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Arcus’ spring grantmaking portfolio gives support for recipients to carry out a wide variety of great ape and gibbon conservation efforts, offering opportunities to improve chimpanzee care facilities and to strengthen protections for apes in their natural habitats. The Jane Goodall Institute will use its grant to support the collaborative implementation of the Conservation Action Plan for the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, in a partnership with eight conservation organizations.
Many of the recipients of support in Arcus’ spring 2018 grantmaking portfolio are focusing on educational and legal strategies to amplify the messages of the LGBTQI community, from media training to advancing human rights litigation and policy analysis. They are also harnessing the positive voices within religious communities to advocate for acceptance and inclusion.
Advocating for the rights of LGBTQ persons across the globe and through a variety of channels is the goal of the grants in the winter Arcus Foundation portfolio. From working with transgender and intersex groups to faith leaders and regional organizations, organizations continue to fight to raise awareness and combat discrimination against the LGBTQ community.
The grants awarded by Arcus as part of the winter cycle of funding address the ways in which conservation practitioners are concentrating on various threats to great apes. They are focusing not only on the threats, but also the drivers of those threats, and how they destroy habitats or populations of apes.
MEDIA CONTACT: Andy Marra, Communications Manager Arcus Foundation 646-837-8879 amarra@arcusfoundation. org NEW YORK, NY (December 11, 2017) — The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Maya L.
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.
