The Foundation provides a variety of grants to support individual research, collaborative projects, conferences and training fellowships. The Wenner-Gren Foundation has three major goals: to support significant and innovative anthropological research into humanity’s biological and cultural origins, development, and variation; to foster the international community of research scholars in anthropology; and to provide leadership at the forefronts of the discipline.
The Conservation Leadership Award is available to CLP project teams that have received both Future Conservationist Awards and Conservation Follow-Up awards. Grants are up to $40,000, with coaching support, to undertake complex conservation projects that connect previous work and typically focus on creating enduring systems to ensure conservation outcomes in the long-term, for example creating a new, self-supporting NGO. Award winners should be high potential early to mid-career conservationists, who through training and experience are now able to build the capacity of others.