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Linden Trust for Conservation

Overview

Principal Office:  USA

Key Words:  biodiversity conservation, environmental markets, conservation finance


The mission of the Linden Trust for Conservation is to help stabilize the Earth's biodiversity and ecological processes for the benefit of humanity. The Trust pursues this mission by making grants to support a few key initiatives.

The interests of the Linden Trust for Conservation include the following:
  • Market-based approaches to reduce greenhouse gases from deforestation and forest degradation;
  • Market-based approaches to control nutrient pollution in lakes, rivers, and coastal waters;
  • Permanent financing for large-scale land conservation;
  • Grants to selected institutions which are world leaders in ideas and actions for international conservation.
Grant Programs for Agriculture, Energy, Environment, and Natural Resources

1 -- Environmental Markets. This program funds a small number of initiatives that use market-based approaches to address environmental problems that have not responded well to traditional approaches. Current examples include grants to promote carbon markets and pollution markets.

2 -- Conservation Finance. Linden Trust works with partner organizations -- including trusts, corporations, and conservation NGOs -- to raise funds for ecologically important landscapes at the scale of countries and ecosystems.

3 -- Institutions. The Trust provides financial support to institutions whose missions align with those at Linden.

Most grant recipients are large and well-established nonprofit organizations for conservation and natural resources policy – based mainly in the USA, with international interests.

The main grants are US$500 thousand and more for multi-year periods.

About programs at Linden Trust for Conservation.


APPLICATION: The Trust does not accept unsolicited grant proposals.


Geographical Distribution of Grant Activities in Developing Countries

Worldwide

Note: Linden’s grant-making history to date indicates that Latin America is important in its international interests.
Comments

Linden’s annual target for grant making is US$2 million to US$4 million (all programs)

While the Linden Trust formerly funded other program areas, its focus is now exclusively on environment.

The Trust gives profiles of its recent grants.

“Contact Us” provides information for the Trust’s office in New York. 
Last Profile Review

May 2012

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