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Supporting Community Visions of Safety and Justice for LGBTQ People

The latest grants in Arcus’ Social Justice Program focus on community initiatives to document and address violence and discrimination, protect and empower the most vulnerable, increase safety and inclusion, and organize and advocate for LGBTQ people and communities around the world. Resourcing community self-determination UHAI EASHRI and Astraea Lesbian Foundation for Justice received multi-year funding to support groups strengthening LGBTQ safety, security, and community in East Africa and the Caribbean, respectively.

Funding Conservation in All Its Complexity

The latest round of Great Apes & Gibbons Program grants funds multifaceted efforts to further knowledge and understanding, strengthen conservation networks as well as progressive sanctuaries, and employ best practices in protecting habitats and conserving endangered species. Traditional stewardship and community coexistence Local people are often the best protectors of nature if they are supported to remain on and manage their lands.

Katy Scholfield Joins Arcus as Great Apes & Gibbons Director for Strategic Grantmaking

NEW YORK, NY; CAMBRIDGE, UK – The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, is pleased to announce the appointment of Katy Scholfield (preferred gender pronouns: she/her) to the Great Apes & Gibbons Program as Director for Strategic Grantmaking. In this new role, Scholfield will oversee the foundation’s conservation grantmaking across Africa and Southeast Asia, where Arcus focuses on the conservation and well-being of gorillas, chimpanzees, orangutans, bonobos, and gibbons in both sanctuaries and their natural habitats.

Shifting Cultures, Policies, and Philanthropy Toward LGBTQ Equality

LGBTQ movements are making historic progress. In February, the Equality Act, which would expand non-discrimination protections for LGBTQ Americans at the federal level, passed the U.

A Holistic Approach to Protecting Apes

As vulnerable members of complex ecosystems, nonhuman apes are threatened by the economic, health, and environmental crises created by humans. In this interconnected reality, wildlife conservation must take a holistic approach, respecting the links between human, wildlife, and environmental health and well-being.

Influencing Corporations and Finance, Engaging Communities to Protect Wildlife

Nonhuman apes are under threat everywhere they live. As people around the world consume more and more products relying on resources that come out of their tropical forest homes, bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas, and orangutans are increasingly vulnerable to habitat degradation and destruction.

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Supporting Community Visions of Safety and Justice for LGBTQ People

Funding Conservation in All Its Complexity

Katy Scholfield Joins Arcus as Great Apes & Gibbons Director for Strategic Grantmaking

Shifting Cultures, Policies, and Philanthropy Toward LGBTQ Equality

A Holistic Approach to Protecting Apes

Influencing Corporations and Finance, Engaging Communities to Protect Wildlife

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U.K. Office

Social Justice Program

Great Apes & Gibbons Program

Supporting Community Visions of Safety and Justice for LGBTQ People

Funding Conservation in All Its Complexity

Katy Scholfield Joins Arcus as Great Apes & Gibbons Director for Strategic Grantmaking

Shifting Cultures, Policies, and Philanthropy Toward LGBTQ Equality

A Holistic Approach to Protecting Apes

Influencing Corporations and Finance, Engaging Communities to Protect Wildlife

Arcus Foundation Push Boundaries. Make Change.

U.S. Office

Sign Up To Receive Arcus Publications and Email Notifications

U.K. Office

Social Justice Program

Great Apes & Gibbons Program

Arcus Foundation
Push Boundaries.
Make Change.