OUR GRANTS

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Displaying 281 to 320 of 450 grants

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

    University of California, Berkeley

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

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $77,966

    Start

    2015

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials. Part of the funds went towards digitizing 1,400 PhD theses from microfilm, to make them more easily available online.

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

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

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $1,060,000

    Start

    2015

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

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://conservationevidence.com/
  • Organization

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $3,750,000

    Start

    2015

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

    Grant duration: 4 years

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

    Internews

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $450,000

    Start

    2015

    To support capacity building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    http://earthjournalism.net/projects/biodiversity-media-initiative
  • Organization

    Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $1,625,000

    Start

    2016

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

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.geog.cam.ac.uk/graduate/mphil/conservation/
  • Organization

    University College London

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $83,000

    Start

    2015

    To assess the feasibility of nondestructive digital imaging technology to read texts on papyri in mummy cartonnages. All data, findings and methodologies will be freely available online for further research.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://ucl.ac.uk/dh/projects/deepimaging
  • Organization

    Creative Commons

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $451,782

    Start

    2015

    To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://creativecommons.org/
  • Organization

    Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $511,200

    Start

    2016

    To digitize and make publicly accessible travellers' and naturalists' field manuscripts on South America, 1800 to 2000.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://siarchives.si.edu/about/field-book-project
  • Organization

    Yale University

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $25,000,000

    Start

    2017

    To refurbish the Hall of Graduate Studies and to support the programmatic agenda that will transform it into a central home for the humanities at Yale

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://yale.edu/
  • Organization

    British Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $336,303

    Start

    2014

    To provide on-the-job training in digital documentation for Egyptian heritage specialists, to digitize and publish online glass plate photographs of early archaeological displays.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
  • Organization

    University of Toronto

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Intangible Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2015

    Amount

    $250,000

    Start

    2015

    To document the disappearing craft of cutting rock churches in Ethiopia and to make the videos and other documentary material available online for free.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/ethiopic-churches/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2014

    To expand Wikipedia Zero, which gives free, mobile access to Wikipedia to people who cannot afford mobile data costs.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Wikipedia_Zero
  • Organization

    Tropical Biology Association

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $486,357

    Start

    2014

    To train African biodiversity conservation professionals.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://www.tropical-biology.org/
  • Organization

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2014

    To provide open access online publication of multispectral images produced by the Sinai Palimpsest Project, which documents the manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai

    Grant duration: 2 years

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

    National Library of Israel

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $300,000

    Start

    2014

    To establish the library as a model for open access.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/time_journey/Pages/default.aspx
  • Organization

    University of Oxford (School of Archaeology)

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $1,964,054

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 3 years

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

    Environmental Justice Foundation

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $450,000

    Start

    2014

    To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://ejfoundation.org/what-we-do/ocean
  • Organization

    The World Land Trust

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $1,800,000

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 3 years

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

    Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $222,600

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 3 years

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

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2014

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    University of California Los Angeles

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2014

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    University of California, Berkeley

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2014

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Intangible Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $1,207,964

    Start

    2014

    To document the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks and Oirats, and to create an open-access digital archive of this material.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.kalmykheritage.socanth.cam.ac.uk/en/index.php
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $81,059

    Start

    2014

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    Yale University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2014

    To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

    Grant duration: 1 year

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

    ClientEarth

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $1,459,073

    Start

    2014

    To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://www.clientearth.org/wildlife/
  • Organization

    Public.Resource.Org

    Programme

    Open Access

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2014

    To digitize and give open access to legal documents, technical standards and safety standards that should be in the public domain.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://public.resource.org/
  • 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

    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

    University of Exeter

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Intangible Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2014

    Amount

    $348,556

    Start

    2014

    To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records available for free online.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/
  • 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

    BirdLife International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $1,800,000

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 6 years

    http://www.birdlife.org
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $2,253,272

    Start

    2014

    To develop and consolidate the initiative.

    Grant duration: 6 years

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

    Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Archives and Manuscripts

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2013

    To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and to make it available for free online.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://collections.si.edu/search/index.htm
  • 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

    Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $2,000,000

    Start

    2014

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

    Grant duration: 6 years

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

    Tropical Biology Association

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $120,000

    Start

    2013

    To train young African biologists to develop careers in conservation.

    Grant duration: 1 year

    http://www.tropical-biology.org/
  • Organization

    Harvard University (Department of History)

    Programme

    Culture

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2013

    Amount

    $525,000

    Start

    2013

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

    Grant duration: 4 years

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