Grant programmes
Organizations and individuals can apply for funding through our grant programmes.
Our grant programmes are hosted by trusted partners. They help us to determine where our support is most needed and distribute grants to individuals and organizations.
We choose partners that have the knowledge and capacity to identify where the greatest need and opportunity exists. Each grant programme invites applications on a specific theme. Expert advisory panels review the grants, which the partner organization then manages.
We also participate in collaborative funding initiatives with other foundations.
These partnerships allow us to support local initiatives worldwide that deliver clear outcomes.
We have five nature grant programmes and five culture grant programmes.
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme
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.
Oceans 5 Partnership
To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.
European Open Rivers Programme
To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.
Marine protection fund
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.
Earth Investigations Programme
To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Endangered Archives Programme
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.
Modern Endangered Archives Program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.
Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme
The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme, hosted by Oxford Brookes University, awards grants to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings.