Deadline: Ongoing
The OAK Foundation is accepting applications for its Environment Grant Programme, hoping for more socially and environmentally sustainable societies, for the protection of endangered species and for the transformation of how oceans are perceived and exploited.
Greenhouse gas emissions are causing adverse effects on land and in oceans. The mismanagement of marine resources has led to a global fisheries crisis and a severe loss of biodiversity, and poaching threatens to cause the extinction of wildlife.
Oak Foundation commits its resources to address issues of global, social and environmental concern, particularly those that have a major impact on the lives of the disadvantaged.
Focus Areas
- climate change mitigation
- wildlife conservation
- the conservation of marine resources
Funding Information
Oak Foundation has an annual grant-making budget of more than USD 200 million.
Funding Principles
- Addressing root causes
- Supporting realistic and solutions-based strategies and objectives
- Putting in place the enabling conditions required for an influential and diverse civil society
- Working through others, particularly NGOs
- Working in partnership with grantees and other foundations
- Leveraging resources, taking risks and catalysing broad-scale change
- Taking a longer-term approach
Eligibility Criteria
- Applications are welcomed from the organisations in Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, India and the United States.
- Foundation does not provide support to individuals, and do not provide funding for scholarships or tuition assistance for undergraduate or postgraduate studies.
- Foundation does not fund religious organisations for religious purposes or election campaigns.
How to Apply
Applicants are required to submit the letter of enquiry online via given website.
For more information, please visit Oak Foundation Grants.