The American Wildlife Conservation Foundation (AWCF) provides grants supporting research and public education towards enhancing scientific wildlife management and conservation of wild habitats in North America with an emphasis on New York State. The Foundation's goal is to insure that wild animals and the ecosystems sustaining them will thrive for the long term conserved for the enjoyment of present and future generations. The American Wildlife Conservation Foundation is a multi-national foundation operating throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico. As such, grants are only available for proposals applied to the North American Continent. The Foundation’s mission is to aid in discovery, understanding and dissemination of information that supports scientific fish and wildlife management through research, education and habitat conservation. The AWCF is a small Foundation and we select only five or six proposals each year. We allocate between $2,000 and $6,000 for individual proposals selected for funding, so competition is intense.
Funding priority is given to proposals from universities, government agencies and other non-profit institutions/organizations which focus on fish/wildlife species-habitat relationships, human-wildlife interaction or conservation education projects.
Grant money shall only be used for: direct stipend to the field researcher, supplies, reasonable equipment, travel and lodging, if directly related to the research. We do not allow overhead or indirect costs to be charged by the sponsoring institution nor do we allow funds to partially pay for the salary of a supervisor or oversight staff.