The Christensen Fund

Biodiversity, culture, indigenous communities, conservation

The Christensen Fund believes in the power of biological and cultural diversity to sustain and enrich a world faced with great change and uncertainty. It focuses on the biocultural – the rich but neglected adaptive interweave of people and place, culture and ecology. Its mission is to buttress the efforts of people and institutions who believe in a biodiverse world infused with artistic expression and work to secure ways of life and landscapes that are beautiful, bountiful and resilient. It pursues this mission through place-based work. The fund focuses on backing the efforts of locally-recognized community custodians of this heritage, and their alliances with scholars, artists, advocates and others. The Christensen Fund also fund international efforts to build global understanding of these issues. The fund works primarily through grant making, as well as through capacity and network building, knowledge generation, collaboration and mission-related investments. The Christensen Fund crafts its grant making and other activities on the conviction that worldwide diversity – both cultural and biological – is hugely valuable and should be cared for. Diversity is not only beautiful and meaningful, but also provides a storehouse of ideas, practice and knowledge and supports life forms and ecological processes. This key arena for our actions sustains and sharpens The Christensen Fund’s longstanding tradition of attention to conservation science, visual arts and education.

Education

North America, Asia Pacific, Asia, Africa

Grant

The eligibility criteria vary according to the programme. For more information please check website.

The Christensen Fund, 487 Bryant St, 2nd Floor, San Francisco, California 94107, United States of America; Fax:(+1) 415 644 16

San Francisco

United States of America

Biodiversity, Community, Conservation, Culture

Asia, Africa, America