Category: Successes

Success in Guatemala: Supreme Court Suspends License for El Tambor Gold Mine

Have you ever felt so strongly about something that you were willing to stay up day and night indefinitely to make your dream a reality? The people who live in La Puya, Guatemala know all about that kind of perseverance, and now about the sweet satisfaction that comes with success. The villagers spent the past […]

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 […]

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 […]

Clean Water, Thanks to Aveda

Did you know that 1 in 3 people around the world lack enough water to meet their daily needs? More than 800 million people rely on an unclean drinking-water source, risking disease with every sip. But grassroots groups are protecting their rivers, lakes, and water sources. Every April since 2007, Global Greengrants Fund and Aveda […]

#WomenAndClimate Wins the 2016 Wilmer Shields Award for Excellence in Communications

  Exciting news! Our #WomenAndClimate Communications Program has been awarded the Council on Foundations’ 2016 Wilmer Shields Rich Award for Excellence in Communications! The program crystallizes the inextricable link between women and climate change, amplifies voices of grassroots change makers, and builds funders’ capacity to support grassroots women’s action. “Thank you to the Council on […]

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