Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
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 (last updated July 2024). Arcadia 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.
Wende endowment
Towards an endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.
$7,500,000
2019
10 years
Wende archival digitization
Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.
$450,000
2019
3 years
Core support
To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust's work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan
$30,285
2019
1 year
Towards the second phase of the Illuminated River
The Illuminated River Foundation aims to create the longest public artwork in the world, lighting up to 15 bridges on the River Thames.
$4,840,000
2019
1 year
"Maktoub" - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books
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.
$780,485
2019
1 year
Running costs
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Open Access at UCLA
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.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$90,854
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Open Access
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.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2019
1 year
Core costs
Unrestricted funding to help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Digitizing the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library collection
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.
$235,000
2019
1 year
Turning Wikipedia references blue
To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.
$2,000,000
2019
1 year
Nepal cultural heritage documentation project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database
$945,748
2018
2 years
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to document traditional skills and practices used in making or using things. It supports projects that document practices and skills that are being lost as mass-produced objects replace handmade items. The digitized records are available for free online.
Learn more$2,295,684
2018
4 years
A framework to make more books freely available online
To develop technology, policies, and partnerships that will increase the amount of book content that researchers can access digitally.
$5,000,000
2018
3 years
Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai
To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
$980,051
2018
3 years
Documentation of endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, China
University College London (Institute of Archaeology)
http://shanxi-project.org/shanxi-digital-documentation-project/
To survey and document endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, ranging in date from early medieval to 19th century, and to publish the results online in an open-access bilingual database.
$1,047,438
2018
6 years