The South African Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) announced that teams from four countries, Rwanda, Ghana, Malawi, and Namibia, will compete in the JRS-funded African Biodiversity Challenge. The competition aims to develop strategies for capturing, digitizing and publishing policy-relevant national biodiversity data and strengthen…
Bonnie Cockman has spent her career leading the finance and operations of fast-growing, entrepreneurial non-profit organizations whose missions align with her passions. Most recently, Cockman helped launch Mothers Out Front, an organization building a diverse, national movement of mothers to call on…
SEATTLE, Washington – SEPTEMBER 15, 2016 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce two new planning grants, totaling $45,000, to support project development of freshwater biodiversity information systems in Zambia and in South Africa. Both projects are part…
JRS Biodiversity Foundation is pleased to announce a grant of $29,000 made to the Wildlife Conservation Society to facilitate the planning of an online data portal for lemurs in Madagascar. The project will build partnerships with stakeholders in the lemur conservation community to evaluate the…
As JRS welcomes the new year, we are excited to start 2016 with two new members of the JRS Board of Trustees: Dr. Sandy Andelman and Dr. Sarah Lynch. Sandy Andelman is Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President for Conservation International. She…
SEATTLE, Washington – August 5, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced a new $94,000 grant to study the role of biodiversity information on national policy cycles in Latin America. The research will be led by NatureServe researcher Dr.…
We've all heard the one about the tree falling in the forest, but here's your biodiversity koan for the day: If a biodiversity datum is produced, and no one can find it, does it create change? JRS Biodiversity Foundation contracted an independent study…
The Transparency Talk blog of the Foundation Center's initiative "Glass Pockets" featured JRS' grant-making and grant-management approach as described by Don Doering, JRS' Executive Director. The blog, In Pursuit of Better Outcomes Through Transparency-Fueled Adaptability, describes how JRS' mission to…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 30, 2015 -- The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announced today three new grants that offer effective approaches to making biodiversity data more accessible in sub-Saharan Africa. The funding to the African Conservation Centre’s biodiversity portal in Kenya…
SEATTLE, Washington – January 16, 2015 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation today announced funding for three new grants that support biodiversity policy research. These grants will create a better understanding of the policy landscape among African countries that shapes the…
