People sometimes ask us if we have funds to support their work. Short answer: No. Nor are we experts in the finding of financial support. So it was good to see a report at Crops for the Future about Terra Viva Grants. This web site uses a combination of old technology — people — and new technology — the internet — to assemble details on all sorts of entities that fund projects on what they call “the green sector”.
Not being in the market for support (well, not of that sort) I’m not really able to judge how well Terra Viva Grants does the job it sets out to do. I had a quick search for a topic that interests me, and turned up six possible grant-makers; although there is clearly a lot more to getting funded than finding a funder, that’s clearly a good start. There have been similar efforts in the past, and many seem to have fallen by the wayside. Something of this sort is desperately needed, so we can only wish Terra Viva Grants the best of luck.