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.
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
To continue support for the documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.
$2,774,064
2016
5 years
3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq
To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to publish all materials online for free.
$196,490
2016
1 year
Core funding for organization
To continue support for Public.Resource.Org's work, making legal statutes and technical and safety standards mandated by law available online for free.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works listed in university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science
$549,400
2016
6 years
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
$4,978,000
2016
6 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
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.
$1,500,000
2016
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endowment of Directorship
To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Intiative Directorship
$10,000,000
2016
11 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endangered Landscapes Programme - Inception Phase
To enable CCI to conduct the preparatory work to establish a re-granting programme dedicated to supporting projects to create habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resillent to environmental change, and to sharing novel replicable techniques that can achieve this.
Learn more$305,000
2016
2 years
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
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
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