Grants directory

To enable the programme to deliver a third cohort of landscape restoration projects, and to develop its focus on seascape restoration in Europe.

To restore endangered European rivers by supporting interventions that lead to the removal of dams and the restoration of river flow and biodiversity

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.

To establish the project, composed of: The Academic Programme to train linguists documenting endangered languages (from 2012 supported by SOAS); Endangered Languages Archive, holding audio and video documentation (from 2014 supported by SOAS); and Endangered Languages Documentation Programme which, in an annual competition, awards grants to document endangered languages.

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.

To support documentation of the most endangered languages around the world, and to archive and publish this material online in an open-access database.

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.

To partner with Bloomberg Philanthropies to create a new regranting fund to expand and improve marine protected areas and other effective area-based conservation measures. The fund aims to help protect 30% of the ocean by 2030 and reach target 3 of the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

To build a new cultural conservation and digitization centre at Yale University.

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

Match funding to create endowments for Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.

Halcyon Programmes and core support

To continue to support the Endangered Archives Programme, a regranting programme that funds projects to digitize neglected, vulnerable or inaccessible archives older than the mid-twentieth century. The digitized materials are available for free online

To establish a grants programme that funds projects to digitise neglected, vulnerable or inaccessible archives relating to pre-industrial societies. The digitized materials are available for free online.

To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes, and advance biodiversity conservation.

Towards supporting environmental investigative journalism focused on European affairs in and outside Europe.

To continue 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.

Towards an endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.

To continue to support the Endangered Archives Programme, a grants programme that funds projects to digitise neglected, vulnerable or inaccessible archives older than the mid-twentieth century. The digitized materials are available for free online.

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.

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

To protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in some of the most biodiverse areas of the oceans through policy changes at the national and regional levels

To establish the Endowed History Department Chair and History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.

Towards a matched endowment to support open access programmes at MIT Press including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services

To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Intiative Directorship

To support Harvard College Fellows Program

To improve acquisition policies and access to the library's collections.

To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas

To preserve the Institute’s academic autonomy.

To support the growth, development, and institutional usage of OpenAlex - an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors, and institutions.

Towards an endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.

Allocated to the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed from March 2019 to December 2020

To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.

To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

To support ClientEarth to use legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance. ClientEarth will support the implementation of global policies and commitments to ensure terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems are appropriately safeguarded, managed and restored.

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

To support Oceans 5, an international funders’ regranting collaborative dedicated to protecting the world’s ocean

To provide core support to re:wild

To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme