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The Quiet Dehumanization of the Canadian First Nations People

Words and Photos by Dana Dallavalle, Donor Relationship Manager When will there be a campaign to bring back the Canadian First Nations people, just as they have done for the wolves and the moose? Recently, I spent a long weekend at the Bioneers Conference in California, where Global Greengrants Fund grantee Judy Da Silva spoke about […]

Frontline Action in Honduras

Last week, two land rights defenders in Honduras were shot and killed in a drive by shooting in Tocoa, Colón. In response to the assasinations of human rights defenders José Ángel Flores and Silmer George, our friends at Frontline Defenders are calling on Honduran authorities to take action with the below letter. “On 18 October 2016, land […]

Deconstructing Jargon: Capacity Building and Awareness Raising in Burkina Faso

Photos and words by Robert Riker, Grants Associate If you Google the phrases capacity building and awareness raising, you’ll be hard pressed to find a universally accepted definition—or any definition at all. I see these two phrases all the time in grant proposals at Global Greengrants,but even I’ve struggled to understand the full meaning of […]

And the 10,000th Grant Is….

Exciting news! We just made our 10,000th grant. We would not have been able to achieve this milestone without the help of our network of advisors who have eyes and ears on the ground making it possible to find and invest in groups deeply rooted in communities and committed to a sustainable future. We’d also […]

Three Ways our Grantees Are Ensuring Food Security on World Food Day

World Food Day is on Sunday, October 16, and this year’s theme is “Climate is changing. Food and agriculture must too.” Food security is one of the biggest climate change related issues facing people around the world today. Farmers, fisherfolk, and pastoralists are among those hit hardest by rising temperatures and increasingly frequent weather-related disasters. […]

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