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.
Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests
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
$668,449
2016
3 years
Reducing Trade Threats to Africa’s Wild Species and Ecosystems (ReTTa)
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.
$3,000,000
2016
4 years
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
This support the Office of Scholarly Communications in furthering open access to research.
$100,267
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Field book project - South America
To digitize and make publicly accessible travellers' and naturalists' field manuscripts on South America, 1800 to 2000.
$511,200
2015
3 years
Legal tools for open access to academic publications
To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications
$451,782
2015
3 years
Documentation of archaeological archives in Egypt
British Museum
http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
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.
$336,304
2015
2 years
Documentation of rock-cut churches in Ethiopia
To document the disappearing craft of cutting rock churches in Ethiopia and to make the videos and other documentary material available online for free.
$250,000
2015
3 years
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.
$11,026,080
2015
7 years
Developing non-destructive methods to read texts in mummy cartonnages
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.
$83,000
2015
2 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made
$3,750,000
2015
4 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.
$1,625,000
2015
5 years
Earth Journalism Network
To support capacity building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.
$450,000
2015
4 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$1,060,000
2015
5 years
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access to PhD theses
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.
$77,967
2015
1 year