Alongside Wildlife Foundation

The Alongside Wildlife Foundation wants to know how wildlife populations use landscapes and we want to help the people learning to live alongside them. Then, we communicate science and conduct public outreach to encourage an appreciation for the wildlife that are here as well as the wildlife that may someday return.

We fund research, outreach, and conservation projects focusing on wildlife around the world (as well as organize some of our own). We fund workshops that help professionals learn about and communicate science. We direct one of the largest online-outreach campaigns focusing on wildlife and wildlife conservation. We collaborate with artists to communicate conservation messages. We recognize innovative science communicators with an annual award.

Eventually we want to grow large enough to start employing full-time scientists and science communicators as well as protect land that contributes to regional conservation goals.

We are small but dedicated group of professionals with a diversity of skills, from non-profit management to on-the-ground conservation. Further, we are supported by an expansive and growing grassroots network of small donors; their recurring donations allow us to support our ongoing efforts and the security to grow new initiatives.

We anticipate that at the end of our second year of existence, we will have already awarded over $20,000 to wildlife science and conservation projects around the world. Every day, we reach tens of thousands of people with a conservation message across our various online platforms. We have expanded a salamander project in Tennessee to conserve amphibians in entirely new areas. We have collaborated with artists to spread conservation messages. We have awarded our inaugural outreach award to highlight an up-and-coming science communicator.

Eventually we want to grow large enough to start employing full-time scientists and science communicators as well as protect land that contributes to regional conservation goals.

In 2019, we awarded $25,000 to fund research, outreach, and conservation projects focusing on wildlife. We prioritized funding projects that increased leadership and involvement of minorities and members of marginalized groups in wildlife conservation and selected efforts to reduce gender-based violence among conservation professionals in Vietnam, a project that increased the involvement of women in primate research in Benin, and helped establish a program to conserve sea turtles in Nigeria, converting poachers to protectors.

In 2020, we awarded nearly $18,000 to wildlife conservation projects around the world, nearly 61% of our total expenses, in addition to contributing to our land conservation fund. It was a challenging year but we continued our work on behalf of wild animals, people, and the landscapes we share.