Abstract

The ISPRS Foundation is an independently registered philanthropic entity that has been established SOLELY for providing financial assistance to advance the benevolent purposes of the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS), an international, non-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) composed of more than 181 societies and organizations from more than 120 countries. The Foundation is designed to provide a variety of grants annually and is enabled to foster linked relationships with other foundations and trusts established in the ISPRS Member countries and regions for sustaining international sharing for the common good of the sciences, technologies and disciplines represented by the ISPRS. The Foundation is required to spend less than 2 % of donated funds for its administrative costs. At least 98 % of every donation goes to grantees! The ISPRS Council annually assesses needs and submits requests for support to The ISPRS Foundation. Based on availability of funds, The Foundation Trustees qualify the merits of the requests and are the approval authority. Multinational committees (no more than two committee members may be of the same nationality) support the Trustees in evaluating the requests.