The Fund has been established to provide targeted grants to individual species conservation
initiatives, recognize leaders in the field and elevate the importance
of species in the broader conservation debate. Its focus is global and
eligibility for grants will extend to all plant, animal and fungi species conservation efforts, without discrimination on the basis of region or selected species.
Grants will be awarded based on their ability to meet criteria pre-determined by the Species Fund, and are for maximum of $25,000 for each project.
Criteria
The Fund intends to be as flexible and accommodating as
possible when reviewing applications, and to take into account as many
different factors as is reasonable when assessing the merit of a
suggested project. To support this and to try to streamline the
application process, the review process is kept comparatively simple.
However,
the Fund does receive many more applications for support than grants
could possibly be provided, so please find below some criteria and
guidelines which would be useful to bear in mind when submitting an
application.
Language: Applications must be submitted in English.
Currency: Budgets must be submitted in US Dollars.
Maximum Grant: The
Fund maximum grant size is $25,000, and any application asking for more
than this from the Fund will be rejected. The total budget of a project
can be higher if there are other sources of funding.
Conservation status: The Fund was established to support species conservation work, and so if your project is not about an endangered species it is probably not worth your while submitting an application.
Generally applications received before the end of February will receive a
reply at the end of April or early May. The next submission deadline
will be the last day of June, (and applicants will receive a reply in
September). The final round of grants in a given year usually has a
deadline of the end of October, with applicants receiving a repsonse in
late December of the same year or early January of the following year.
