Since 2018, when Hansjörg Wyss launched the Wyss Campaign for Nature, the Wyss Foundation has spent and committed $21.6 million USD to support organizations across Australia working to create parks and private protected areas. These efforts have already helped to protect almost 8.5 million acres of land throughout the nation – an area that is over half the size of the Australian state of Tasmania.
Read MoreCasey Bage ’23 and Glenda Valdez ’23 have been named as the 2022 Wyss Scholars at Lewis & Clark Law School. The Wyss Scholars Program, funded by the Wyss Foundation, seeks to identify and support a new generation of leaders focused on land conservation issues.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is proud to announce a 1,750,000 CFH (Swiss Francs) grant to support Campus SLB. Campus SLB improves treatment options and patient quality of life through its patient-centered research projects and clinical trials studies.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is excited to announce a grant of $72,500,000 to the Fondation Beyeler in order to support the expansion of the existing art museum. The Beyeler Museum, founded in 1997 by Swiss collectors and philanthropists Ernst and Hildy Beyeler, is Switzerland’s most visited art museum and regarded as one of the finest internationally.
Read MoreOn Wednesday, a coalition of nine foundations said they would collectively spend $5 billion by 2030 to protect at least 30% of the planet’s land and sea, known as 30x30.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation and eight other philanthropic organizations pledged Wednesday to give $5 billion by 2030 to protect biodiversity around the planet, the largest-ever private gift for conservation.
Read MoreA coalition of nine charitable groups announced today that they will jointly commit $5 billion toward an aggressive pledge that aims to conserve 30% of the world’s lands and waters by 2030.
Read MorePledge increases Wyss’s total nature commitment to $1.5 billion before 2030 to accelerate the pace of conservation and protect 30 percent of the Earth’s surface by decade’s end.
Read MoreThe Wyss Foundation is pleased to announce a $500,000 grant to the Resources Legacy Fund to support organizations advancing the conservation priorities of historically marginalized communities and extend nature’s benefits to every American.
Read MoreFour University of Montana graduate students have been named Wyss Scholars for Conservation for the American West. This prestigious program provides financial support to UM graduate students who are committed to careers in Western land conservation through a federal or state land management agency or at a nonprofit in the region.
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