Tag: Healthy Communities and Ecosystems

Reflections on China’s grassroots environmental movement

By Courtney Banayad, Senior Foundation Partnerships Manager Yu Yin, the coordinator of Global Greengrants Fund’s small grants program in China, recently joined me in New York City for a series of meetings with donors on the role of grassroots grantmaking in fueling environmental and social justice movements, especially in regions where space for civil society […]

China’s water problem: the grassroots road to accountability

By Julie Dugdale Rampant water pollution isn’t breaking news in China. It’s a way of life. The images are no longer shocking: children swimming in garbage-choked lakes; waterways congested by bloated, poisoned fish rotting at the surface; industrial pipes openly spewing torrents of chemical waste into rivers and reservoirs. China’s Pollution Status Quo The numbers […]

Sending support to Kenya’s Athi River

  The Athi River is Kenya’s second longest waterway and one of its most endangered. Violet Matiru knows grassroots grants can help. A grant advisor in East Africa, Violet is strategically directing Greengrants to riverside communities. Her goal: to support the health of the entire river basin, one community at a time. “Once we can […]

Afro-Colombians campaign against aerial fumigation – and win

By Carley St. Clair For 21 years, the drone of low-flying planes has been omnipresent throughout the state of Cauca, Colombia. Otherwise healthy people have had troubling breathing, babies have been born with birth defects, women have had miscarriage after miscarriage, crops have died mysteriously, and individual rights have been continually disrespected. These planes have […]

The power of unity: lessons from the Biennial of the Americas

By Nicole Schmitt, Grants Administrator Imagine if cities around the world united to address systemic social justice and environmental problems. On July 17, I attended a panel discussion at the Biennial of the Americas—a festival to celebrate ideas, culture, art, and culture from around the Americas—on the return of the city-state. Mayors from across the […]

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