News published: 24 August 2023

The Global Botanic Garden Fund drives plant conservation, especially in gardens in areas of high biodiversity by disbursing small grants every year. The fund is open to BGCI Member institutions and preference is given to botanic gardens in developing countries and biodiversity hotspots.

See the impact of previous projects by going to BGCI Grants below.

2023 Grant Recipients

In May 2023, BGCI opened 4 different grants each with varying criteria:

• BGCI Member Grants
• Minnesota Landscape Arboretum Grants (MLA)
• ArbNet Partnership Programme Grants (ArbNet)
• Global Conservation Consortia Grants (GCC)

We received a total of 95 applications for the Global Botanic Garden Fund. The projects are varied from seed collecting, to education, to improving collection management in gardens.

Congratulations to the successful recipients; BGCI and partner organisations will be distributing 35 grants, worth $87,400, to 35 institutions, across 24 different countries. 

Funding for the Global Botanic Garden Fund was made possible in 2023 by contributions from:

• ArbNet (The Morton Arboretum)
• BGCI-US
• The Botanist Foundation
• The Gibson Charitable Trust
• Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
• San Diego Botanical Garden
• United States National Arboretum
• and crowd-sourced funding through the 2022 Holiday Challenge.

The map below shows total number of grants disbursed in 2023 (including grants awarded earlier in the year for GGI-Awards and Forest Service Rare Plant Partnerships). Hover over the different points to discover the organisations and the projects awarded.

Call for Support

BGCI was extremely impressed by the applications submitted to the Global Botanic Garden Fund. It is a testament to the quality of applications and the clear need for continued, additional support to the botanic garden community.

BGCI will continue to look for additional funding for the Global Botanic Garden Fund, to support global goals in plant conservation.

BGCI thanks those already supporting the Global Botanic Garden Fund and are pleased to share the impact of their contributions.