Month: June 2016

2015 Global Survey of Grassroots Grant Recipients

Global Greengrants Fund has been breaking new ground in environmental grantmaking for more than 20 years. We buck traditional philanthropic models by giving local people in non-industrialized countries the power to decide which projects to back—and how to use our support to advance their health, safety, environments, and rights. Through our network of expert, on-the-ground […]

5 Questions for “Not Without Us” Filmmaker Mark Decena

Grassroots activists from all over the world gathered in Paris last December for the 21st U.N. climate talks. By the end of COP21, almost 200 countries signed an agreement aimed at stopping catastrophic climate change. Global Greengrants was on the ground in Paris with a delegation of frontline activists as well as the Chair of […]

Activism Around the World: Highlights from June 2016

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. We wish we could share every single story. Below are a few grants made recently that we’d like to […]

Ecological Truth Telling: An Interview with Rainforest Action Network founder, Randy Hayes

Randy Hayes founded Rainforest Action Network in 1985 and has a long history advocating for the rights of people living in our planets’ most threatened environments. We sat down with Randy for a lively and wide-ranging conversation about the genesis of Global Greengrants, which he helped found in the early 1990s, his latest venture—Foundation Earth—and […]

Global Greengrants Welcomes Summer Interns

Each year, our office processes 700 grants that go to grantees around the globe. This task is made possible by the great team and staff we have here in Boulder. We’re thrilled to introduce five interns who are joining us for the summer. Taylor Strub Taylor is currently a junior at the University of Colorado […]

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