Greengrants in the News
Recently Greengrants made its “Colorado Match” of $100,000 has been organizing panels on “Intuition in Grantmaking” and “Funding on the Edge”, and will host a reception on April 24 in San Francisco.
Papua New Guinea: Kimbe Bay Community Sets Aside Marine Protection Areas
With the help of Greengrants funding, Mahonia Na Dari, a community-based organization in Papua New Guinea’s Kimbe Bay, has brought together community members, educators and international researchers to establish 23 protected marine areas. They have also started an education program so successful that Papua New Guineaís government integrated it into the national school curriculum. In […]
Seeking Environmental Justice in South Africa
by Michael Kramer-Duffield In the heavily industrialized area of South Durban, many communities have banded together over the last decade to bring attention to and find remedies for the great harm they have incurred from living in the midst of often careless and poisonous industries. The South Durban Community Environmental Alliance (SDCEA) has been the […]
Ecuador: Altervia Helps Rural Communities Develop Alternative Energy
While many countries suffer from a lack of energy resources, Ecuador suffers, in a sense, from both the lack and the availability of energy. On the one hand, many rural villages simply do not have access to inexpensive energy sources that would allow them to improve their quality of life. According to a 2001 World […]
Highlights from the Greengrants Advisory Board Retreat
This past April, global and regional representatives of Greengrants’ network of advisors met in Amsterdam to share ideas, strategies and plans for the future.