Environment

The Fund is proud of its efforts to support large-scale, bio-regional initiatives such as protecting Southwestern grasslands, safeguarding marine life, and conserving critical natural resources in the arctic.  The Fund has sought to expand scientific knowledge of these ecosystems, establish protective policy, build public awareness, and generate additional philanthropic support through funding collaboratives like the High Seas Alliance and the Arctic Funders Network.

Today, the Fund focuses on the following areas of environmental grant making:

CLIMATE CHANGE

Seeking to address global climate change through advocacy and awareness-raising, the Fund supports initiatives to lower greenhouse gas emissions, including international partnerships working to reduce the amount of coal-generated electricity in key emitting countries.

The Fund also supports local and state-based natural climate solutions, a critical component in the fight against climate change, as well as the financing mechanisms necessary to bring this important work to scale.

DEEP SEABED PROTECTION

To protect the deep ocean, particularly hydrothermal sea vents threatened by deep-sea mining, the Fund identifies large, ecologically important, and representative areas of the world’s deep seabed to be excluded from destructive mining activities, while working to limit such areas from mining and minimize the adverse impacts of mining where it does occur.

Please note that we make grants by invitation only and do not accept unsolicited requests.