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Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

Conservation of endangered apes and their forest habitats cannot be achieved without careful consideration of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities who also live in and depend on these landscapes. While much progress remains to be made, our partners supported by grants awarded during the third quarter of 2021 are working to increase community involvement in conservation decision-making while continuing to implement critical protection and monitoring efforts.

Advancing LGBTQ Equality and Social Justice Globally

Grantee partners awarded funding during the third quarter of 2021 in Arcus’ Social Justice Program are building a world where LGBTQ people can live with dignity, safety, and opportunity. Across the southern United States, and countries within East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, South and Central America, and Mexico, these organizations are shaping strategies based on the needs of local communities while strengthening national, regional, and international movements.

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.

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Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

Advancing LGBTQ Equality and Social Justice Globally

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

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Social Justice Program

Great Apes & Gibbons Program

Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind

Advancing LGBTQ Equality and Social Justice Globally

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

Arcus Foundation Push Boundaries. Make Change.

U.S. Office

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U.K. Office

Social Justice Program

Great Apes & Gibbons Program

Arcus Foundation
Push Boundaries.
Make Change.