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Arcadia Fund
The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organization founded by Lisbet Rausing and 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 is to preserve endangered culture and nature and to provide open access. The organisation believes that "once memories, knowledge, skills, variety, and intricacy disappear – once the old complexities are lost – they are hard to replicate or replace" and consequently want to "build a vibrant, resilient, green future".
Since 2002, the fund has provided more than $910 million in projects around the world. According to the OECD, the Arcadia Fund's financing for 2019 development increased by 6% to US$55 million.
The foundation is controlled by its three trustees (Lisbet Rausing, Peter Baldwin and Johannes Burger) and its team of nine members. The fund also has an advisory board of seven members.
Since its inception, the fund has averaged yearly grant awards of $35,625,000. Its grants are divided into five categories: Cultural, Environmental, Open Access, Discretionary and Discontinued Themes. As seen by the Table 41% of grant funding is cultural, 37% Environmental, 6% Open Access, 8% Discretionary and 7% Legacy.
Its supported causes have been-as mentioned earlier-the preservation of endangered culture and nature and the provision of open access. The fund has a selected issues criterion which the organization uses to choose grants. The methodology of grant choices has not changed since 2002. However, supported causes have altered slightly.
The organization aims to provide cultural grants to universities, archives or museums that preserve cultural heritage and digitize near-extinct cultural heritage. Additionally, it intends to supply environmental grants to organizations that preserve endangered habitats at risk land as well as trains staff and enable research and policy development. It also aims to provide open access grants to increase obtention of free material such online as research papers and publications.
Previously, the fund also supported causes such as human rights, philanthropy and education; however, the support for these causes have been discontinued since 2009. Before this support was discontinued, the fund supported organizations that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's right advocacy.
The fund awards grants to organisations preserving endangered culture, preserving nature, and promoting open access.
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Arcadia Fund
The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organization founded by Lisbet Rausing and 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 is to preserve endangered culture and nature and to provide open access. The organisation believes that "once memories, knowledge, skills, variety, and intricacy disappear – once the old complexities are lost – they are hard to replicate or replace" and consequently want to "build a vibrant, resilient, green future".
Since 2002, the fund has provided more than $910 million in projects around the world. According to the OECD, the Arcadia Fund's financing for 2019 development increased by 6% to US$55 million.
The foundation is controlled by its three trustees (Lisbet Rausing, Peter Baldwin and Johannes Burger) and its team of nine members. The fund also has an advisory board of seven members.
Since its inception, the fund has averaged yearly grant awards of $35,625,000. Its grants are divided into five categories: Cultural, Environmental, Open Access, Discretionary and Discontinued Themes. As seen by the Table 41% of grant funding is cultural, 37% Environmental, 6% Open Access, 8% Discretionary and 7% Legacy.
Its supported causes have been-as mentioned earlier-the preservation of endangered culture and nature and the provision of open access. The fund has a selected issues criterion which the organization uses to choose grants. The methodology of grant choices has not changed since 2002. However, supported causes have altered slightly.
The organization aims to provide cultural grants to universities, archives or museums that preserve cultural heritage and digitize near-extinct cultural heritage. Additionally, it intends to supply environmental grants to organizations that preserve endangered habitats at risk land as well as trains staff and enable research and policy development. It also aims to provide open access grants to increase obtention of free material such online as research papers and publications.
Previously, the fund also supported causes such as human rights, philanthropy and education; however, the support for these causes have been discontinued since 2009. Before this support was discontinued, the fund supported organizations that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's right advocacy.
The fund awards grants to organisations preserving endangered culture, preserving nature, and promoting open access.