By Hannah Dillon, Director of The Iris Project Photo credit: Dana Romanoff Photography, LLC It’s no secret that the philanthropy sector needs a shake-up. For too long, well-intentioned environmental initiatives have been designed in isolation from the communities they purport to serve, by people in the Global North who lack both the imagination and lived […]
Photo credit: Elizabeth Weber At Global Greengrants Fund, Earth Day is every day. From Indigenous communities protecting the Amazon from deforestation to local communities in Ghana opposing the expansion of mining projects to groups in the Pacific educating their communities about climate resilience, we are supporting those who are on the frontlines of defending and […]
By Peter Kostishack, Director of Programs At COP26, many governments and investment institutions announced commitments to phase out coal power and end direct international financing of the fossil fuel industry. Yet even with these commitments, governments’ planned oil and gas production is still double what is needed to meet the Paris Agreement’s 1.5°C limit. The […]
By Alex Grossman, Director of Communications On Monday, August 10, 2021, The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released yet another report highlighting the dire situation humanity and our planet will be in if we don’t curb carbon emissions immediately, and keep global warming to under 1.5 degrees Celsius. The 2018 report gave us just 12 […]
In 2018, Global Greengrants Fund, a leading funder of grassroots environmental justice movements, began a new initiative to support work at the intersection of disability rights and environmental justice. This initiative was supported by The Ford Foundation, as well as Yolanda Muñoz, a previous Program Officer with the Disability Rights Fund, who offered her experience […]
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