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 August 2026). 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.

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Center for International Forestry Research

Nature
Supporting restoration leaders

$15,000

2024 | 1 year

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To support eight young, local restoration leaders to attend the COP16 and Global Landscapes Forum events in Cali, Colombia in October 2024.

Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge

Nature
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership

$3,000,000

2022 | 10 years

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To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.

Yale School of the Environment

Nature
Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI)

$3,000,000

2022 | 5 years

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To provide training for people working in conservation in Asia and Central and South America.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Conservation Evidence

$138,000

2021 | 1 year

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To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.

International Union for Conservation of Nature

Nature
Global Urban Alliance

$434,700

2020 | 3 years

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To establish a global alliance to develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify the challenges of becoming greener environments and evaluate their efforts to do so.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Conservation Evidence

$177,672

2020 | 1 year

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To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.

Conservation Leadership Programme

Nature
Core support

$5,999,917

2019 | 6 years

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To support early-career local conservationists and projects in biodiverse countries that often lack resources for conservation.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endowment of Directorship

$10,000,000

2016 | 11 years

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To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Directorship.

Yale School of the Environment

Nature
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)

$4,978,000

2016 | 6 years

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To provide training for conservation practitioners in Asia and Central America.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund

$1,500,000

2016 | 3 years

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To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme

$549,400

2016 | 6 years

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To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.

Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge

Nature
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership

$1,625,000

2015 | 5 years

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To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Conservation Evidence

$1,060,000

2015 | 5 years

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To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.

Smithsonian, National Museum of Natural History

Nature
Field book project - South America

$511,200

2015 | 3 years

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To digitize travellers’ and naturalists’ field manuscripts on South America from 1800 to 2000 and make them freely available online.

Tropical Biology Association

Nature
Conservation training in Africa

$486,358

2014 | 3 years

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To provide core support to help the Association develop its training for African biodiversity conservation professionals.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Executive Director's post

$2,253,272

2013 | 6 years

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To support the leadership of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

Tropical Biology Association

Nature
Conservation training in Madagascar

$120,000

2013 | 1 year

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To train young Malagasy, African and European biologists for careers in conservation.

Tropical Biology Association

Nature
Conservation training in Madagascar

$110,241

2012 | 1 year

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To train young Malagasy, African and European biologists for careers in conservation.

Ecology Trust

Nature
Environmental Funders Network

$105,378

2012 | 4 years

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To support the creation and development of a network of environmental funders in the UK.

Yale School of the Environment

Nature
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)

$5,500,000

2011 | 7 years

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To provide training for conservation practitioners in Asia and Central America.