Community Land Rights and Conservation Finance Initiative (CLARIFI)
Funding Amount
$100,000 - $1,000,000 (primary grants); $5,000,000 - $50,000,000 (pass-through mechanism)
Deadline
Deadline not published
Grant Type
Foundation
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Other requirements
- Currently focusing on projects in the Congo Basin and the Tropical Andes
- Intended for lower to middle income countries globally
Overview
A global regranting mechanism launched in January 2022, CLARIFI aims to advance justice, climate, conservation, and development goals in a wide range of lower to middle income countries. It functions both as a direct grant provider and as a pass-through financial mechanism for larger grants.
Award Amounts:
- Direct grants: $100,000 to $1 million
- Pass-through grants (for larger initiatives): $5 million to $50 million
Current Status: Piloting phase
Geographic Focus:
- Currently focusing on projects in the Congo Basin and the Tropical Andes
- Intended for lower to middle income countries globally
Target Beneficiaries:
- Indigenous Peoples
- Local communities
- Afro-descendant Peoples
- Rightsholders' organizations
Focus Areas:
- Justice advancement
- Climate action
- Conservation
- Development goals
- Strengthening communities' territorial governance and management
- Advancing gender justice
- Fighting criminalization and rollback of rights
- Establishing an enabling legal environment for securing rights
Contact Information:
- United States: 2445 M Street, NW, Suite 520, Washington, DC 20037
- Phone: +1 202 470 3900
- Email: [email protected]
- Canada: 401-417 Rue Saint-Pierre, Montréal, QC H2Y 2M4
What Rights and Resources Institute Inc actually gave
Source: IRS Form 990, 2024
- Grants in 2024
- 2
- Total given
- $478K
- Median grant
- $239K
- Range
- $11K–$466K
- By dollars: New York 98%, District of Columbia 2%. Top recipient cities: Brooklyn, NY; Washington, DC.
Example grants
Rainforest Foundation US · Brooklyn, NY
Strengthening governance of the global alliance of territoirial communities
$466K
Environmental Law Institute · Washington, DC
Research
$11K
Focus Areas & Funding Uses
Fields of Work
- Environmental conservation
- Capacity building
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