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Proposal Guidelines

Please carefully read our guidelines below. In an effort to eliminate excessive paper use and unnecessary postage costs, we are accepting electronic submissions only -- please see below for detailed instructions. Please submit your proposal and related documents as a SINGLE pdf file. The file may not exceed 10 MB.

To apply you must download our required checklist and cover sheet [<.pdf> / < fillable.doc>] complete them and send with your proposal.

What we fund:

The Fund for Wild Nature (Fund) provides money for North American campaigns to save and restore native species and wild ecosystems, including actions to defend wilderness and biological diversity. If your project is not clearly and directly connected to these priorities, please clearly explain the link. We do not fund projects outside Canada or the U.S.A.
We fund advocacy, litigation, public policy work, development of citizen science, and similar endeavors. We do not fund basic scientific research, private land acquisition, individual action or study, salaries, or conferences. Although we commend the work of wildlife sanctuaries and rehabilitation facilities, these are beyond the scope of our mission and for that reason we do not fund such organizations. We will only fund media projects that have a clear strategic value and a concrete plan for dissemination of the final product.

(View recent annual reports here for amounts awarded and brief project descriptions.)

The Fund supports biocentric goals that are premised on effective and intelligible strategies. We give special attention to ecological issues not currently receiving sufficient public attention and funding. We seek proposals with visionary and yet realistic goals to create tangible change. All proposals must be highly cost effective.

We rarely fund proposals from organizations with annual budgets greater than $250,000 U.S.. Proposals are reviewed by individuals who are very familiar with a wide range of conservation issues, so please be concise in your summary of the problem at hand, and focus on what the organization plans to do and why you think your strategy will be successful.

We will only consider one proposal per year per grantee. In the event you apply for a new grant shortly before the one year anniversary of your previous grant, you must submit your final report early so that the board may evaluate the previous project. Otherwise, your new proposal will be deferred until the final report is filed.

Submit one, single pdf file of your proposal and related documents by the submission deadline to the Fund at fwn@fundwildnature[dot]org. All documents will be distributed electronically to the board members. We will respond to any problems or questions immediately. The Fund makes granting decisions three times per year. If you have further questions, please contact us via email at: fwn@fundwildnature[dot]org.

Go here to see the checklist and application.