Grassroots activists from all over the world gathered in Paris last December for the 21st U.N. climate talks. By the end of COP21, almost 200 countries signed an agreement aimed at stopping catastrophic climate change. Global Greengrants was on the ground in Paris with a delegation of frontline activists as well as the Chair of […]
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 […]
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 […]
What will it take to stop climate change? On Thursday June 23, we’ll be hosting the local Boulder, Colorado premiere of Not Without Us. Made by the same team that brought us the acclaimed Colorado River documentary Watershed, this action-packed film follows Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned Nigerian environmentalist (and the chair of Global Greengrants Board […]
By Ursula Miniszewski, Program Officer, Gender and Environment In late May, Global Greengrants Fund, the International Network of Women’s Funds, and the Women’s Environment and Development Organization (WEDO) joined forces at the enormous Women Deliver conference in Copenhagen. Our goal: to shed light on the critical connection between women and the environment. We co-led three […]
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