Deadline: 1-Aug-25
The International Elephant Foundation’s Elephant Conservation and Research Funding Support Program is now open for Application Submissions.
IEF is interested in supporting effective, sustainable conservation projects that will make a positive impact for elephants, habitats and the communities that share their land.
Funding Information
- The average Grant Award is $15,000 per year.
Eligible Projects
- IEF prefers to support annual and multi-year projects that address:
- Human-Elephant Conflict prevention and mitigation
- Habitat conservation and management;
- Conservation education and community outreach;
- Transfrontier or transboundary elephant conservation;
- Elephant protection programs including anti-poaching patrols, infra-structure development, security, investigation and prosecution;
- Reducing and preventing the ivory and bushmeat trade; and
- Research into elephant diseases.
Criteria
- Before you begin to write your proposal, consider that IEF prefers to fund:
- Community-based programs that show promise for future growth;
- Projects that have an immediate and measurable effect on elephant conservation;
- Projects that can be accomplished and their success initially evaluated within a year, or two years if the proposal indicates a longer timeframe;
- Project investigators’ CV demonstrates experience or a strong indication of their ability to be successful; and
- Project investigator has established field-based operations in the project area.
Ineligibility Criteria
- These are some items that IEF will not fund:
- Out of country travel to project site;
- Purchase of guns and ammunition;
- Paid informants;
- Tuition fees for Advanced Degrees; and
- Overhead, indirect, contingency, and miscellaneous costs.
For more information, visit IEF.