OUR GRANTS

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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 241 to 280 of 450 grants

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

    University of California, Berkeley

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2017

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://lib.berkeley.edu/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $100,053

    Start

    2017

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://lib.cam.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Yale University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2017

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $25,960,684

    Start

    2017

    To consolidate and expand the success of both the Halcyon Land & Sea Fund and the Halcyon Marine Programme to date, increasing their focus on long-term sustainability, and addressing the recommendations from Arcadia’s external evaluation of both programmes.

    Grant duration: 6 years

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

    Environmental Justice Foundation

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $999,750

    Start

    2017

    To support the Environmental Justice Foundation's Oceans Campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity, with a focus on West Africa and South-East Asia.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/oceans
  • Organization

    Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI)

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $496,000

    Start

    2017

    To enable the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative to provide expert input into the negotiations of the incipient UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (UN BBNJ) and International Seabed Authority (ISA) mining regulations, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and enforceable.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://dosi-project.org/
  • Organization

    Internet Archive

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $50,000

    Start

    2017

    Digitizing an initial group of 1,500 MIT Press titles at Internet Archive’s Boston Public Library facility to make them more widely available.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://archive.org/
  • Organization

    Conservation Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $3,000,000

    Start

    2017

    To purchase a piece of land beside Ibera National Park

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://theconservationlandtrust.org/eng/our_mission.htm
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $31,436,821

    Start

    2018

    To develop and support large-scale projects seeking to create habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resilient to environmental change, and share novel and replicable techniques that can achieve this, via an outsourced grants programme.

    Grant duration: 7 years

    http://endangeredlandscapes.org/
  • Organization

    American Council of Learned Societies

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $2,000,000

    Start

    2017

    To extend the reach of the Council's fellowship programme

    Grant duration: 4 years

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

    Bard College Berlin

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $2,241,088

    Start

    2017

    Towards a new building for student accommodations

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://berlin.bard.edu/
  • Organization

    Illuminated River Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $6,162,728

    Start

    2017

    To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://illuminatedriver.london/
  • 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

    Palestinian Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $1,900,000

    Start

    2016

    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

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2017

    Amount

    $250,000

    Start

    2017

    To give free access to educational resources.

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2016

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2016

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://nypl.org/
  • Organization

    UCLA Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2016

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://library.ucla.edu/
  • Organization

    University of California, Berkeley

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2016

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://lib.berkeley.edu/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $100,267

    Start

    2016

    This support the Office of Scholarly Communications in furthering open access to research.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://lib.cam.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Yale University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2016

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Endowment

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $10,000,000

    Start

    2017

    To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Intiative Directorship

    Grant duration: 11 years

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

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $305,000

    Start

    2016

    To enable CCI to conduct the preparatory work to establish a re-granting programme dedicated to supporting projects to create habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resillent to environmental change, and to sharing novel replicable techniques that can achieve this.

    Grant duration: 2 years

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

    Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $4,000,000

    Start

    2016

    To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://hmml.org/
  • Organization

    University of Oxford (School of Archaeology)

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $2,774,064

    Start

    2016

    To continue support for the documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    Harvard University (Department of History)

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $495,000

    Start

    2016

    To continue extraction and interpretation of data from an ice core documenting European climate in the last 3,500 years.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
  • Organization

    International Council of Monuments and Sites

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $196,490

    Start

    2016

    To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to publish all materials online for free.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://cyark.org/collections/project-anqa
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $549,400

    Start

    2016

    To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science

    Grant duration: 6 years

    https://sccs-cam.org/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $1,500,000

    Start

    2016

    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

    Global Witness

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $668,449

    Start

    2016

    To mitigate the current rates of biodiversity and habitat loss associated with illegal and unsustainable industrial logging in the Peruvian Amazon, Congo Basin, and South-East Asia

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.globalwitness.org/en-gb/
  • Organization

    TRAFFIC

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $3,000,000

    Start

    2016

    Reducing trade threats to Africa's wild species and ecosystems through strengthened knowledge and action in Africa and beyond. This purpose of this project is to strengthen actions to conserve and protect wildlife populations, areas of high biodiversity, and communities in Africa threatened by illegal and unsustainable wildlife trade, with a particular focus on trade to Asia.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://traffic.org/what-we-do/projects-and-approaches/supporting-law-enforcement/retta/
  • Organization

    American Assembly

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $220,000

    Start

    2016

    To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works listed in university course syllabi.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://opensyllabusproject.org/
  • Organization

    Public.Resource.Org

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $300,000

    Start

    2016

    To continue support for Public.Resource.Org's work, making legal statutes and technical and safety standards mandated by law available online for free.

    Grant duration: 3 years

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

    Tompkins Conservation

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $3,370,000

    Start

    2016

    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: 2 years

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

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2016

    Amount

    $250,000

    Start

    2016

    To give free access to educational resources.

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2015

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    School of Oriental and African Studies

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Intangible Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $11,026,080

    Start

    2016

    To continue to support the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, an open access programme recording vanishing and previously undocumented languages

    Grant duration: 7 years

    http://eldp.net/
  • Organization

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2015

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://nypl.org/
  • Organization

    UCLA Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2015

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://library.ucla.edu/
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