{"id":11007,"date":"2025-04-12T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/?p=11007"},"modified":"2025-04-12T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-12T12:45:34","slug":"rainforest-action-network-protect-an-acre-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/news\/rainforest-action-network-protect-an-acre-fund","title":{"rendered":"Rainforest Action Network: Protect-an-Acre Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Protect-an-Acre Fund makes small grants to protect forests, promote local self-sufficiency, and strengthen the rights and livelihoods of forest communities. Grants are to local forest communities, indigenous federations, and NGOs active in rainforest zones worldwide. Grants generally do not exceed US$5 thousand. Applications can be submitted at any time.\u00a0Protect an Acre<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

RAN established Protect-an-Acre (PAA) in 1993 to protect the world\u2019s forests and support the rights of their inhabitants through small grants<\/a> to traditionally under-funded organizations and communities in forest regions. PAA is a grassroots alternative to \u201cbuy-an-acre\u201d programs that seek to provide rainforest protection by buying tracts of land, but which often fail to address the priorities or rights of local Indigenous and forest communities<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Please read below about the criteria which qualifies requests for funding<\/a>.<\/p>\n

To inquire regarding the possibility of funding for your organization and to request an online version of the application, please contact\u00a0paa@ran.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Top priority is given to:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Projects emphasizing grassroots organizing, education, training and capacity building<\/a> to develop skills, increase awareness and\/or build alliances towards protection of forests and increased community control over local resources<\/p>\n

2. Projects emphasizing community-driven, strategic use of non-violent direct action that supports local<\/a> resistance to destructive development activities such as logging, oil extraction, dam construction and the expansion of monoculture plantations.<\/p>\n

3. Projects supporting Indigenous communities securing or maintaining legal land title recognition (demarcation of territory, GPS mapping, resource inventories and management plans<\/a>, meetings with neighboring communities, etc.)<\/p>\n

Also supported:<\/strong><\/p>\n

4. Environmentally and socially sound sustainable<\/a> economic alternative initiatives.<\/p>\n

5. Travel and other opportunities that amplify community voices in regional, national and international forums and provide access<\/a> to decision makers.<\/p>\n

6. Field studies and original research<\/a> used to hold companies accountable for their on-the-ground activities<\/p>\n

7. Seed money for emerging grassroots organizations<\/p>\n

Applications are evaluated on the following criteria:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. Applicant\u2019s capacity to carry out proposed activities.<\/p>\n

2. Project strategy and urgency\/includes well-defined objectives and planned<\/a> activities.<\/p>\n

3. Scale and scope of community participation, including when applicable that the community where the project is centered<\/a> and\/or that will be impacted by the initiative be engaged in the decision-making process related to the activities.<\/p>\n

4. Ecological\/cultural significance of forest\/local environment.<\/p>\n

5. Project honors and upholds diversity and equity.<\/p>\n

6. Activities would be significantly enhanced by a small grant\/applicant\u2019s annual budget (under $150,000 is prioritized), overall access to resources and previous funding from RAN.<\/p>\n

Although grants are made in all regions and unsolicited proposals are welcome<\/a>, geographic priority areas are Southeast Asia and South and North America (Native American\/First Nations applications are prioritized in the U.S. and Canada). Applicants from other regions are encouraged to contact paa@ran.org prior to submitting an application to inquire regarding the possibility of funding.<\/p>\n

PAA does not support individual, governmental, or exclusively academic<\/a> projects. Grants generally do not exceed $5,000. Certain components of projects with larger budgets can be funded<\/a> when those components significantly contribute to the project\u2019s final outcome.<\/p>\n

Only completed applications will be considered. Applicants will be informed<\/a> within 4 weeks if their application has been short-listed or declined. The final decision on short-listed projects can take a couple of weeks longer, depending on how quickly references come back and how long it takes to resolve any inquiries regarding the application. If the application is urgent please make this clear when it is submitted.<\/p>\n

To inquire regarding the possibility of funding for your organization and to request an online version of the application, please contact\u00a0paa@ran.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For a Word version of the Protect-an-Acre application, please contact paa@ran.org. Please note that we also have the application available<\/a> in the following languages that can be provided upon request: Bahasa Indonesia, Spanish and Portuguese. Completed applications can be returned via email to paa@ran.org or mailed to:<\/p>\n

Rainforest Action Network
\nc\/o Protect-an-Acre
\n425 Bush Street, Suite 300
\nSan Francisco, CA 94108<\/p>\n

Rainforest Action Network campaigns for the forests, their inhabitants and the natural systems that sustain life by transforming the global<\/a> marketplace through education, grassroots organizing and non-violent direct action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Protect-an-Acre Fund makes small grants to protect forests, promote local self-sufficiency, and strengthen the rights and livelihoods of forest communities. Grants are to local forest communities, indigenous federations, and NGOs active in rainforest zones worldwide. Grants generally do not exceed US$5 thousand. Applications can be submitted at any time.\u00a0Protect an Acre RAN established Protect-an-Acre […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11007"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11012,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11007\/revisions\/11012"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cfwt.sua.ac.tz\/ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}