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Conservation and Research Foundation


Overview

Principal Office: USA

Key Words:   energy, natural resources, population growth, environmental education

Website: Link

The Conservation and Research Foundation (CRF) provides seed grants to promote the conservation of energy and natural resources, and to limit population growth. Grants are made for activities and projects in the USA and developing countries.

CRF supports research in the biodiversity of plant and animal species, and their terrestrial and aquatic habitats. It also aims to deepen scientific understanding of the relationship between people and the environment through environmental education and community action.
Grant Programs for Agriculture, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources

Environmental Education and Research. CRF makes grants for institutional support and for education and research in the following thematic areas:
  • Limiting population growth;
  • Biodiversity protection;
  • Law and the environment;
  • Agriculture conservation; and
  • Pollution and energy solutions.
The Foundation also funds general ecological research and environmental education that does not fit into the preceding categories.

About the program. -- Link

Most grants are to small nonprofit conservation organizations, research institutes, and environmental education programs in the USA that have an international scope. The Foundation also makes some grants to conservation organizations based in developing countries.

Grants range from US$500 to US$5 thousand.

APPLICATION:  Grant seekers send an initial short letter of inquiry (LOI) by postal mail or email. LOIs can be sent at any time, and they are reviewed throughout the year.

The Foundation invites full proposals from selected applicants. Full proposals are due by the calendar date posted on CRF’s website.

Grants do not support graduate or undergraduate research, or institutional overhead.

About how to apply. – Link

Geographical Distribution of Grant Activities in Developing Countries

Worldwide
Comments

Grant seekers should study the Foundation’s annual reports as a guide to the kinds of projects it supports. In year 2010-2011, the Foundation funded 18 new and continuing projects for US$38 thousand. – Link

The Foundation states its interest to work with projects not normally funded through conventional sources. It particularly aims to seed initiatives that may lead to new collaboration and larger investments. In its more than 50 years of history, the CRF has successfully supported a number of today’s important conservation institutions when they were in their formative stages.
Last Profile Review

January 2012

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