By Ursula Miniszewski, Program Officer, Gender and Environment In late May, Global Greengrants Fund, the International Network of Women’s Funds, and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) joined forces at the enormous Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen. Our goal: to shed light on the critical connection between women and the environment. We co-led three […]
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 […]
Photos and words by Gary Wockner “Preserving ‘local knowledge’ is different than westernized ‘nature protection.’ We are protecting people’s habitats, their homes, lives, food, and voices.” – Chak Kineesee, Program and Outreach Director at the Mekong School for Local Knowledge In April of 2016, I traveled to northern Thailand to meet with a Global Greengrants […]
Here at Global Greengrants Fund we’re thrilled to welcome three new advisors to the Next Generation Climate Board and to the Greengrants family. The Next Generation Climate Board makes grants to youth-led initiatives on the front lines of climate change. Six board members, all in their 20s, put grant dollars into the hands of youth-related […]
UPDATE: The Brazilian Government cancelled the license for the dam on August 4, 2016. Read more here. Indigenous allies in the Amazon celebrated an incremental victory last month as Brazil suspended plans to build the country’s second largest mega dam (after Belo Monte). This is a big win for our grantees, Movimiento Ipereg Ayu, a […]
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