Category: Spotlights

Holding Mining Corporations Accountable in Cameroon

By Richard Mbom, CEO of Social Enterprise for Environmental Development (SEED), a grantee that advocates for best practices in the artisanal and small-scale gold mining sector in eastern Cameroon. For twenty years, foreign investors have come to Africa seeking permits for the exploitation of the continent’s natural resources. Most of these investors come from Asia […]

Challenging Monoculture in Brazil: COVID-19 Sparks Return to Traditional Cassava

Words by Eduardo Alfredo Moraes Guimarães of The Institute for Human and Integrated Development (ITC), an organization supported by CASA Socio-Environmental Fund (CASA). CASA is Global Greengrants Fund’s grantmaking arm in Brazil. It is a revolutionary act to oppose the monoculture of colonial export agriculture and, at the same time, to revitalize traditional crops such […]

Liel Biran: One Man’s Journey to Climate Activism in Israel

Words by Liel Biran, a volunteer community organizer with Israel-based group, Green Course. In 2020, through our partnership with 350.org, Global Greengrants Fund awarded Green Course $12,000 to support “Strike for Future ISRAEL”: a youth-led movement of Jews and Arabs who are mobilizing their peers and leading school strikes and activities to protest against the […]

A Changing Climate: The Youth Response in Jamaica

As an island nation, Jamaica is highly vulnerable to the impacts of extreme weather and global climate change. Many young Jamaicans are being left out of climate change conversations, and as a result they are unaware of how climate change will directly impact the future of their communities. Jamaica faces a number of environmental issues, […]

Youth Activism, Inclusion, and Climate Justice in Zimbabwe

How one grantee is making sure everyone has a voice in the climate conversation When it comes to climate change, environmental sustainability and policy decisions, we often think of government entities, politicians, and rooms with long conference tables. The Zimbabwe Sunshine Group (ZSG) is seeking to change that. ZSG, a Greengrants grantee, wants new spaces […]

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