In addition to large-scale, long-term initiatives and commitments, the Foundation’s Environmental Conservation program supports a limited number of grants for special projects. The Special Projects are evaluated based on the Foundation’s four filters, which ask if a project is important, makes a difference and has enduring impact, has measurable outcomes, and contributes to a portfolio effect.

Our Environmental Conservation Special Projects have addressed several areas including:

• Establishing conservation-friendly land use in unique and irreplaceable sites
• Developing new environmental science, including new knowledge, research tools and methods
• Supporting conservation-based changes to the economic, social or policy context within which durable environmental conservation can occur