This is part one of a four part series written by the Executive Directors of the Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund’s member organizations. The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund is a partnership of four grantmakers – Global Greengrants Fund, Thousand Currents, Grassroots International, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights – which helps large funders to […]
Words by Majandra Rodriguez Acha and the TierrActiva Colombia team with special input from Jorge Jimenez Castro. In 2017, TierrActiva Latin America received a $7,500 grant to organize a climate justice gathering in Machetá, Colombia as the first official activity of the network. Over three days, the group welcomed 80 youth climate leaders of various […]
By Allison Davis, Deputy Director of Programs, Global Greengrants Fund An article was recently published in The Chronicle of Philanthropy, asking the question, has the time come for foundations to explore the use of participatory grantmaking? In it, Chris Cardona from the Ford Foundation and Cynthia Gibson from the Case Foundation, explore the idea that […]
Today marks the release of a new mapping report by Global Greengrants Fund and Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds, titled Our Voices, Our Environment: The State of Funding for Women’s Environmental Action. This report is the first-ever benchmarking of philanthropic funding in support of women and the environment, and includes 34 interviews with funders, local women […]
The year was 1993, and Burma was in chaos. A young man carried an envelope filled with cash across the war-torn border between Burma and Thailand. He was delivering Global Greengrants Fund’s first-ever grant. The recipient? Green November 32, at the time Burma’s only environmental and human rights organization. The cash in that envelope produced […]
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