About the Group
The number one problem in nature conservation is the need for more money or access to funding. This group aims to help all WILDLABS community members with funding and financing their projects by creating a space to learn about different funding opportunities, income models and business models, improve grant applications, discover venture capital investment projects, find collaborators for funding, finance and business opportunities, and more.
What the Group Offers
The group offers a space to:
- Ask questions and discuss finding and applying for Funding and Finance
- Brainstorm about Funding and Finance wishlists for types of instruments, eligibility criteria, thematic and geographic priorities
- Publish and be alerted to opportunities
- Publish support resources like grant-writing courses, grant-finding databases, consultant-influencers blogs/Medium/LinkedIn, business development, and project planning courses
- Review and comment on opportunities
- Ask for and provide peer feedback on draft applications
- Learn about funding and finance providers’ views and practices
- Learn about business models for companies and income models for NGOs
- Find collaborators or mentors
- Learn about and attend virtual series and events with live discussions relating to funding and finance information and training
- Identify and facilitate opportunities where WILDLABS community members can collaborate on project applications to increase likelihood of success and impact
- Share fundraising collaboration opportunities, events and resources
- Consultation meetings to discuss collaboration plans, aims or ideas, income and business models
Interested in funding opportunities? Check out the WILDLABS resources page and filter for “Funding Opportunity.”
Resources
Header image credit: Jitu Mondal
Group curators
- @Frank_van_der_Most
- | He, him
RubberBootsData
Field data app developer, with an interest in funding and finance





- 54 Resources
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- @HRees
- | Him/His
WILDLABS & Fauna & Flora
WILDLABS - Programme Development Manager, keen interest in bats, hyenas and tech!





- 13 Resources
- 3 Discussions
- 6 Groups
- @Aurel
- | She/Her
Looking to reconcile biodiversity conservation and finance.

- 0 Resources
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- 10 Groups
- @Gabonia
- | He/him
GABriel ONIfade A. (GABONIA / mrGab), is an educator, a CS and AI advocate, a Data Engineer, an AI Engineer, an Entrepreneur, and curriculum developer based in Brooklyn, New York (NYC DOE District 19). With a background in Systems Engineering, Gabriel specializes in CS & AI Edu.
- 1 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 4 Groups
- @SimoneW-TRU-DOE
- | She/her/hers
Research Officer with the Cayman Islands Department of Environment, Terrestrial Resources Unit. Her studies include tropical ecology, migratory birds, shorebird lifecycles, bats, reptiles, invasive species, biosecurity, wildlife health & marine biology.

- 0 Resources
- 1 Discussions
- 6 Groups
- @Mandatum
- | He/His
Mandatum: Unlocking hundreds of billions annually to protect nature and fight climate change at no cost.
- 0 Resources
- 5 Discussions
- 2 Groups
Soil science, droughts effect of poverty, human rights advocate, wage equality in Europe, Drones in Digital Education



- 3 Resources
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- 19 Groups
- @annavallery
- | she/her
Seabird biologist experienced in research and applied conservation. Dedicated to conducting and using innovative research to inform conservation decisions.

- 0 Resources
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- 5 Groups
- @Freaklabs
- | He/Him
Freaklabs
I'm an engineer and product designer working on wildlife conservation technology.



- 0 Resources
- 302 Discussions
- 20 Groups
- @ppalencia
- | Dr
I am Pablo Palencia, a postdoctoral researcher at Biodiversity Research Institute (IMIB). I am interested on develop and fine-tuning cutting-edge tools for wildlife management and conservation, wit a special mention of camera trapping ;)
- 0 Resources
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- 7 Groups
I'm a young conservationist from Ghana with over 7 years experience in Pangolin Conservation. My focus in Conservation is the human dimension of conservation. I am currently the manager for the Onepone Endangered Species Refuge.
- 0 Resources
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- 8 Groups
- @Lucille
- | She/Her
La Trobe University
Marine bioacoustician and elasmobranch scientist
- 1 Resources
- 9 Discussions
- 8 Groups
- @KMucha
- | She/Her/Hers
Species360
Senior Product Owner of ZIMS for Studbooks and the SCTI Toolkit at Species360

- 0 Resources
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- 5 Groups
- @ppebs
- | she/her
Primatologist who studies human-primate coexistence and self-medicative behavior in non-human primates
- 0 Resources
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- 7 Groups
- 0 Resources
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I very much agree. It is a shame that companies/organisations are willing to spend so much to take from the earth and so little to give back. In the example I come from, we are a... |
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Community Base, Funding and Finance | 1 week ago | |
Hej all, I updated my question to include discussion about the tariffs as well. |
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Community Base, Funding and Finance | 3 weeks 2 days ago | |
I have posted about this in a different group, but I love boosting the impact of my communication through use of visuals. Free graphics relating to conservation technology... |
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Geospatial, Climate Change, Community Base, Connectivity, Funding and Finance, Open Source Solutions | 3 weeks 3 days ago | |
Great dear Travis,This is a great news and an opportunity to me and my local bee keepers. It really sounds very helpful.Here is my contacts:Email: muganyizi@pales.or.tz ... |
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Climate Change, Conservation Tech Training and Education, East Africa Community, Funding and Finance, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Wildlife Crime | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Reposting the original post from the GOSH Community:Cool news from the mothbox team! We still don’t have any funding, but our next big goal... |
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Open Source Solutions, Emerging Tech, Funding and Finance | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
Hi Ryan, hmm, I had no idea there was a microphone named that. I thought about how it’s used to lure birds for netting, and I like Greek Mythology. I thought it was a perfect fit... |
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Acoustics, Emerging Tech, Funding and Finance, Protected Area Management Tools, Software Development | 1 month 2 weeks ago | |
All sound, would be nice if there were only 5, though! |
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AI for Conservation, Citizen Science, Data management and processing tools, Emerging Tech, Ethics of Conservation Tech, Funding and Finance, Geospatial, Open Source Solutions, Software Development | 1 month 4 weeks ago | |
It's great to see so much interest in presenting at this webinar. We have also received interest through direct messages and meetings that we've happened to have had. Thank you... |
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Open Source Solutions, Community Base, Funding and Finance | 2 months 2 weeks ago | |
Hi Kim, Thank you so much for taking the time to share your thoughts. I understand your desire for concrete evidence, and that's precisely what we're working towards.... |
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Funding and Finance | 3 months ago | |
Love it! I have a few ideas. |
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Conservation Tech Training and Education, Funding and Finance, Human-Wildlife Conflict | 3 months 1 week ago | |
Hi all,this may be a bit on the fringes of the WildLabs conservation tech but Mossy Earth is opening an innovation grant supporting tests... |
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Funding and Finance | 4 months ago | |
Thank you for elaborating Vance. I think I know of the revolving loan funds as micro credit systems.Interesting point, about the time it takes to set up and build trust. But I... |
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Funding and Finance | 5 months 3 weeks ago |