Foundation News

>The New England Biolabs Foundation ( NEBF ) is a private independent foundation whose mission is to foster community-based conservation of landscapes and seascapes and the bio-cultural diversity found in these places. Established in 1982 by the founder of New England Biolabs, Inc., the Foundation supports grassroots organizations and NGOs in selected countries of Central America, South America and West Africa, as well as locally (the North Shore of Massachusetts).

Note: New guidelines for letters of inquiry have been posted.

Please bear in mind that NEBF is a small foundation and each year we receive many more applications for support than we can fund. The state of the global economy has raised many challenges for grassroots conservation organizations seeking support for their work. At the same time it has had an impact on the resources that foundations such as ours have available for grant-making.

While our priority is to support projects that have received prior funding, we will continue to consider new applicants from our priority regions whose projects meet our funding guidlines.

We encourage you to review carefully our Funding Priorities and Mission Statement in approaching the Foundation for support. The first step in the process is to send a letter of inquiry according to the format posted at NEBF Application Guidelines (note that as of this year NEBF will no longer be able to consider an application that has not been preseded by an inquiry). If your inquiry is accepted you will be invited to prepare a full proposal for consideration by the NEBF board during one of its semi-annual grant meetings. Please monitor this web-site for further updates throughout the year.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Jessica Brown, Executive Director

All inquiries should be sent to the attention of Susan Foster, Assistant Director, at fosters@nebf.org