Arcadia Fund
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Formation | 2001[1] |
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Founders | |
Purpose | Preserve Endangered Cultural Heritage and Ecosystems, Promoting Open Access |
Headquarters | London, England, UK |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Professor Peter Baldwin(Trustee)|Lisbet Rausing (Trustee)|Dr Johannes Burger (Trustee)| |
Endowment | $570 million (2019)[update][2] |
Employees | 9 |
Website | www |
The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organisation founded by Lisbet Rausing and Professor Peter Baldwin. Established in 2001, the organisation provides grants on a worldwide basis focusing on numerous projects outside the UK. The primary focus of the organisation involves preserving endangered culture, preserving endangered nature and providing open access.[3] Since 2002, the fund has provided in excess of $570 million in projects around the world.[4]
The foundation is controlled by its three trustees (Lisbet Rausing, Peter Baldwin and Dr Johannes Burger) and its team of 9 members. The fund also has an advisory board of 7 members.[5]
History
Talk about its yearly breakdown in grant total, its focus on what type of grants they are primarily aiming for, Describe the change in philosophical views over the years.
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Activities
Arcadia’s activities revolve wholly around their grant program in which the Fund aims to look for organisations that are are dynamic, well researched and can deliver on the objectives of endangered culture, nature and promoting open access.[6]
Culture
Environment
Open Access
In September 2017, Arcadia donated $5 million to the Wikimedia Foundation. This contribution was the largest contribution to the foundation to date and was vital to help support the growth of the Wikimedia Campaign. Further, the Grant was matched by another $5 million in donations from major gifts teams in FY 2016/17. [7] Additionally in 2019 the foundation gave an additional $3.5 million to the endowment bringing their endowment total to $8.5 million.
Discretionary
Grant Statistics/Graphs
Recipiant | Title of Grant | Value ($USD) | Type Of Grant | Description of Grant |
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School of Oriental and African Studies | Endangered Languages Documentation Programme | 33,851,813 | Cultural | |
University of Cambridge | Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endangered Landscapes Programme | 31,441,100 | Environmental | |
Fauna & Flora International | Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support | 27,000,000 | Environemental | |
Yale University | Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage | 25,000,000 | Cultural | |
Yale University | The Hall of Graduate Studies | 25,000,000 | Discretionary | |
British Library | Endangered Archives Programme | 16,960,153 | Cultural | |
School of Oriental and African Studies | Endangered Languages Documentation Programme | 11,000,000 | Cultural | |
Harvard University | College fellows fund | 10,000,000 | Cultural | |
University of California Los Angeles | Endowment to Department of History | 10,000,000 | Cultural | |
University of Cambridge | Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endowment of Directorship | 10,000,000 | Environmental | |
Harvard University | Supporting Open Access with Harvard Library | 9,000,000 | Open Access |
References
- ^ "Arcadia - preserve endangered culture and nature". Arcadia Fund. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ Cite error: The named reference
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was invoked but never defined (see the help page). - ^ foundationguide. "Arcadia Fund". Foundation Guide. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "Arcadia - preserve endangered culture and nature". Arcadia Fund. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "People - The Arcadia team". Arcadia Fund. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "Grants - dynamic, sustainable and well researched programmes". Arcadia Fund. Retrieved 2019-05-01.
- ^ "Matching gift grows Wikimedia Endowment by $10 million – Wikimedia Blog". Retrieved 2019-05-04.