html
Organization
British Museum

Programme
Culture

Focus
Intangible Culture

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$11,075,680

Start
2021

To continue to support a grants programme to document endangered cultural practices, focusing on material culture, namely how things are made and how they are used. The digitized materials are available for free online.

Grant duration: 8 years
https://www.emkp.org/
Organization
Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology

Programme
Culture

Focus
Heritage Sites

Status
Live

Awarded
2020

Amount
$2,423,966

Start
2020

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

Grant duration: 5 years
https://www.shh.mpg.de/1958785/mapss-arcadia
Organization
New York Public Library

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$200,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.nypl.org/
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Open Access: Other

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$250,000

Start
2020

To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://wikimediafoundation.org/
Organization
Harvard University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://library.harvard.edu/
Organization
University of California, Berkeley

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
Organization
Yale University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://library.yale.edu/
Organization
University of Cambridge

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$99,750

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/
Organization
University of Cambridge

Programme
Environment

Focus
Leadership

Status
Complete

Awarded
2020

Amount
$177,672

Start
2020

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

Grant duration: 1 years
https://www.conservationevidence.com/
Organization
UCLA Library

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

The Library plans to put this generous contribution to good use by funding the publication of open access monographs via TOME, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in organizations such as Libraria.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://library.ucla.edu/
Organization
University of Oxford (School of Archaeology)

Programme
Culture

Focus
Heritage Sites

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$4,176,159

Start
2020

To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.

Grant duration: 5 years
http://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/
Organization
Wende Museum

Programme
Culture

Focus
Archives and Manuscripts

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$450,000

Start
2020

Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.

Grant duration: 3 years
https://wendemuseum.org/
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 of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Programme
Culture

Focus
Heritage Sites

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$2,304,000

Start
2020

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India 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
Internet Archive

Programme
Open Access

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$2,000,000

Start
2019

To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.

Grant duration: 1 years
http://archive.org/
Organization
Johns Hopkins University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Open Access: Other

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$235,000

Start
2019

To digitize and make permanently available online two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library's signature holdings.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://library.jhu.edu/
Organization
New York Public Library

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$200,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://nypl.org
Organization
Yale University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
http://web.library.yale.edu/
Organization
University of Cambridge

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$90,854

Start
2019

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
https://lib.cam.ac.uk/
Organization
Wikimedia Foundation Inc

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$250,000

Start
2019

Unrestricted funding to help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.

Grant duration: 1 years
http://wikimediafoundation.org
Organization
Harvard University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$100,000

Start
2020

Advancing open access

Grant duration: 1 years
http://library.harvard.edu/
Organization
Wende Museum

Programme
Culture

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$100,000

Start
2019

Towards the costs of running the museum

Grant duration: 1 years
https://wendemuseum.org/
Organization
National Library of Israel

Programme
Culture

Focus
Archives and Manuscripts

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$780,485

Start
2019

To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.

Grant duration: 1 years
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/nli/english/pages/default.aspx
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 years
http://illuminatedriver.london/
Organization
Coventry University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Books

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$1,048,000

Start
2019

To provide match funding for the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project, which will address the key technological, structural and organizational hurdles - around funing, production, dissemination, discovery, reuse and archiving - which are standing in the way of the wider adoption an impact of open access books.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://coventry.ac.uk
Organization
MIT Press

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Books

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$850,000

Start
2019

Developing a roadmap for converting university press monograph publishing to open access (OA). The two-year grant will support a broad-based monograph publishing cost analysis, the development and open dissemination of a durable financial framework and business plan for OA monographs, and a transition fund to subvent OA monographs at the MIT Press whilst they implement the resulting framework.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://mitpress.mit.edu/
Organization
University of California, Berkeley

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$100,000

Start
2019

Berkeley will continue to build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. These novel workflows will support decision-making related to digitizing and providing access to unique collections in cultural heritage institutions. They will also bolster innovative work educating scholars about navigating copyright, contracts, privacy, and ethics in text & data mining research. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.

Grant duration: 1 years
https://lib.berkeley.edu/
Organization
University of Virginia Library

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Discoverability

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$1,000,000

Start
2019

This grant will be used to significantly improve and drive the growth and heightened value of green open access through institutional repositories. It will do so by introducing new features to the Hyku Institutional Repository platform that directly address issues currently slowing its wider use.

Grant duration: 2 years
https://library.virginia.edu/
Organization
Stanford University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Intellectual Property Rights

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$165,000

Start
2019

This grant will be used to address the current stalemate over adoption of open access publishing models for research and scholarship by developing a viable program of copyright legislative reform on an international scale through consultation with leading intellectual property experts in the US, Canada, UK, and EU. The starting point for this reform is a proposal to identify research and scholarship as a distinct category of intellectual property for which publishers will have a right to be fairly compensated for publication costs by research libraries and research funders on making the work immediately available to the public

Grant duration: 2 years
http://ed.stanford.edu/faculty/willinsk
Organization
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Intellectual Property Rights

Status
Live

Awarded
2019

Amount
$1,500,000

Start
2019

Lumen is the definitive online source for worldwide requests to remove content from the Internet. Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting the analysis of the web’s takedown ecology, in terms of who sends requests, why, and to what ends. Lumen also seeks to facilitate research about different kinds of complaints and requests for removal — legitimate and questionable — that are sent to Internet publishers, platforms, and service providers. Ultimately, the project aims to both educate the public about the dynamics of this aspect of online participatory culture and provide a robust data source for researchers, journalists and policy makers focused on related issues.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://lumendatabase.org/
Organization
Curtin University

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Library-led

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$365,580

Start
2019

To develop and strengthen a coalition of universities that have a shared agenda to become Open Knowledge Institutions.

Grant duration: 2 years
https://openknowledge.community/
Organization
Turquoise Mountain Trust

Programme
Culture

Focus
Intangible Culture

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$30,284

Start
2019

To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust's work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan

Grant duration: 1 years
http://turquoisemountain.org/
Organization
Educopia Institute

Programme
Open Access

Focus
Discoverability

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$2,200,000

Start
2019

To expand nonprofit publishing and rival the current commercial infrastructure. This grant will help to develop new, cost-effective and community governed publishing tools and servies for authors, editors and readers.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://educopia.org
Organization
Harvard University (Department of History)

Programme
Culture

Focus
Culture: Other

Status
Complete

Awarded
2019

Amount
$570,000

Start
2019

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.

Grant duration: 3 years
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
View all

Search

OUR GRANTS

Grants directory

Displaying 121 to 160 of 433 grants