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LGBTQ movements grow across borders and issue areas

To build a world in which all LGBTQ people live with dignity, safety, and opportunity, activists and advocates are coming together across issues and borders. Arcus’ latest Social Justice Program grants—which were prepared before the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) became a global pandemic in March—will provide support to organizations working within ever stronger and more interconnected movements that are changing perceptions, policies, and lives.

Protecting habitats, improving conservation, and providing sanctuary for great apes and gibbons

The world’s bonobos, chimpanzees, gibbons, gorillas, and orangutans are under threat everywhere they live, but dedicated organizations are working hard to safeguard them. The latest grants in Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program bolster efforts to protect crucial habitats and support learning and advocacy to improve conservation around the world.

Statement from the Board President and CEO of Arcus Foundation Regarding COVID-19

Dear friends and partners, We are all facing a global situation that is unprecedented in living memory. But it is not the first time in history that we have come face-to-face with the fact that we humans are part and parcel of nature itself.

Partners work to unite diverse stakeholders in conservation efforts while holding destructive actors to account

From having their habitats destroyed to pave the way for large-scale development projects or agriculture, to being hunted for food, to being exploited by the entertainment industry—great apes and gibbons face multiple human-made threats to their survival. Fortunately, a growing number of organizations are working to save the world’s remaining nonhuman apes from extinction.

Social justice groups fight rollbacks on LGBTQ rights around the world, connect diverse movements

When it comes to making progress, human rights work is often a case of two steps forward, one step back. Perhaps no one knows this better than Arcus’ winter 2019 Social Justice Program grantees, which are working across Africa and the Americas to protect the dignity and advance the rights of LGBTQ people.

Partnerships Enable Support to a Wide Range of Grassroots Groups in Social Justice Priority Regions

Grants awarded in Arcus’ fall Social Justice Program docket to seven organizations will enable Arcus Foundation to reach dozens of small, grassroots groups led by those most impacted by hate violence, discrimination, and marginalization in our focus areas. Continued support for UHAI-EASHRI, a grantmaking organization in Kenya that supports LGBTI groups in East African countries, will not only provide core funding, but also enable those groups to convene at a biennial conference.

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LGBTQ movements grow across borders and issue areas

Protecting habitats, improving conservation, and providing sanctuary for great apes and gibbons

Statement from the Board President and CEO of Arcus Foundation Regarding COVID-19

Partners work to unite diverse stakeholders in conservation efforts while holding destructive actors to account

Social justice groups fight rollbacks on LGBTQ rights around the world, connect diverse movements

Partnerships Enable Support to a Wide Range of Grassroots Groups in Social Justice Priority Regions

Arcus Foundation
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U.K. Office

Social Justice Program

Great Apes & Gibbons Program

LGBTQ movements grow across borders and issue areas

Protecting habitats, improving conservation, and providing sanctuary for great apes and gibbons

Statement from the Board President and CEO of Arcus Foundation Regarding COVID-19

Partners work to unite diverse stakeholders in conservation efforts while holding destructive actors to account

Social justice groups fight rollbacks on LGBTQ rights around the world, connect diverse movements

Partnerships Enable Support to a Wide Range of Grassroots Groups in Social Justice Priority Regions

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.