Grants awarded

To help digitize and make publicly available on the Internet 23,000 books in Arabic. NYU and partner institutions' are contributing published books in all fields – literature, business, science, and more – from their Arabic collections. The books range in date from very early materials to imprints as late as the 1990s. Many of the older books are rare or fragile, and nearly all are out of print.

To digitize all of the National Library of Sweden’s holdings of Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available on the internet as open data for anyone to read or use.

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

To record interviews with farmers, land owners, scientists and representatives from organizations about the experience of change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after World War II.

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

Advancing open access

To provide core costs for the European Council on Foreign Relations.

Trustee-led grant offered in December 2018

Towards IntoUniversity's core costs

To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.

To support opening Harvard's collections to the world via digitization and open access. Harvard Library has leased a high speed scanner to digitize its holdings in a way that vastly increases the rate of output.

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

Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project

Towards ECF's infrastructure and to tackle some of the most pressing political challenges in Europe

To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme funding research in Chinese or Comparative Literature

To support graduate students, to bring distinguished visiting scholars to UCLA to give lectures and teach courses, to underwrite conferences and workshops, and for other purposes that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the vitality of the field of medieval history at UCLA.

To propagate and plant rare and hard to grow montane scrub willow species

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

To support the operations and activities of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity

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.