Tag: Latin America

Celebrating the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prizewinners

Congratulations to the 2016 Goldman Environmental Prizewinners for their truly visionary grassroots environmental leadership! We are especially thrilled to acknowledge Edward Loure and Máxima Acuna, members of grassroots groups Global Greengrants has supported in the past. We honor them and all of the 2016 Prizewinners for their brave dedication to protecting vulnerable people and ecosystems. […]

What Funders Can Do In the Wake of Berta Caceres’ Murder

Update: Investors who had been supporting the Agua Zarca dam project withdrew funding in June 2017 after international outrage and pressure to pull out of the project as a result of Berta’s murder. Find out more here.  By Eva Rehse, Director for UK/Europe, Global Greengrants Fund UK Berta Caceres was assassinated on March 3, 2016. Since […]

#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 […]

Justice Comes Slowly for Guatemala’s Maya Achí

In 1982, over 400 Maya Achí men, women, and children were murdered for opposing a hydroelectric dam under construction on the Chixoy River. The next year, the completed Chixoy dam flooded more than 30 Maya Achí communities. Read this touching Boulder Weekly cover story about Juan de Dios Garcia, a local leader seeking justice for […]

Inside the Struggle for Ecuador’s Cordillera del Condor

Words and photo by Beth Wald In a little-known corner of southeast Ecuador lies a low range of cloud-cloaked mountains called the Cordillera del Condor. Steep, forested slopes and clean-running rivers support a dizzying array of bird, plant, animal, and fish life. Despite recent population growth, large tracts of the Condor remain unexplored. “We don’t […]

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