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Five Ways Environmental Activists are Responding to COVID-19

Across the world, our grantees are acting today for a brighter tomorrow. At Global Greengrants Fund, we trust the instincts of local people. The current pandemic is no different, and we continue to give money to communities and individuals to be used in the ways they deem fit. In response to COVID-19, our grantees are […]

For Women and Girls

Global Greengrants Fund Selected to Participate in Action Coalition for the Generation Equality Forum On July 1, the 65 leaders of the six Generation Equality Action Coalitions for the Generation Equality Forum were announced, including Global Greengrants Fund. These coalitions intend to drive action over the next five years to achieve gender equality and protect human […]

Look Beyond Corporations and Place Your Trust in Local People

From COVID-19 to Climate Change In January 2020, Larry Fink, founder and CEO of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, wrote a letter to the CEOs of the world’s top companies announcing that BlackRock would begin exiting investments that didn’t focus on environmental sustainability. With nearly $7 trillion in investments, BlackRock’s commitment to companies dedicated […]

Deadly Dunes: The Risks of Standing Up for Justice in Pondoland, South Africa

Welcome to Pondoland, South Africa’s least economically developed region. What the region lacks in infrastructure, it makes up for in natural resources. Ecologists have named the region the Pondoland Center for Plant Endemism, home to many species found nowhere else in the world. While beautiful, Pondoland is also home to violence and strife. Transworld Mining, […]

A Call for Change

The oppressive systems that exploit the environment globally are the very same systems that disproportionately police, exploit, and murder black and brown people. White supremacy is the root that allows these violent systems to thrive, and we cannot truly achieve environmental or social justice without eradicating systemic racism from our society. We are outraged by […]

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