By Megan Barickman, Development Writer In June 2018, Global Greengrants Fund awarded a small grant to the Indigenous Cofán community of Sinangöe in Ecuador honoring a modest request to replace the motor in their dugout canoe. Yet, what resulted from the replaced motor was revolutionary for the community. The grantees, Centro Cofán Sinangöe, needed the […]
Protecting Indigenous rights to land, water, and resources is a long-term investment in Planet Earth. And yet, Indigenous voices are often excluded when it comes to decision-making around their own ancestral lands. In the Kahuzi Biega Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, one community fought to overcome huge hurdles to continue to live […]
In Indonesia, community leader Maria Loretha spent months traveling around the remote villages of East Flores and talking to the elders before she eventually found the native sorghum seed varieties that used to grow prolifically in the region. The ancient crop – now known in the Global North for its superfood qualities – had all […]
For 25 years, Global Greengrants Fund has awarded funding to grassroots-level organizations around the world utilizing a process and model that is the opposite of most funders. Tapping into a network of global advisors – experts with connections on the ground – to source groups, Global Greengrants Fund finds activists on the frontlines, working from […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications On Monday, October 8, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a U.N. – sponsored group of the world’s top scientists, released a much-anticipated report on our warming world. And the verdict? We only have 12 years left – at the most – to change our habits, halt the steadily […]
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