Report of the Executive Director on fund-raising activities

The IAI Directorate is implementing Phase One of its Long-Term Funding Strategy, which focuses on planning, preparation, and identifying potential donors across philanthropy, entertainment, politics, and technology sectors. Key efforts include seeking 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the United States to facilitate external funding and pursuing 'Readiness Delivery Partner' status with the Green Climate Fund to support member countries. The IAI is also engaging in strategic partnerships, such as a climate resilient governance program for megacities in South America involving Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, and a global project on climate change and migration (SOURCES) led by the University of Amsterdam.

• The IAI is executing the first phase of its Long-Term Funding Strategy, which involves creating a 'Major Contributions Chart' to target five categories of potential donors: environmentally focused philanthropists, entertainment industry icons, politically-based public figures, technology/crypto-blockchain leaders, and family foundations.
• The IAI Directorate is seeking 501(c)(3) tax-exemption status from the United States Internal Revenue Service, which is expected to facilitate the securing of external funding and the subsequent development of an endowment study and strategy.
• The IAI is pursuing 'Readiness Delivery Partner' status with the Green Climate Fund (GCF) to help countries engage with the GCF and build pipelines for climate change projects, noting that the GCF Readiness and Preparatory Support Programme can provide up to USD 1 million per country per year.
• The IAI has established a partnership to develop a pilot network for climate resilient governance in megacities, specifically focusing on adaptation and mitigation actions in Buenos Aires, Santiago, and São Paulo, with collaboration from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and ICLEI.
• The IAI is participating in a global research proposal called 'Socio-hydrOlogical soURCES of migration flows' (SOURCES), a 7 million euro initiative led by the University of Amsterdam submitted to the European Commission's H2020 call on Climate change and migration in February 2019.

APA

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research (2019). Report of the Executive Director on fund-raising activities. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-27-21a-en_1.pdf

Chicago

Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research. Report of the Executive Director on fund-raising activities. 2019. https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-27-21a-en_1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{interamericaninstituteforglobalchangeresearch2019report, author = {{Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}}, title = {{Report of the Executive Director on fund-raising activities}}, institution = {Inter-American Institute for Global Change Research}, year = {2019}, month = apr, url = {https://archive.iai.int/admin/site/sites/default/files/iai-cop-27-21a-en_1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-10-23}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }