Tag: North America

Activism Around the World: Highlights from May 2016

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 grants to environmental activists around the world, helping to support grassroots initiatives to protect the planet and the rights of the people who call these natural places home. We wish we could share every single story. Below are a few grants made recently that we’d like to […]

Global Greengrants Fund Welcomes New Advisors

Here at Global Greengrants Fund we’re thrilled to welcome three new advisors to the Next Generation Climate Board and to the Greengrants family. The Next Generation Climate Board makes grants to youth-led initiatives on the front lines of climate change. Six board members, all in their 20s, put grant dollars into the hands of youth-related […]

Global Greengrants Welcomes New Staff

Every year, more than 700 grants are processed in our Boulder, Colorado, office and sent or wired to grant recipients around the globe. We are happy to welcome these new members to the Global Greengrants team! Carter Anderson, Grants Administrative Assistant Before joining Global Greengrants in 2015, Carter interned, worked, and volunteered for nonprofits in Peru […]

Protecting Canada’s Great Bear Rainforest

Thanks to a landmark conservation deal passed in Canada on February 1, 2016, 9.1 million acres of irreplaceable temperate forest in British Columbia is now protected. To put that in perspective, that’s half the size of Ireland. That’s over twice the size of Belize. That’s 9,100,000 football fields. The Great Bear Rainforest is home to […]

Frontline Action Key to COP 21 Success

By Terry Odendahl for Rachel’s Network An environmental turning point has occurred in the United States: Shell pulled out of the Arctic, President Obama stopped the Keystone XL pipeline, and Hillary Clinton announced her opposition to the Trans Pacific Partnership. Why has this turning point occurred? People forced it. The official Conference of Parties meetings […]

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