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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

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