Category: Successes

2009 Wrap-Up: Celebrating Achievements on the Global Front

In our sixteenth year of supporting grassroots environmental groups around the world, Global Greengrants Fund is proud to look back on 2009 as a year of landmark victories and worldwide recognition for the work of our grantees.

Native American Grantee Wins Battle over Mining Permit!

In a landmark victory for the Navajo and Hopi people of Black Mesa, Arizona, a coal mining permit for their lands was revoked this month.

Rockefeller Brothers Fund Highlights Greengrants

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund (RBF) and Greengrants have partnered together for the past four years to support key environmental health projects in Southern China.

Former Greengrants Intern Exposes Injustice in West Africa

The oil pipeline that runs from Chad through Cameroon in western Africa was supposed to contribute to poverty reduction in local villages. Instead, after six years of pumping oil to be exported abroad, the pipeline has only led to increased poverty, displacement, and environmental contamination.

Victory for Indigenous Peoples in Canada!

After a long, hard fight against mining interests on their land, the Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug (KI) indigenous community in northern Ontario has finally won its battle.

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