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MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Marra, Communications Manager Arcus Foundation 646-837-8879 amarra@arcusfoundation. org NEW YORK, NY –– The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today the selection of 12 executive directors to participate in the Arcus Leadership Fellowship.
Creating a response to conservative religious voices and anti-LGBT discrimination, with a particular focus on the continent of Africa, is the shared goal of several of the grants in Arcus’ summer 2017 portfolio. Auburn Theological Seminary is working to build bridges between African and American faith leaders to protect vulnerable populations in the wake of the U.
Arcus’ summer 2017 grant portfolio seeks to help grantees manage conservation areas for the protection of great apes, often in the absence of adequate governmental ability or political will in the regions in which they work. African Parks Foundation of America seeks to build projects that are conceived on a large scale in contexts where the government’s ability to manage protected areas is either limited or absent.
The spring 2017 grant portfolio of the Arcus Foundation includes funds aimed at strengthening the backbone of the LGBT movement internationally, with seven grants reflecting efforts to do so within progressive faith movements, both in Islam and Christianity. The Muslim Women’s Network Inclusive Mosque Initiative, one of a handful of LGBTQ-identified Islamic religious communities, received funding to work in partnership with the Inclusive Mosque Initiative to engage in advocacy and promote inclusive theology within the Muslim community.
Strengthening the scientific basis of conservation efforts from West Africa to southern Borneo is a focus of the Arcus Foundation’s spring 2017 portfolio of grants in its Great Apes Program, targeting efforts from pristine and frontier landscapes to protected sanctuaries. In the Mahale Mountains National Park of Tanzania, which hosts almost one-third of Tanzania’s eastern chimpanzee population, a grant will enable Liverpool John Moores University to conduct a critical census of this population, led by Dr.
New York, NY – (January 24, 2017) – The Arcus Foundation announced today the appointment of Annette Lanjouw, previously Vice President, Great Apes Program and Strategic Initiatives, and Jason McGill, previously Vice President of Social Justice Program, as Co-Executive Directors of the foundation. Lanjouw and McGill will retain responsibility for the Great Apes and Social Justice programs as they assume executive leadership of Arcus, following the departure of Kevin Jennings, who had led the foundation as Executive Director making significant contributions since 2012.
