The Trust has about $250,000 to give as grants each year. There is no minimum or maximum grant amount. Grants have ranged from $2,000 to $50,000.
Find out more about the Pacific Development and Conservation Trust and its history at the link below:
The objectives of the Trust shall be to encourage and promote:
- the enhancement protection and conservation of the physical environment of the Pacific and of its natural and historic resources;
- the peaceful economic, physical, and social, development of the Pacific and of its peoples;
- the peaceful conservation and development of the cultural heritage of the peoples of the Pacific;
- peace understanding and good-will between the peoples of the Pacific.
Citizens or organisations from these places in the Pacific may put in a request for funding:
- American Samoa
- Australia
- the Cook Islands
- the Federated States of Micronesia (Chuuk, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Yap)
- Fiji
- French Polynesia
- Guam
- Kiribati
- the Marshall Islands
- Nauru
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Niue
- Northern Mariana Islands
- Palau
- Papua New Guinea
- Pitcairn
- Samoa
- Solomon Islands
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Tuvalu
- Vanuatu
- Wallis and Futuna
