Grants awarded

Towards the development phase of a documentary film by Lizzie MacKenzie.

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich terrestrial and marine habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

To support a joint grant programme with Bloomberg Philanthropies for work towards the target of protecting 30% of the world’s marine and coastal areas by 2030.

Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.

To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and to support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.

To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.

To support ClientEarth’s work using legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance.

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.

To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.

To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.

To provide support to environmental organizations, citizen groups and grassroots movements to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law.

To establish an endowment fund to provide annual fellowships for scholars working at the Center for Jewish History and with the collections of the Center and its partners.

Towards supporting post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.

Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism which promotes equitable cities and resilient landscapes.

To support DSCC’s work to protect deep-sea ecosystems from fishing and mining, and strengthen biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.

To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.