Claire Stryker Joins Arcus Board of Directors
Release Date:
09/20/2023
Claire is the most recent addition to what is now a board of eight committed and influential advocates for social and environmental justice.
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Arcus Foundation announces social justice and ape conservation grants
Release Date:
07/02/2023
The Arcus Foundation has announced new grants through its Great Apes & Gibbons program and Social Justice program.
Mexico’s Muxe Leaders Assert Rights and Strengthen “Social Armor” Through Visibility - Work Supported by The Arcus Foundation Grantee
Release Date:
02/21/2023
A group of leaders from within the muxe community of Mexico’s southeastern Oaxaca state is achieving significant advances in influencing how they are seen by wider society and treated by public agencies responsible for the local population’s health...
Arcus Foundation Releases Social Justice Program Strategy Evaluation Report: 2021
Release Date:
01/23/2023
The evaluation report provides updates on implementing strategies for grantmaking to movements and organizations working toward LGBTQ rights in East and Southern Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and the southern United States.
Adam Sweidan Joins Arcus Foundation Board of Directors
Release Date:
12/08/2022
The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today that Adam Sweidan, a leading conservationist and philanthropist, has joined the foundation’s board of directors.
Alli Jernow Joins Arcus Foundation as Social Justice Program Vice President
Release Date:
08/24/2022
Alli Jernow will join the foundation as vice president of the Social Justice Program effective September 26.
Arcus Foundation Shares Findings from the Grantee Perception Report Administered by the Center for Effective Philanthropy
Release Date:
10/26/2021
Arcus sought grantee feedback against four key performance goals.
Arcus Foundation is Funding Ape Conservation with Social Justice in Mind
Release Date:
10/15/2021
Conservation of endangered apes and their forest habitats cannot be achieved without careful consideration of the Indigenous Peoples and local communities who also live in and depend on these landscapes.
Arcus Foundation Supporting Community Visions of Safety and Justice for LGBTQ People
Release Date:
07/12/2021
Arcus Foundation Supporting Community Visions of Safety and Justice for LGBTQ People The latest grants in Arcus’ Social Justice Program focus on community initiatives to document and address violence and discrimination, protect...
Arcus Foundation Supports Efforts to Protect Forest Habitats Through Local and International Strategies
Release Date:
01/20/2021
Nonhuman apes are under threat everywhere they live.
Glo Ross Joins Arcus as U.S. Social Justice Program Officer
Release Date:
11/13/2020
The Arcus Foundation is pleased to announce the appointment of Glo Ross to the Social Justice Program as U.S. Social Justice Program Officer.
Alison White Joins Arcus’ Great Apes & Gibbons Program as Research, Learning and Evaluation Program Officer
Release Date:
07/23/2020
In her new role, Alison will focus on ensuring that learning from the field and broader society inform the foundation’s strategic conservation grantmaking, and that knowledge emerging from Arcus’ field engagement in turn informs the sector and...
Community-based Wildlife Carcass Surveillance Is Key for Early Detection of Ebola Virus, Study Supported By Arcus Foundation Finds
Release Date:
08/28/2019
Human Ebola epidemics, like the current outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, are known to start from a contact with wildlife infected with Ebola virus.
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2019
Stonewall 50: Lessons in Unerasing Underrepresented Histories
Tuesday, June 4, 2019 -
3:00pm to 5:00pm
This June marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, a key turning point in the LGBTQ civil rights movement. Despite the enormous advances of the movement, most people know almost nothing about LGBTQ history. Like those of other...
Chris Ransom Joins Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program as Program Officer
Release Date:
03/06/2019
The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today the appointment of Chris Ransom as Program Officer for Arcus’ Great Apes and Gibbons Program.
Arcus Foundation Funded Report Finds Infrastructure Development Likely To Be “Devastating” for Wildlife, Ecological Integrity
Release Date:
02/26/2019
Arcus Foundation and Cambridge University Press published a report that examines the interaction between conservation of apes and their habitats with infrastructure development, including ways to minimize and mitigate the impact of infrastructure...
Arcus Opens Call for Social Justice Grant Applications
Release Date:
12/04/2018
Arcus today publishes a Request for Concepts, the initial step in a streamlined process for organizations to apply for Arcus funding to support LGBTQ social justice work. The deadline for responses to this open call is January 22, 2019. Subsequent...
Arcus to Unveil Social Justice Request for Concepts on Dec. 3
Release Date:
11/05/2018
On December 3, Arcus will unveil a Request for Concepts, a streamlined application for international and U.S.-based organizations to submit a concept to support LGBTQ social justice work.
Arcus Grantee, Dr. Kristina Olson, Receives Prestigious Honor
Release Date:
10/23/2018
Dr. Kristina Olson of the Trans Youth Project, an Arcus grantee who was recently announced as a 2018 MacArthur Fellow. Dr. Olson is one of 25 leaders to receive the fellowship for her work to advance scientific understanding of gender and to shed...
Alisha Williams to Join Arcus as Program Officer of Social Justice Program
Release Date:
06/19/2018
The Arcus Foundation, a global foundation promoting respect for diversity among peoples and in nature, announced today the appointment of Alisha Williams (preferred gender pronouns: she/her, they/their) as a Program Officer of the Social Justice...