• $300,000

  2016 (Duration 2 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — This grant inaugurates a new partnership between two recognized leaders in biodiversity research and conservation. The Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center translates scientific knowledge into conservation action, and since 1999 has helped protect 23 million acres of wilderness in the tropical Andes. Dr. Walter Jetz, director of Yale University’s Program in Spatial Biodiversity, is the leading force behind one of the world's leading online platforms for biodiversity informatics (Map of Life). Together, the Field Museum and Yale are empowering the park services and wildlife agencies of Peru, Ecuador, and Colombia to improve conservation actions by harnessing better information about biodiversity. The online dashboards they are developing will provide park managers with demand-driven, actionable biodiversity information and foster more accurate and efficient reporting of information to the global Convention on Biological Diversity and the public.

• $250,000

  2015 (Duration 3 years)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center integrates biological inventory and cultural preservation in the tropical Andes through an “assets-based conservation” process. Resulting Quality of Life Plans use cultural values, local knowledge and social and organizational structures to establish community conservation areas and heighten the chance that traditional livelihoods will survive outside pressures. This project magnifies previous successes by training a broad base of stakeholders to use the “asset-based conservation” approach independently with indigenous and traditional communities across the Peruvian Amazon.

• $45,000

  2014 (Inactive Grant)

  Arts & Culture in Chicago

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — In support of an artistic exchange with the Phillippines. Drawing on the Field's collection, twelve new works of visual art will be created and shared with audiences in both communities.

• $500,000

  2013 (Duration 5 years)

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Field Museum is one of Chicago’s world class institutions. It is both an educational institution with an active exhibition and public education program and an academic institution with more than 100 years of experience in conducting research and fieldwork. The Field Museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions occupy about 300,000 square feet. Its collection contains over 25 million biological and anthropological objects. More than 1.3 million people visit the Museum annually, including 400,000 students and 5,000 teachers. The exhibitions and educational programs are informed by research from the Museum’s 28 tenured scientists and others who represent a broad range of disciplines.

• $150,000

  2012 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — The Environment, Culture, and Conservation Program of the Field Museum of Chicago integrates biological inventory and cultural preservation objectives in the Tropical Andes through an “assets-based conservation” process. The project will apply this approach in indigenous territories strategically located near Ampiyacu-Apayacu and Sierra de Divisor conservation landscapes in Northeastern Peru. Quality of Life plans will use cultural values, local knowledge and social and organizational structures to establish community conserved areas and heighten the chance that traditional livelihoods will survive outside pressures.

• $350,000

  2010 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To involve local communities in conserving critical habitats that lack official protection and to build Malagasy capacity for conservation biology (over three years).

• $350,000

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To define the effects of climate change on the genetic diversity of birds and small mammals in the Albertine Rift and analyze how these changes relate to the spread of disease-carrying parasites from wildlife to humans (over three years).

• $400,000

  2009 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To assess impacts of climate change on Madagascar's endemic biota (over three years).

• $231,000

  2008 (Inactive Grant)

  Conservation & Sustainable Development

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To strengthen indigenous organizations in the Andean foothills and Amazon lowlands of Peru (over three years).

• $308,000

  2008 (Inactive Grant)

  Digital Media & Learning

  CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — To use virtual worlds to build scientific literacy and knowledge of sustainable development.

The MacArthur Foundation awarded Field Museum $2,884,000 between 1978 and 2017.