Grants awarded

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 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 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.

To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

To digitize fourteen medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and make the results freely available online.

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

Towards a matched endowment to support open-access programmes at MIT Press, including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services.

To provide core support to re:wild to help it expand its work as a regranting partner and fiscal sponsor for nature conservation organizations worldwide.

To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform.

To provide match funding for a long-term endowment from the Legacy Landscape Fund for the conservation of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia.

To promote nature restoration across Europe through the development of innovative models, including a grant programme to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.