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Arcus has partnered with more than 400 organizations, ranging in scope from advocacy groups to community centers to sanctuaries. We learn from one another by together taking bold risks on groundbreaking ideas, which drive progress toward a future of respect and dignity for all. We partner with experts, activists, and other brave advocates for change who confront injustice around the world.

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Arcus Foundation grantees have worked in more than 30 countries around the world, and affect millions of lives. In 2019, more than $13 million was awarded to organizations working to protect the great apes and gibbons, and more than $14 million was awarded to organizations working to advance social justice for LGBT people around the world.
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South Africa Rights Groups Step Up Watch On Transgender Prisoners After COVID-19 Lockdown 

Transgender prisoners in South Africa won an unprecedented 2019 court victory for the right to express their gender identity. But they are likely to see higher barriers to the realization of this right because of the country's COVID-19 state of disaster.

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Borneo Indigenous Leader Boosts Security for Orangutans and Neighbors

As a child, Wendi Tamariska saw orangutans roaming the tropical rainforest trees that surrounded his village in West Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo. But when he returned after training to be a teacher, both the trees and orangutans were gone.

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“I Know Who I Am, But My Country Doesn’t Recognize Me”

“There are many acts of violence against trans bodies—some are perpetrated by the state or allowed by its institutions,” he says. “Our bodies become the first level of resistance, and living our gender identities shows that LGBTI people are everywhere in Honduran society.”

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As Chimpanzee Habitat in Guinea Is Threatened, Environmentalists Join Forces to Save Lives

Little was known about Simon, an emaciated and malnourished baby chimpanzee, when he was confiscated from an unknown man by police last June in Conakry, the capital of Guinea, West Africa. Ragged and with a dull tone to his fur, the 10-month-old was handed over to a local wildlife protection agency, which took him to the Chimpanzee Conservation Center, a sanctuary inside one of the region’s most important protected areas, the 1,200-square-kilometer Haut Niger National Park.

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LGBTQ Migrants to the U.S. Fight to Stay Safe

“We are not criminals. We are human beings who have rights like any person.” This is the postscript of a three-page letter written by 29 trans and gender nonconforming migrants being held at the Cibola County Correctional Center in Milan, New Mexico, about 80 miles west of Albuquerque.

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As Mountain Gorillas Reach Crossroads, Conservationists Urge Caution

Some scientists thought mountain gorillas would be extinct by now. Instead, at the end of last year, their official conservation status got a promotion—from critically endangered to endangered—for the first time, thanks to population survey results released earlier in 2018.

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