Christensen Fund (TCF)
The Christensen Fund (www.christensenfund.org) is a fifty-year old foundation in Northern California with a long history of funding the arts, environmental conservation, and education locally and internationally. Since 2002, the foundation has focused its mission around bio-cultural diversity (the intersection of biological and cultural richness and complexity). Grant programs mostly support local initiatives and stewards in specific locations around the world, which have unique heritage and are likely to play an important role for sustaining diversity.
GRANTS
Geographic Focus
The Christensen Fund (TCF) focuses its grant making on maintaining the rich diversity of the world—biological and cultural—over the long run, by focusing on five geographic regions:
The Greater Southwest (Southwest USA and Northwest Mexico)
Central Asia and Turkey (currently focusing on the mountains and associated valleys of Northeast Turkey, the Kyrgyz Republic and Tajikistan)
The African Rift Valley (especially Southwest Ethiopia and also Northern Kenya)
Northern Australia (currently focused on Arnhem Land, Far Northern Queensland, the Kimberley and the Torres Strait Islands)
Melanesia (sub-region of Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu)*
Grants within the regional programs are generally directed to organizations based within those regions or, where appropriate, to internationally based organizations working in support of the efforts of people and institutions on the ground.
Grant size is typically in the $50,000 to $100,000 range over one or two years, with larger multiyear grants being available generally to our established local partners and per invitation
Global Bio-cultural Initiative
Applications are welcome within the following framework: to support efforts aimed at building and sharing global knowledge, wisdom and practice of stewardship of bio-cultural diversity, landscape integrity and resilience, as well as supporting global institutions and policies that sustain diversity, in particular around agro-diversity and food sovereignty.
Maximum grant size at this time is $200,000 over two years (Larger grants are by invitation only.)
APPLYING FOR A GRANT AND DEADLINES
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