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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 […]

Community Resilience in the Pacific Islands: The View from the Ground

By Kristall Laursen, Global Giving Network Manager I am from a small town in Iowa. I wasn’t born there, and I don’t live there now—but my tiny town of 700 people will always play a big role in influencing the person I am today. I moved away for the same reasons so many people leave […]

Join us for the Boulder Premiere of “Not Without Us”

What will it take to stop climate change? On Thursday June 23, we’ll be hosting the local Boulder, Colorado premiere of Not Without Us. Made by the same team that brought us the acclaimed Colorado River documentary Watershed, this action-packed film follows Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned Nigerian environmentalist (and the chair of Global Greengrants Board […]

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