The Wyss Foundation is pleased to announce our continuing support for Victory Programs. Victory Programs is based in Boston, MA and helps individuals and families to overcome challenges like homelessness, substance use disorders, and/or health challenges like HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis C and mental illness.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is pleased to announce a recent grant to Year Up, a national organization that enables motivated young adults, ages 18-24, to move from minimum wage to meaningful careers in just one year.
Read MoreI first discovered the American conservation ethic sixty years ago. I was a student, working a summer job for the Colorado State Highway Department. On the weekends, I hiked and climbed and camped. And I found that – thanks to John Muir, David Brower, Mardy Murie, Paul Kroegel, and so many more - America’s wild places and public lands were open and free for all to enjoy.
Read MoreToday, the National Geographic Society, African Parks, the Wyss Foundation and the Republic of Benin announced a groundbreaking partnership to help secure and rehabilitate one of the last remaining wild landscapes in all of West Africa, Benin’s Pendjari National Park. Together, the four partners are initially committing more than US$23M to safeguard the park.
Read MoreIn 2016 the Wyss Foundation donated more than 16,000 acres (6,700 hectares) of forestland and alpine meadows in Romania’s Fagaras Mountains to Foundation Conservation Carpathia (FCC).
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is excited to announce a new $10 million investment in collaboration with the Moore Foundation and the Andes Amazon Fund to help protect the Amazon headwaters region (Colombia, Peru, Bolivia and Ecuador).
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation would like to congratulate the government of Argentina and the administration of President Mauricio Macri for securing full protection for Impenetrable National Park, which is an important part of the once vast Gran Chaco.
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