Nova Vista Foundation — RFP: Protein Innovation
The Nova Vista Foundation is a family foundation funding globally on solutions to climate change. We are hits-based and risk neutral. We are running an open RFP to provide up to $10 million to support policy advocacy, market-shaping work, and other high-leverage strategies to advance innovative proteins, by which we primarily mean plant-based meat, fermentation-derived protein, and cultivated meat. These have also flown under the banner of alternative, sustainable, or new proteins, clean meat, protein diversification, food biomanufacturing/biotechnology, and novel foods. Work on dairy and eggs is also in scope. Apply here by September 15, 2026. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. Food and agriculture account for between 21 and 37% of global emissions, the majority of which are driven by livestock, primarily via enteric fermentation, land use change, and on-farm manure. Global meat demand is rising, and on current trajectories it keeps rising. That has consequences for emissio