Arcadia Fund  The Arcadia Fund is a UK charity organisation founded by Lisbet Rausing and Professor Peter Baldwin. Established in 2001, the organisation provides grants on a worldwide basis. Its primary focus currently is preserving endangered culture, preserving endangered nature and providing open access. Since 2002, the fund has provided in excess of $570 million in projects around the world. The foundation is controlled by its three trustees (Lisbet Rausing, Peter Baldwin and Dr Johannes Burger) and its team of 9 members. The fund also has an advisory board of 7 members. Arcadia has since 2002 provided in excess of $570 million globally in Grants. The grants are divided into 5 categories: Cultural, Environmental, Open Access, Discretionary and Discontinued Themes as shown in the following table   Arcadia's supported causes since inception in 2002 have been preserving endangered culture, preserving endangered nature and open access. Arcadia's has a selected issues criterion in which the organisation use's to choose grants. The methodology of grant choices has not changed since 2002 however, supported causes has altered slightly. Arcadia aims to provide cultural grants to universities, archives or museums that preserve cultural heritage and digitise near-extinct cultural heritage. Additionally, Arcadia provides environmental grants to organisations that preserve endangered habitats, at risk land as well as trains staff, enable research and policy development. Arcadia also aims to provide open access grants to increase access of free material such online as research papers and publications. Arcadia also supported causes such as human rights, philanthropy and education however since 2009 the support for the causes have been discontinued. The fund supported organisations around these discontinued themes that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's right advocacy. The Graph shows the fund's grants per years{ } Arcadia awards grants to organisations preserving endangered culture, preserving nature, and promoting open access. Arcadia's largest grant was in 2002, to the School of Oriental and African Studies— totalling £20 million (US$33,851,813) to start the Endangered Language Documentation Program (ELDP). The program enables scholars to undertake documentation of disappearing languages. By 2015, the program has documented over 350 languages. The grant also funds training scholars in modern language documentation techniques. The fund donated another US$11 million in April 2015 . In 2004 the fund founded the Endangered Archives Program at the British Library with a $25 million grant supporting the digitisation of at risk collections around the world. By Sept 2018, the program has supported more than 350 documentation programs in 90 countries, with over 6.5 million images and 25,000 sound tracks being preserved.