Grants awarded

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.

To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform

Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.

Towards the documentation of endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’, part of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis.

To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs

Towards preserving, documenting and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora

Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum

To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

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.

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to document traditional skills and practices used in making or using things. It supports projects that document practices and skills that are being lost as mass-produced objects replace handmade items. The digitized records are available for free online.

Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.

The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme gives grants to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings. The programme makes permanent records of these structures and practices and makes them freely available online.

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.

Towards the Wende Museum's acquisition of Eastern Bloc artefacts and care for its existing collection.

To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results available online through an open-access database.