Our Shared Seas’ new overview of funding for marine area-based conservation highlights dynamics we’ve seen across environmental philanthropy, including the heightened role of regrantors and billionaires.
Read MoreEric and Wendy Schmidt’s ocean science outfit has been helping scientists study the sea since 2009. The organization recently launched an advanced new science vessel, and it's free to scientists.
Read MoreGlobal philanthropic giving to ocean conservation issues doubled in the past decade, but still falls woefully short of what’s needed. A new report funded by the Packard Foundation takes a deep dive into the state of marine funding.
Read MoreOcean and freshwater funders are focusing on climate change, the social dimensions of water ecosystems and collaborative approaches. Fundraisers have taken heart, but are calling for more resources as crises mount.
Read MoreEven as the pandemic briefly curtailed carbon emissions, it only accelerated the threat that plastic waste poses to the planet. Here’s how several philanthropic funders are confronting a global problem.
Read MoreA new alliance of nonprofits and funders wants to conserve an area of the world’s oceans totaling the size of South America over the next five years. It’s the latest in a series of philanthropic efforts to expand ocean conservation.
Read MoreThe charitable venture of the two richest men in China and an ocean exploration nonprofit backed by Ray Dalio just formed a new partnership. It could presage far greater funding to come from China’s philanthropists.
Read MoreMargaret A. Cargill Philanthropies keeps a low profile, but it’s one of the key U.S. foundations racing to defend endangered marine ecosystems worldwide—including the vast and biologically diverse seas of Indonesia.
Read MoreAs experts across sectors scramble to conserve ocean ecosystems and fish populations, more nations and organizations are using marine spatial planning. The Waitt Foundation is a leading supporter of this critical work.
Read MoreThe world’s oceans and the myriad communities that depend on them face devastating harm from climate change, overfishing and pollution. Here’s an inside look at how Bloomberg Philanthropies is responding.
Read MoreThe environment is among the many areas where tech philanthropists have emerged as a greater force in recent years, bankrolling existing green groups, but also creating some new organizations. Who’s doing what?
Read MoreAn estimated 8 million tons of plastic enter the ocean each year, threatening vital marine ecosystems, and most of it comes from rivers. Can a new partnership between the Benioff Ocean Initiative and Coca-Cola “turn off the tap” of river plastic?
Read MoreSalesforce founder Marc Benioff and his wife Lynne are among a growing number of philanthropists focused on ocean health. Like other Silicon Valley givers in this space, they see a role for tech—most recently getting behind an Ocean Solutions Accelerator.
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