Grants directory

To develop and consolidate the initiative.

Towards a new building for student accommodations

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.

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.

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

To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, using multispectral photography.

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

Towards the Wikimedia endowment

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

To create high quality EPUB files of scanned university press books, to enhance the reader experience

To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs

To enable FFI to establish the Conservation Resilience Fund, to help local conservation organisations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

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

To establish a WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund to help build long-term capacity of select local partner groups. WCS will direct grants and capacity-building support to partners that have been impacted by COVID-19 and who seek to build more sustainable, resilient organizations.

To extend the reach of the Council's fellowship programme

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them available for free online.

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

To create a database of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.

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.

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.

To support the Open Access Button in three key areas: to meet proven demand for tools that give libraries leverage in big deals; to compete with for-profit access tools; and to lower the cost of making papers open access.

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

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

To complete the digitization of the National Library of Sweden’s (NLS) holdings of all Swedish historical newspapers up to 1906.

To secure new areas of high biodiversity value under conservation management, in collaboration with local partners

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

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.

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

To support Rewilding Europe to increase its impact in making Europe a wilder place via three targeted activities: encouraging wildlife comeback; improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding; and developing new rewilding models to mobilise financial sector support to rewilding.

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.

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

To address threats and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.

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

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

To develop and consolidate the initiative.

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.

To set up and run the American Council of Learned Society open access book prizes. The prizes will go to authors of open access monographs and their publishers to support forthcoming books that would not otherwise be published open access

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.

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