Category: Spotlights

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 […]

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 […]

Activism Around the World: Highlights from May 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 […]

The Mekong River Is Not For Sale

Photos and words by Gary Wockner “Preserving ‘local knowledge’ is different than westernized ‘nature protection.’ We are protecting people’s habitats, their homes, lives, food, and voices.” – Chak Kineesee, Program and Outreach Director at the Mekong School for Local Knowledge In April of 2016, I traveled to northern Thailand to meet with a Global Greengrants […]

Saving Manila’s Last Mangrove Forest

Photos and words by Ramey Newell, donor and former staff member A year ago, I didn’t know much about the Philippines. I didn’t know that it is among the 10 most biologically diverse countries on the planet, or that metropolitan Manila is the 11th most populous metro area in the world. I couldn’t utter a word […]

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