Wildlife Grants

Mission

Furbearers Unlimited is dedicated to the promotion of research and proper management of furbearing species, to ensure a harmonious balance of cohabitation with other species within their respective eco-systems. FBU provides support for organizations and research involved with furbearer species and sustainable enterprises related to these species. An explanation  of term "furbearer" can be found here.

NOTE: There is no longer a specific annual project selection deadline. Sea Pact is accepting Letters of Interest (LOI’s) on an open basis.

Introduction

Sea Pact was established in 2013 as a group of leading North American seafood companies dedicated to driving stewardship and continuous improvement of social, economic, and environmental responsibility throughout the global seafood supply chain. Sea Pact has expanded to eleven member businesses, and also redesigned the process for submitting proposals for project funding to consider Letters of Interest (LOI’s) as a way for its Sustainability Consultants and Advisory Committee to evaluate initial project proposals.

Eligible Projects

Sea Pact strives to advance sustainable fisheries and responsible aquaculture practices and provide the building blocks for a long term and sustainable seafood industry. To accomplish this, Sea Pact has pledged to financially contribute to selected projects that are aligned with Sea Pact’s mission. Organizations that are seeking financial support for projects in any of the twelve broad project categories are welcome to apply:Fishery Improvement Projects

• Aquaculture Improvement Projects
• Fisheries Management
• Regional Aquaculture Management
• Social Responsibility
• Gear or Farm Improvements
• Fishery Habitat Restoration
• Fisheries Conservation
• Species Research and Data Collection
• Research to Improve Farming Practices
• Technology
• Communication/ Education

Our Vision

By 2025, native wildlife thrive throughout networks of connected lands and waters in Western North America.

Our Mission

Wilburforce Foundation helps conserve important lands, waters and wildlife in Western North America by supporting organizations and leaders advancing strategic solutions. 

Our Funding Region

Wilburforce has identified several priority regions throughout the North American West, using conservation science to identify regions that correspond with our focus on habitat security, focal species, and wildlife linkages. Within these wide-ranging priority regions, we’ve identified specific areas to focus our funding based on our assessment of opportunities and/or threats to the landscape.

Please reference the map of our funding areas that shows areas in which we have a funding interest. View the specialized Priority Region conservation priorities. 

• Priority Regions
• Alaska/British Columbia:
• Arctic
• BC Central Interior
• Great Bear Rainforest
• Tongass
• Transboundary Watersheds
• Northwest/Southwest
• Cascadia
• Great Basin
• Southwest Crescent
• Yellowstone to Yukon
• Crown of the Continent
• Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem
• Inland Rainforest
• Salmon-Selway / Hells Canyon
• Y2Y Far North
• Our Supporting Programs
• Conservation Science: The Conservation Science Program enhances the ability of our grantees and partners to effectively adopt and share scientific information, methods, tools, and solutions.
• Conservation Law & Policy: The Conservation Law and Policy Program focuses on defending key environmental laws and increasing support for advancing conservation plans, policies, and practices.
• Capacity Building: The Capacity Building Program works with our grantee partners to develop individual and organizational competencies, and increase capabilities that contribute to sustainability and effectiveness.

Types of Support

Wilburforce makes investments that contribute to the following types of outcomes:

• Increase access to and use of scientific, legal, political, and economic information resources;
• Improve the efficiency and effectiveness of grantee organizations conservation leaders, and other allies;
• Increase communication, cooperation and collaboration among grantees, stakeholders, decision-makers and/or allies;
• Increase awareness, support and utilization of conservation policies, plans and practices that protect wildlife habitat;
• Decrease or mitigate threats to wildlife habitat;
• Improve the protected status of wildlife habitat;
• Improve the ecological resilience of the landscapes in which we work.

Read about the Wilburforce Foundation's Strategic Framework here. 

The Wildlife Conservation Society is pleased to announce a new round of grantmaking through its Climate Adaptation Fund. This program supports projects that advance learning and scale effective climate adaptation interventions to help wildlife, ecosystems and the people who value and depend on them. The Climate Adaptation Fund is made possible through the generous support of the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.

History

Emma Elizabeth Barnsley was born on December 10, 1926 in Crane County, Texas and grew up in the areas of Crane, Midland, and Odessa, Texas. She moved to New York City as a young woman where she spent most of her adult life. Ms. Barnsley had a deep love for animals of all kinds. It is because of this passion she established the Emma Barnsley Foundation for the purposes of the prevention of cruelty to animals and the study, care, protection, and preservation of animals, both domestic and wild, and their environment. Ms. Barnsley passed away on August 1, 2007 in New York.

Mission

The mission of the Emma Barnsley Foundation is to promote the prevention of cruelty to animals and for the study, care, protection, and preservation of animals, both domestic and wild, and their environment.

Giving

The Emma Barnsley Foundation awards grants exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes as follows:

• To aid and assist in the prevention of cruelty to animals, both domestic and wild.

• To aid and assist in the care, protection and preservation of animals, both domestic and wild, and the environment in which such wild animals may live.

• To provide scholarships for deserving young men and women to assist them in the study of veterinary medicine at any institution of higher learning in the state of Texas.

• To assist institutions of higher learning in the state of Texas in the operation and maintenance of courses of study in veterinary medicine and in the study of animals and animal life.

• To assist in research projects involving ecological, environmental, and wildlife studies, provided no funds shall be given to any organization utilizing animals for research or experimental purposes if such animals are in any way harmed, mutilated, intentionally inflicted with disease or any substance causing disease, or if such animals are killed in the course of such research.

WILDLIFE, ENDANGERED SPECIES – THEIR ENVIRONMENT, AND ANIMALS HELPING PEOPLE

Areas of Interest:

• Species Protection: Programs that protect endangered species, the environment and habitat necessary for species survival, and programs that educate the public about their plight
• Animals Helping People: Horses, dogs, monkeys, and certain wildlife species interactions that better human lives
• Animal Shelters and Hospitals: Support for programs serving both wild and domestic animals