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Many Arcus grantees are hard at work building on previous work and initiatives, focusing on priority landscapes and working with a wide variety of apes, including bonobos, chimpanzees, western lowland gorillas, Bornean orangutans, and small apes such as gibbons and siamangs. The Foundation’s latest portfolio of grants seeks to assist them with their initiatives.
Creating a response to anti-LGBT violence and discrimination, particularly in the global south, is the shared goal of several grant recipients in the latest Arcus Foundation portfolio. Efforts to combat discrimination also continue in the United States, particularly given the growing number of political leaders and others who have questioned protections for marginalized and vulnerable groups.
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.
