Prestigious Foundation Awards Major Grant to Savingspecies

Prestigious Foundation Awards Major Grant to SavingSpecies

1888 Press Release - The Chicago-based Libra Foundation grant will support essential costs to help expand conservation organization's reach and impact.

Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC - Dr. Stuart Pimm, founder and President of SavingSpecies, announced today that the Libra Foundation has been awarded a $25,000 grant to the conservation non-profit. The foundation awarded the grant to help SavingSpecies build capacity in its conservation and restoration work.

The capacity-building grant will support staff time and operation costs to build on SavingSpecies' efforts to date with its website, social media, grant writing, public outreach and research. Through grassroots and online engagement, SavingSpecies has raised public awareness-and hundreds of thousands of dollars-to fund habitat restoration of critically at-risk fragmented, degraded tropical forests in Brazil, Madagascar, and Colombia.

Focusing its attention on "supporting innovative and effective work," the Libra Foundation is "committed to enhancing the human rights movement and broadening it to include… environmental sustainability."

Dr. Pimm said: "I am just thrilled that SavingSpecies has been awarded this generous grant, and honored to have received the Libra Foundation's confidence in our innovative and fiscally-efficient approach to highly-targeted conservation." Dr. Pimm emphasized that all donations go to conservation projects, unless otherwise specified by the donor. "As I take personal pride in ensuring that every dime SavingSpecies raises for our projects goes directly toward land purchases and restoration, this grant is particularly important," he said.

SavingSpecies identifies degraded agricultural land and restores it to connect forest fragments, protecting the world's most endangered species. The SavingSpecies Science Advisory Board provides technical and financial support to carefully selected conservation...