ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Dedicated to the Idea That People Can Live in Harmony

ANNUAL REPORT 2018 Dedicated to the idea that people can live in harmony

2 Letter from Jon Stryker with one another and 3 Letter from Annette Lanjouw & Jason McGill the natural world LGBTQ SOCIAL JUSTICE 8 Challenges Mount Against U.S. Rollback on Trans and Immigrant Rights 10 “I Want the State to Recognize Who I Am” 12 LGBT Africans Push for Acceptance 14 2018 Social Justice Program Grants

GREAT APES & GIBBONS 22 Mountain Gorilla Conservation at a Crossroads 24 Borneo Indigenous Leader Boosts Security for Orangutans and Neighbors 26 Infrastructure Projects Pose Risks for Guinea’s Chimps 28 2018 Great Apes & Gibbons Program Grants

30 Financials 32 Board & Staff arcuslink/mission Dear Friends, we are part. There is a tremendous amount of promise in the Dear Friends, These pressures interact with and reinforce each other even as As we were finalizing this report, World Pride 2019 was getting integration of social justice, and environmental justice, and more On behalf of everyone at Arcus, we are pleased to share with you they weave themselves through both our streams of work. They under way in New York. We gathered Arcus staff, Board, and a people are beginning to talk about it. our 2018 Annual Report. also negatively affect the safety, opportunity, and inclusion of many few friends to celebrate and reflect upon the 50th anniversary of other marginalized populations, including women and girls, the The voices of human rights and environmental justice have risen At this writing, some of our team members are headed to separate the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, a seminal poor, immigrants, and others. well above a whisper—urging, warning, and even shouting, some destinations in Africa to engage with Arcus partners in the raising of voices in protest considered by many the beginning of the might say. The newly elected president of Mexico pronounced programs and work that we lead respectively for the Foundation. The Social Justice and Great Apes & Gibbons Programs each LGBTQ movement. that his country must extend full rights to its LGBTQ citizens and Now in our third year as co-executive directors, we continue to work on several interconnected fronts to build resilience and Oddly enough, what came to my mind were whispers. similarly, over the past two years, the Vatican and the United marvel at the many ways in which our programs converge, not resources for the movement to respond: Nations have joined their voices with those of conservationists— only geographically but also in the factors and threats that weigh n Offering multiyear, general operating support to as many long- I was thinking about where we stand in the journey we are on— clearly amid controversy. on our prospects for success in advancing LGBTQ rights and ape term grantees as we can. adding up victories and subtracting setbacks in a strange sort of conservation. A constantly changing landscape is the greatest n Providing recurring opportunities for grantees to work together math—and my mind went back about 20 years to conversations in Whether the question is which rights should be extended to challenge that we share; even as we and our partners pursue on mid- and long-term coordination. public places in Kalamazoo, Michigan, where I often met with Arcus’ LGBTQ people or how to balance human economic needs with well-formulated strategies, shape-shifting threats routinely require n Building partnerships with other funders and grantees to focus first executive director to plot the project that would eventually conservation of non-human animals and the environment, these adaptive refinements to our programmatic responses: on the role funders can play in movement building, capacity become the Foundation. Whenever we said the words gay or great, public conversations are promising—if painful—signs that n The declaration by the Republic of China that it will pursue its building, and power building. lesbian, we felt it necessary to whisper. We had so thoroughly together, we are transcending whispers and our messages are “Belt and Road” initiative, in alignment with sustainability goals. n Defining with grantees meaningful indicators and related data internalized the idea that it was controversial and even dangerous being heard. History tells us these debates can be gateways to The initiative will link country markets and energy reserves from that we can use to measure our success in advancing near- and to speak those words in that time and place. Later, after adding the change—toward the moment when we all see ourselves as part of the Arctic to the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic Oceans through long-term strategies and to determine the need for changes to ape conservation work, we would discover that it can be just as nature and make the choice to love and preserve it and ourselves 7,000 infrastructure and extractive industry projects via roads, those strategies. controversial or dangerous to speak about conservation in some because the fact is that diversity and biodiversity are all that there railways, and ports funded, in part, by China. Many of the spaces and places. is. The initiators of many of these conversations are partners or You will see these approaches and our dual focus on populations grantees of Arcus, like the inspiring actors featured in this report. projects are in economically stressed countries and pose threats and individuals evident in the stories shared in this report. It can be confusing to assess what has changed for the better since They give me hope and inspire me to use my own voice and to both non-human animals and to the poorest among local then because each day brings a mix of conflicting and sometimes The dynamic nature of our movements and work requires a long- resources to amplify those of others until we one day realize our human populations. surprising signs. We have just witnessed the legalization of same- n term commitment to learning. We take that commitment seriously, dreams of justice, peace, respect, and harmony. A pattern of authoritarian governments in resource-strapped sex marriages in Taiwan and same-sex relationships in Botswana, economies scapegoating LGBTQ people—criminalizing their and this report is in part an invitation to you to learn with us and but we have also seen the United States move to erase trans I created Arcus to make possible more of the kind of work our sexuality or gender identity, and exposing them to violence. to get or stay involved in this important work. The individuals health benefits from its healthcare law. We’ve seen the U.S. step partners do, and I could never do that well without the support, n Strong and growing opposition to civil society organizations featured within are among our away from environmental protections while the number of wealthy expertise, and commitment of the Foundation’s amazing whether working in social or environmental justice—and best teachers and models for Chinese nationals committing resources to conservation is growing. co-executive directors, staff, and Board members, who do more to political dissent in general—in places like Uganda and action. We hope they and their and engage more deeply in the work with every year that goes by. Honduras, making it harder to collaborate. stories affect you as they do all Recently, the United Nations warned that a million species are I can’t thank them enough or too often. I thank you, too, for your n An aggressive rollback by the U.S. administration of policy of us here at the Foundation— accelerating their approach to extinction. Its report stated it interest in Arcus and any related work you are doing. I truly hope gains won by transgender Americans, including coverage of enriching you, inspiring you, and perfectly: “The health of ecosystems on which we and all other you find this report both instructive and inspiring. transgender health needs under the Affordable Care Act of 2010. feeding your resolve to push species depend is deteriorating more rapidly than ever. We are n The promotion of mountain gorillas from critically endangered boundaries and make change. eroding the very foundations of our economies, livelihoods, food In Partnership, to endangered, signaling progress but not victory toward our security, health and quality of life worldwide.” In Partnership, longer-term goals of sustained populations, a decision that risks There are multiple layers of truth in that stark statement. The complacency and a relaxation of measures that have brought negative part is obvious, but the statement acknowledges, too, a about the moderate growth in this gorilla population. much-ignored connection between people living in harmony with Annette Lanjouw & Jason McGill, Co-Executive Directors one another and people respecting the natural world of which Jon L. Stryker, President and Founder

2 LETTERS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 3 SOCIAL JUSTICE We work in regions where we believe we can have the greatest impact with our finite resources. We focus on advancing policy, protections, and social change to ensure the physical safety, acceptance, and inclusion of those most marginal ized because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, or the intersection of these with their age or status as people of color.

arcus.link/lgbtq

The letters of the acronym LGBTQI—referring to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer/ Questioning and Intersex persons—appear in various forms and combinations on the following pages depending on their use by the individuals or the organization referenced.

4 Endnotes indicated in the following pages are listed on the inside back cover. 7 Partners Working in Selected Focus Countries

California (Central Valley) UNITED STATES

North Carolina Arizona New Mexico

Georgia

Florida

GUATEMALA HONDURAS EL SALVADOR

Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos, TRINIDAD & rapid response coordinator, TOBAGO TransLatin@ Coalition

GUYANA Nahil Zerón, human rights defender, Red Lésbica Cattrachas

Ishmael Bahati, executive director, PEMA Kenya

UGANDA Ecclesia de Lange, KENYA director, Inclusive and Affirming Ministries

MALAWI

BOTSWANA arcus.link/lgbtq

SOUTH AFRICA

5 6 SOCIAL JUSTICE Mexico City pride march, 2019 Endnotes indicated in the followingARCUS pages FOUNDATION are listed on ANNUALthe inside REPORT back cover. 2018 57 “I try to bring humanity back to them, on the inside, and when Some 28 transphobic murders in the United States they’re released.”—Alma Rosa Silva-Bañuelos is a community organizer 1 who works with transgender asylum seekers detained in Cibola County, New were recorded during 2018, the second year in a row Mexico, as a rapid response coordinator for the TransLatin@ Coalition, which in which more than two dozen trans people are known connects individuals to legal assistance and social services across the country. to have been killed. arcus.link/asylumrights

Activists outside an El Paso, Texas, Challenges Mount Against detention center call for justice for trans detainees, including Roxsana Hernandez, who died in U.S. Rollback on 2018 after being held at the Cibola facility in New Mexico. Trans and Immigrant Rights

Majorities in all 50 states, including Arcus’ six United States focus areas, support the enactment of LGBT protections.2

73% 21%

CA 68% 25% 66% 28% 73% 22% NC AZ NM 65% 29% GA arcus.link/rollback Groundbreaking cases on trans military service and gay, lesbian, and trans FL 68% 25% civil rights were taken to the Supreme Court during the last year, while the House of Representatives passed a bill that attempted to address the lack of legal protections in a majority of U.S. states, where anti-LGBTQ discrimination Favor Oppose in employment, housing, and public accommodations remains legal. Percentages do not include those respondents who declined to answer the survey question

8 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 9 “The impact of this ruling will be broad. Although it’s “I know myself who I am, but my country doesn’t recognize me, or other trans not legally binding, it will shape the way the whole people. But changing my name has to be more than a legal act. Acceptance In 2018, the Inter-American Court system interprets the question of inclusion.”—Stefano also has to come from deeper within our society.”—Nahil Zerón is a human rights of Human Rights advised member Fabeni is executive director of Washington, D.C.-based Synergía, defender at Red Lésbica Cattrachas in Honduras. He grew up in a family descended from the nations in the region to recognize an organization working on gender, sexuality, and human rights, Lenca people, who for generations have fought for their rights as indigenous Central Americans. trans identities and rights.4 with a focus on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa.

“I Want the State to Recognize Who I Am”

“One of our major achievements so far is that LGBT Hondurans have organized and created spaces that bring visibility in spite of intense violence and even assassination.”

Some 312 LGBTI murders, recognized as hate crimes, were recorded by Red Lésbica Cattrachas in Honduras alone between 2009 and 2019; fewer than 20 of the cases prosecuted resulted in convictions.

139 219 Europe North America 17 249 Africa Asia A Honduran activist raises the trans flag 2,350 at Mexico City’s 2019 Central and 8 pride march. South America Oceania

A total of 2,982 murders of trans and gender-diverse people 3 were registered around the world between 2008 and 2018. arcus.link/recognizeme

10 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 11 “Doors are starting to open because of “Homosexuality and religion are very difficult to talk about together. But In a ruling thought to be the first in which an African the relationships built over the years.” religion plays a very big role in influencing opinions, and even laws.” court overruled a church, a provincial high court in — Ecclesia de Lange is the director of South —Ishmael Bahati, executive director of PEMA Kenya, attended a 2019 religious dialogue, South Africa issued an order in March 2019 reversing a Africa-based Inclusive and Affirming Ministries, organized with Global Interfaith Network, which trained 27 LGBTI Christians and Muslims prohibition by the Dutch Reformed Church on same-sex which supported the constitutional challenge to aiming to build bridges with their church and mosque leaders. marriages and the ordination of lesbian and gay clergy. the Dutch Reformed Church.

LGBT Africans Push for Acceptance

Bahati took part in an August 2018 religion and media stakeholder training in Johannesburg, South Africa, led by Taboom Media, aimed at amplifying the voices of LGBTQI+ faith advocates and communities in priority East and Southern African countries.

Hopeful activists at a 2019 Kenya High Court hearing on the country’s legal ban on same-sex relations were later disappointed by a ruling that upheld the legislation.

While African countries make up 32 of approximately 70 nations criminalizing homosexuality, Angola and Botswana in 2019 joined a group of more than a dozen countries on the continent that have either never explicitly criminalized same-sex relations or that have repealed such legislation. Kenya’s High Court in May, however, rejected a challenge to its anti-sodomy law. arcus.link/buildingbridges

12 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 13 Social Justice Program

Multiple grants to a single organization appear in reverse chronological order.

American Civil Liberties Casa Ruby Dolores C. Huerta Foundation Front Line Defenders Interfaith Diversity Network of Muslims for Progressive Values New York City Gay and Lesbian Political Research Associates Union Foundation casaruby.org doloreshuerta.org frontlinedefenders.org West Africa mpvusa.org Anti-Violence Project politicalresearch.org aclu.org Washington, DC Bakersfield, CA Dublin, Ireland itdnowa.org Los Angeles, CA avp.org Somerville, MA New York, NY $75,000 $125,000 $100,000 Accra, Ghana $200,000 New York, NY $100,000 $150,000 Center for American Progress ECADE - Eastern Caribbean Gender Diversity $100,000 National Center for $200,000 PROMSEX - Centro de Promoción y American Psychological americanprogress.org Alliance For Diversity genderdiversity.org International Lesbian and Gay Lesbian Rights ORAM - Organization for Refuge, Defensa de los Derechos Sexuales Association Washington, DC and Equality Seattle, WA Association nclrights.org Asylum & Migration y Reproductivos apa.org $200,000 ecequality.org $60,000 ilga.org San Francisco, CA oramrefugee.org promsex.org Washington, DC Gros Islet, Saint Lucia Geneva, Switzerland San Francisco, CA Lima, Peru Center for Progressive Renewal Genders & Sexualities Alliance $125,000 $100,000 (Convergence Network) $200,000 Network $500,000 National Center for Transgender $100,000 $300,000 ASEAN SOGIE Caucus progressiverenewal.org $100,000 gsanetwork.org $55,000 Equality Other Foundation, The Proteus Fund aseansogiecaucus.org Atlanta, GA European Region of the Oakland, CA International Service for Human transequality.org theotherfoundation.org proteusfund.org Quezon City, Philippines $50,000 International Lesbian, Gay, $125,000 Rights Washington, DC Saxonwold, South Africa Amherst, MA ishr.ch $100,000 Church Properties Reimagined Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Global Interfaith Network $200,000 $550,000 $300,000 Geneva, Switzerland Astraea Foundation cprchicago.org Association gin-ssogie.org National LGBTQ Task Force Our Fund Public Religion Research Institute astraeafoundation.org Chicago, IL ilga-europe.org Johannesburg, South Africa $75,000 thetaskforce.org our-fund.org prri.org Brussels, Belgium New York, NY $150,000 $165,000 Investigative Reporters Washington, DC Wilton Manors, FL Washington, DC $280,000 $500,000 Church World Service Global Network of Rainbow and Editors $250,000 $150,000 $150,000 $200,000 $150,000 ire.org cwsglobal.org $50,000 Catholics National Public Radio OutRight Action International Reconciling Ministries Network $300,000 New York, NY rainbowcatholics.org Columbia, MO npr.org outrightinternational.org rmnetwork.org $96,080 $300,000 Faith in Public Life Rome, Italy $125,000 Washington, DC New York, NY Chicago, IL $500,000 faithinpubliclife.org Cornell University $50,000 Iranti $150,000 $100,000 $300,000 Washington, DC iranti-org.co.za Audre Lorde Project cornell.edu GLSEN National Transgender Bar Parliamentarians for Red Latina Luterana Por Diversidad alp.org $150,000 Johannesburg, South Africa Ithaca, NY glsen.org Association Global Action (Evangelical Lutheran Church in New York, NY $25,000 Forward Together New York, NY $200,000 lgbtbar.org pgaction.org America) $75,000 forwardtogether.org New York, NY New York, NY redlatinaluterana- Council for Global Equality $125,000 MANERELA+ Oakland, CA facebook.com/MANERELA- porladiversidadpr.com Borealis Philanthropy (Community Initiatives) Human Rights Watch $25,000 $50,000 borealisphilanthropy.org $100,000 136144443081334 Chicago, IL globalequality.org hrw.org Network of African National Pembizo Christian Council Minneapolis, MN Lilongwe, Malawi Washington, DC FreedHearts New York, NY Human Rights Institutions facebook.com/pembizochristian. $38,000 freedhearts.org $500,000 $200,000 $100,000 $50,000 nanhri.org council Reformation Project, The Austin, TX $75,000 Many Voices Nairobi, Kenya Nairobi, Kenya reformationproject.org $750,000 Dignity $45,000 Inclusive & Affirming Ministries dignityusa.org iam.org.za manyvoices.org $208,500 $100,000 Lenexa, KS Washington, DC California Rural Legal Assistance Medford, MA Freedom Center for Social Justice, Cape Town, South Africa New Venture Fund Point Source Youth $150,000 crla.org The $150,000 $125,000 $100,000 newventurefund.org pointsourceyouth.org Oakland, CA fcsj.org Mazzoni Center Washington, DC Brooklyn, NY Charlotte, NC Inner Circle, The $125,000 mazzonicenter.org $200,000 $100,000 $200,000 facebook.com/AlFitrahSA Wynberg, South Africa Philadelphia, PA $200,000 $75,000

arcus.link/partners * An additional $310,000 was awarded under the Social Justice Program to organizations whose names are excluded from this list due to security concerns.

14 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 15 Religious Institute TGI Justice Project Unión=Fuerza Latinx Institute SPECIAL GRANTMAKING Black Youth Project 100 Gender DynamiX Media Impact Funders SAGE - Services & Advocacy religiousinstitute.org (St. James Infirmary) (Center for Black Equality) Education Fund genderdynamix.org.za mediaimpactfunders.org for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Ali Forney Center Bridgeport, CT tgijp.org unionfuerza.org byp100.org Cape Town, South Africa Philadelphia, PA Transgender Elders aliforneycenter.org $95,000 San Francisco, CA Washington, DC Chicago, IL $5,000 $7,000 sageusa.org New York, NY $80,000 $50,000 $2,500 New York, NY Rewire News $5,000 Grantmakers for Effective Native Americans in Philanthropy rewire.news Third Wave Fund (Proteus Fund) Union Theological Seminary California Rural Legal Assistance Organizations nativephilanthropy.org $1,000 alQaws for Sexual & Gender Bethesda, MD thirdwavefund.org utsnyc.edu crla.org geofunders.org Minneapolis, MN Southerners on New Ground Diversity in Palestinian Society $100,000 Brooklyn, NY New York, NY Oakland, CA Washington, DC $9,500 southernersonnewground.org alqaws.org $250,000 $75,000 $2,500 $7,780 Atlanta, GA Ruth Ellis Center Jerusalem, Israel National Center for $2,500 ruthelliscenter.org Trans Justice Funding Project United We Dream Network $3,000 Citizen Association Egal Haus of Khameleon Lesbian Rights Highland Park, MI (Tides Foundation) unitedwedream.org egal.org.rs/en hausofkhameleon.org nclrights.org $3,000 American Civil Liberties Union $300,000 transjusticefundingproject.org Washington, DC Belgrade, Serbia Suva, Fiji San Francisco, CA Theater Offensive, The Foundation Brooklyn, NY $150,000 $25,000 $7,500 $2,000 thetheateroffensive.org Soulforce aclu.org $120,000 Boston, MA soulforce.org Victory Institute New York, NY Dance Exchange, The Higher Heights Leadership Fund National Committee for $2,500 Abilene, TX Transgender Law Center victoryinstitute.org $1,000 danceexchange.org higherheightsleadershipfund.org Responsive Philanthropy $60,000 transgenderlawcenter.org Washington, DC Takoma Park, MD Washington, DC ncrp.org Transgender Legal Defense Association of Black Foundation Oakland, CA $100,000 $5,000 $10,000 Washington, DC and Education Fund Southern African Executives $175,000 $9,500 transgenderlegal.org Christian Initiative Washington Blade abfe.org Food and Friends Hispanics in Philanthropy New York, NY sachi-sadc.org True Colors Fund washingtonbladefoundation.org New York, NY foodandfriends.org hiponline.org Pay Our Interns $9,000 Windhoek, Namibia truecolorsfund.org Washington, DC $9,500 Washington, DC Oakland, CA payourinterns.com $40,000 New York, NY $75,000 $10,000 $9,500 Washington, DC University of Tennessee Foundation Athlete Ally $125,000 $5,000 utfi.org Southerners on New Ground Yvette A. Flunder Foundation athleteally.org Forward Together Human Rights Funders Network Knoxville, TN southernersonnewground.org Trustees of Columbia University radicallyinclusive.org New York, NY forwardtogether.org (Proteus Fund) PEAK Grantmaking $5,000 Atlanta, GA columbia.edu Oakland, CA $1,000 Oakland, CA hrfn.org peakgrantmaking.org $150,000 New York, NY $150,000 $2,500 New York, NY Washington, DC Voto Latino Audre Lorde Project $64,000 $9,500 $3,000 votolatino.org Starr King School ZANERELA+ alp.org Foundation Center $125,000 Washington, DC for the Ministry zanerela.weebly.com New York, NY foundationcenter.org LGBT Books to Prisoners Philanthropy New York $10,000 sksm.edu UHAI EASHRI Lusaka, Zambia $2,500 New York, NY lgbtbookstoprisoners.org philanthropynewyork.org Berkeley, CA uhai-eashri.org/ENG $80,000 $2,000 $4,500 Madison, WI New York, NY $165,000 Nairobi, Kenya $5,000 $19,750 Black Futures Lab (Tides Center) Funders for LGBTQ Issues $95,000 Sylvia Rivera Law Project blackfutureslab.org lgbtfunders.org Life Foundation Regional Info Center - GayEcho srlp.org Ujamaa Centre for Community Oakland, CA New York, NY hhhrc.org gayecho.com/news New York, NY Development and Research $10,000 $14,500 Honolulu, HI Belgrade, Serbia ujamaa.ukzn.ac.za $200,000 Funders Together to End $7,500 $15,000 Pietermaritzburg, South Africa Homelessness Mattachine Society of $50,000 funderstogether.org Washington DC, The Boston, MA mattachinesocietywashingtondc.org $9,500 Washington, DC $15,000 arcus.link/partners

16 SOCIAL JUSTICE ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 17 GREAT APES &GIBBONS

We work to improve respect for and recognition of the intrinsic value of non-human apes; reduce and ulti- mately eliminate captivity as a reality for the world’s apes while improv- ing their care and treatment where they are held in captivity; recon- cile socioeconomic development and conservation in the landscapes where great apes and gibbons live; build an integrated and coordinated ape conservation movement; and grow recognition and consideration of great apes and gibbons in larger, adjacent conservation movements.

18 21 Bwenge, a silverback gorilla, and an infant look Partners Working in out over Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda. Selected Priority Landscapes

Tumusiime Fausta, craftmaker, Kahurire village, GUINEA Rwanda

CÔTE NIGERIA CENTRAL D'IVOIRE AFRICAN LIBERIA REPUBLIC CAMEROON KENYA UGANDA REPUBLIC OF RWANDA THE CONGO DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF TANZANIA

THE CONGO

Anna Behm Dr. Christelle Colin, Masozera, director, executive director, International Gorilla Chimpanzee Conservation

Conservation Center Programme

Wendi Tamariska, Martha Robbins, sustainable livelihoods research manager, Gunung scientist, Max Palung Orangutan Planck Institute Conservation Project for Evolutionary Anthropology

MALAYSIA

BORNEO

INDONESIA

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Priority Landscape Range Country Non Range Country 19 20 GREAT APES & GIBBONS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 21 Mountain Gorilla Conservation at a Crossroads

The relative stability of the mountain gorilla population is rooted in decades of conservation work since the 1970s, including regular censuses, close monitoring of individuals, anti-poaching patrols, veterinary interventions, habitua- tion of groups for tourism, community education, and inter- governmental collaboration— “We have to sustain and enhance what all despite periods of intensive we know to be working.” armed conflict in the region. —Anna Behm Masozera is the director of the International Gorilla Conservation Programme.

“Mountain gorilla tourism means markets for my products, money, meeting new people, learning new things, and development for me and my community.” — Tumusiime Fausta is a craftmaker in Kahurire village, Rwanda.

“Only 1,000 remain of this gorilla. Simply because the population is moving up, we can’t turn our backs on them.” —Martha Robbins is a research scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology and co-author of the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species.

GORILLAS UNDER THREAT RED LIST ESTIMATED CATEGORY POPULATION SIZE

Mountain gorilla Gorilla beringei beringei Endangered 1,004*

Grauer’s gorilla Critically Endangered <3,800** Eastern Gorilla beringei graueri Gorilla

Cross River gorilla Gorilla gorilla diehli Critically Endangered 250-300**

Western lowland gorilla Critically Endangered Western Gorilla gorilla gorilla 316,000** Gorilla

Mountain gorillas were reclassified in 2018 from critically endangered to endangered.5 *Population considered to be increasing **Population considered to be decreasing arcus.link/conservationcrossroads

22 GREAT APES & GIBBONS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 23 Borneo is the planet’s third largest island, and its rainforest Borneo Indigenous Leader is the oldest and one of the most biodiverse, home to about 15,000 Boosts Security for plant species and 220 species of terrestrial mammals, including Orangutans and Neighbors orangutans, elephants, rhinos, and leopards.

By 2020, Borneo will have lost three-quarters of the rainforest that was present in 1950, according to a projection by the World Wildlife Fund. More than half of West Kalimantan’s forest cover has “I realized that if I didn’t solve the been wiped out during the last economic problems of local people 20 years by the oil palm industry, first, they’d continue to fight with the mining, and logging. orangutans for natural resources.” —Wendi Tamariska is the sustainable livelihoods manager at Gunung Palung Orangutan Conser- vation Project (GPOCP), and a member of West Kalimantan’s native Dayak community, who have subsisted for centuries in the western part of Borneo. He won a 2019 conservation award from Gunung Palung National Park, a the Whitley Fund for Nature. 108,000-hectare protected area in West Kalimantan, hosts a rich array of plant and animal species, including one of three critically endangered orangutan subspecies, Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii.

The estimated 5,000 orangutans that live in and around Gunung Palung comprise close to 10 percent of Borneo’s remaining orangutan population. For the last seven years, a national association has purchased handicrafts from GPOCP-trained artisan groups on a monthly basis and, within recent years, 11 former loggers have signed agreements to halt deforestation and protect orangutans in exchange for livelihood support.

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A Bornean orangutan in Gunung Palung National Park

24 GREAT APES & GIBBONS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 25 Two-year-old Simon, a western chimpanzee, was rescued “When Simon arrived near Conakry, Guinea’s capital, in 2018. He was severely Infrastructure Projects Pose at the sanctuary, he traumatized and is thought to have been pushed out of his was sad, like a lost home in the country’s northwest by bauxite mining activities. Conservationists are alarmed baby. Now, he shares Risks for Guinea’s Chimps He now lives at the Chimpanzee Conservation Center in a baby hut where over the potential impact of a conditions as close as possible to his natural habitat. proposed major hydropower he’s supposed to nap, but we often hear him laughing with project, the Koukoutamba dam— the others instead of sleeping!” in the Moyen-Bafing National —Dr. Christelle Colin is the executive director of Park in central Guinea—whose the Chimpanzee Conservation Center. construction would displace thousands of local people and chimpanzees for electricity that is likely to be used to power bauxite mining.

arcus.link/simon “It’s not a choice between development or conservation. We could look at which type of energy is best for the people of Guinea that also does not impact wildlife.” — Dirck Byler is the great ape conservation director of Global Wildlife Conservation.

Guinea is Africa’s top producer of bauxite, a key material in the production of aluminum, and is HYDROPOWER PROJECTS IN GUINEA the biggest exporter of bauxite to

Moyen-Bafing National Park MALI China, the world’s largest aluminum GUINEA- Koukoutamba Dam producer. Bauxite reserves in BISSAU Haut Niger National Park Guinea are concentrated in the Chimpanzee country’s northwest, where mining GUINEA Conservation Center activities overlap with the range of the critically endangered western chimpanzee.7

SIERRA LEONE CÔTE D’IVOIRE

LIBERIA More than two-thirds of West Africa’s 52,800 western Dams planned or under construction chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes Installed dams verus) live in Guinea, according Source: State of the Apes – Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation to research published in May 2019.8 Less than one-fifth of this critically endangered population lives in state-managed protected areas, such as national parks. While Guinea’s mineral wealth makes it potentially one of Africa’s richest countries, the United Nations includes it as one of the continent’s 33 Least Developed Countries and ranks it at 175 of arcus.link/stateoftheapes 189 countries in the latest Human Development Index.6 More than half of its population lives below the poverty line.

26 GREAT APES & GIBBONS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 27 Great Apes & Gibbons Program

A bonobo rests in a tree in Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Multiple grants to a single organization appear in reverse chronological order.

CONSERVATION OF APES Global Greengrants Fund Lincoln Park Zoological Society Viet Nature Conservation Centre WELL BEING OF Orangutan Conservancy, The Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue SPECIAL GRANTMAKING greengrants.org lpzoo.org thiennhienviet.org.vn orangutan.com sychimprescue.org African Parks Foundation APES IN CAPTIVITY Biodiversity Funders Group Boulder, CO Chicago, IL Ha Noi, Vietnam Los Angeles, CA Portland, OR of America Global Federation of biodiversityfunders.org $400,000 $345,000 $68,000 $30,000 $75,000 africanparks.org/african-parks- Animal Sanctuaries San Francisco, CA foundation-america-new-york-usa Global Greengrants Fund UK Liverpool John Moores University Village Enterprise Fund sanctuaryfederation.org PASA - Pan African Sanctuaries Save the Chimps $9,250 New York, NY globalgreengrants.org.uk ljmu.ac.uk villageef.org Alliance savethechimps.org Phoenix, AZ Projet Gorille Fernan-Vaz $750,000 London, United Kingdom Liverpool, United Kingdom San Carlos, CA pasaprimates.org Fort Pierce, FL $42,500 gorillasgabon.org $25,000 $160,000 $270,000 Portland, OR $1,434,672 Borneo Nature Foundation HELP International - Libreville, Gabon $40,000 borneonaturefoundation.org Global Wildlife Conservation Max Planck Society for the Virunga Fund Habitat Écologique et Wildlife Asia $8,000 Oxford, United Kingdom globalwildlife.org Advancement of Science virunga.org Project Primate wildlifeasia.org.au Liberté des Primates Village Enterprise Fund $200,000 Austin, TX mpg.de/en Brooklyn, NY projetprimates.com/en Willagee, Australia help-primates.org villageef.org $695,998 Leipzig, Germany $250,000 Seattle, WA $120,000 Bush-To-Base Solutions Lissieu, France San Carlos, CA $96,800 $130,000 $240,000 bush2base.org Waxman Strategies $25,000 Wildlife Impact $5,000 Christiansburg, VA Greenpeace Fund Mongabay.org waxmanstrategies.com International Animal Rescue Projet Gorille Fernan-Vaz wildlifeimpact.org $150,000 greenpeacefund.org mongabay.org Washington, DC internationalanimalrescue.org gorillasgabon.org Portland, OR Washington, DC Emerald City, CA $228,000 Libreville, Gabon $120,000 Fauna & Flora International East Sussex, United Kingdom $450,000 $35,000 $500,000 $25,000 $30,000 fauna-flora.org $71,500 Cambridge, United Kingdom International Institute for Regents of the University Wildlife Conservation Society Lincoln Park Zoological Society Regents of the University $378,600 Environment and Development of California (UCLA) wcs.org lpzoo.org of Minnesota iied.org regents.universityofcalifornia.edu Bronx, NY umn.edu Fern Chicago, IL London, United Kingdom Los Angeles, CA $450,000 Minneapolis, MN fern.org $360,100 $100,000 $100,000 $631,861 Brussels, Belgium World Wildlife Fund $100,000 Jane Goodall Institute Thinking Animals United worldwildlife.org for Wildlife Research thinkinganimalsunited.org Washington, DC Forest Peoples Programme Education & Conservation New York, NY $500,000 forestpeoples.org janegoodall.org $50,000 Moreton-in-Marsh Vienna, VA United Kingdom $2,810,500 $11,840

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*An additional $187,000 in grants was awarded under the Great Apes & Gibbons Program to organizations whose names are excluded from this list due to security concerns.

28 GREAT APES & GIBBONS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 29 STATEMENT OF

FINANCIALUnaudited figures as of December 31, 2018 POSITION

ASSETS GRANTS AND OPERATING EXPENSES 2018

Investments and cash $ 199,867,400 $38,878,842 Property, equipment, and leasehold improvements (net) 1,031,684 Grants Awarded Programmatic Expenses $28,394,731 $5,904,088 Other assets 380,458 73% 15% Total Assets $ 201,279,542

Operating Expenses $4,580,023 LIABILITIES 12% Grants payable (net) $ 15,713,448 Accounts payable and accrued expenses 855,984 Deferred federal excise tax 1,650,000 Deferred rent 718,444 GRANTS AWARDED 2018 Total Liabilities $ 18,937,876 $28,394,731 Great Apes & Gibbons Program Net Assets 182,341,666 Social Justice Program – United States – Conservation of Apes Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 201,279,542 $8,763,000 $9,254,738 31% 33%

Social Justice Program Great Apes & Gibbons Program – International – Well Being of Apes in Captivity $6,818,580 $3,245,633 24% 11%

Special Grantmaking* $312,780 1%

*Additional grants intended to enhance program strategy

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30 FINANCIALS ARCUS FOUNDATION ANNUAL REPORT 2018 31 ENDNOTES 1 Trans Murder Monitoring project of Transgender Europe: transrespect.org/en/tmm-update-trans-day-of-remembrance-2018 2 Public Religion Research Institute, 2018 American Values Atlas: prri.org/american-values-atlas 3 See citation under endnote 1. As of August 22, 2019 BOARD & STAFF 4 Inter-American Court of Human Rights: corteidh.or.cr/docs/opiniones/seriea_24_esp.pdf 5 International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List, Mountain Gorilla Assessment: iucnredlist.org/species/39999/17989719 BOARD MEMBERS STAFF MEMBERS 6 United Nations Development Programme, Human Development Report: hdr.undp.org/sites/all/themes/hdr_theme/country-notes/GIN.pdf 7 Jon Stryker Rodrigo Aguiar Sebastian Naidoo State of the Apes – Infrastructure Development and Ape Conservation (Cambridge University Press, 2017): Board President and Founder Executive Assistant to Global Media Director stateoftheapes.com/volume-3-infrastructure-development the Executive Office 8 Stefanie Heinicke et al 2019 Environ. Res. Lett. 14 064001: Stephen Bennett Linh M. Nguyen pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_3049187_3/component/file_3058038/content Board Member Heather Antonissen Senior Accountant PHOTO CREDITS Communications Associate Evelynn M. Hammonds Ericka Novotny Front Cover: © Kike Arnal Inside Front Cover & p. 1: © Slobodan Randjelovic´ Board Member Angela Cave Grants Management Director p. 2: © Slobodan Randjelovic´ Digital Communications Manager p. 2-3: © Annette Lanjouw Janet Mock Lia M. Parifax p. 3: © Jurek Wajdowicz Board Member Monica Charles Executive Planning and Project p. 4: (Top to bottom) © Jurek Wajdowicz, © Kike Arnal Grants Manager Management Director p. 5-7: © Kike Arnal Catherine Pino p. 8: © Lauren Santucci / Arcus Foundation Board Member Adrian R. Coman Adam Phillipson p. 8-9: © eurydicephoto.com International Social Justice Program Great Apes & Gibbons Program Officer p. 10: © Matt O’Brien Slobodan Randjelovic´ p. 10-11: © Kike Arnal Director Board Member Helga Rainer p. 11: Photo courtesy of Stefano Fabeni p. 12: © Ishmael Bahati Desiree Flores Conservation Program Director Jeff Trandahl p. 12-13: © Simon Maina / Getty Images U.S. Social Justice Program Director p. 13: © Lodi Matsetela Board Member Chris Ransom p. 14-17: © Jurek Wajdowicz Karolina Heleno Great Apes & Gibbons Program Officer p. 18: (Left to right) © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA, © CCC / PPI, © Slobodan Randjelovic´, Social Justice Program Assistant © Tim Laman, © Fan Pengfei Cindy Rizzo p. 19-21: © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA EXECUTIVE TEAM Linda Ho Evaluation and Strategy Senior Advisor p. 22: (Top to bottom) Photo courtesy of AB Masozera, © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA, Controller © Jon Stryker / Arcus Foundation, © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA Annette Lanjouw Marie Stevenson p. 22-23: © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA Co-Executive Director p. 23: © Asgario Turyagyenda Melvin Jung Program Manager / U.K. Office Manager p. 24-25: © Tim Laman Accounting and Human Resources Jason McGill Madeleine Van Dam p. 25: (Top to bottom) Photo courtesy of the Whitley Fund for Nature, Co-Executive Director Associate © Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program Receptionist / Operations Assistant p. 26-27: © CCC / PPI Rachel Kimber p. 27: Photo courtesy of Dr. Christelle Colin Thomas W. Nichols Alisha Williams Vice President Grants Manager p. 28-29: © Slobodan Randjelovic´ U.S. Social Justice Program Officer p. 30-31: © Mukhlisin / SOCP Finance and Operations Erica Lim p. 32-33: © Bryan Simmons Eileen Young Back Cover: © Martha M. Robbins / MPI-EVA Bryan Simmons Social Justice Program Officer Office Manager Front Cover: Mexico City pride march, 2019 Vice President Daniel Maiuri Inside Front Cover & p. 1: A bonobo reaches for leaves in Democratic Republic of the Congo Communications Back Cover: Mukiza, a mountain gorilla Social Justice Program Manager Art Direction & Design: © Emerson, Wajdowicz Studios / NYC / DesignEWS.com Jennene Tierney Linda May Managing Editor: Sebastian Naidoo Vice President Captive Apes Program Director Editors: Angela Cave, Barbara Kancelbaum, Bryan Simmons Human Resources Writers: Rebecca Beyer, Angela Cave, Philippa Garson, Anna King, Sebastian Naidoo, Bryan Simmons Proofing & Research: Heather Antonissen, Linda Ho, Ericka Novotny, Lia M. Parifax, Jose Useche Thank you to our grantees, partners, and friends MIX who contributed to the content of this report. Paper from © 2019 Arcus Foundation responsible sources arcus.link/about FSC© C021556

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