{Note: Links may be not be active - please refer to our grantmaking pages for additional details.} Today, we posted our Request for Proposals that will generate most of our grantmaking in 2019. We are happy to stay the course…
SEATTLE, Washington – December 19, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces a grant award of $80,000, to support the development of the Kenya Biodiversity Atlas. The investment supports JRS’ Capacity Development program to increase access to biodiversity data and…
SEATTLE, Washington – December 13, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces two new grant awards, totaling $314,500, to create access to wetlands biodiversity data in Rwanda. These investments support the JRS Freshwater Biodiversity and Resources Program to enable the…
Behind one website, TRIANA, is a story of persistence, dedication, and years of massive effort by the National University of Colombia (UNC). TRIANA is the home for the four of the University’s botanical repositories: Flora de Colombia, Dictionary of Common…
Lake Malawi, also called Lake Nyasa in Tanzania and Lago Niassa in Mozambique, contains more species of fish than any other lake in the world. These fishes are a source of food for millions, provide livelihoods for thousands, support eco-tourism…
SEATTLE, Washington – October 5, 2018 – the Centre for Agriculture and Biosciences International (CABI) has published one of the most complete and current datasets on Invasive Alien Plants (IAP) in East and Southern Africa. This extraordinary dataset is already…
SEATTLE, Washington – September 18, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces two new grant awards, totaling $306,510, to support pollinator biodiversity data in Tanzania. These investments are a part of the JRS Pollinator Biodiversity and Resources Program, committed to…
We recently announced our sixth and seventh major projects in our freshwater grant portfolio that each create a notable point in our constellation of projects. Our Freshwater Biodiversity & Resources program aims to support freshwater ecosystem assessments and decision-making regarding…
SEATTLE, Washington – September 11, 2018 – The JRS Biodiversity Foundation announces three new grant awards, totaling $545,000, to support access to freshwater biodiversity data in Kenya, Rwanda, and Uganda. These investments are a part of the JRS Freshwater Biodiversity…
Private foundations have a unique opportunity to invest in solutions to complex problems and to do so for the long haul. Today, we announced two grants that can each be placed on a long arc of support for biodiversity information…
