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AT-A-GLANCE In Brazil, Southeast Asia and Mexico, advisors for the Global Greengrants Fund are pioneering the creation of local environmental grantmaking organizations for grassroots and community action. Having worked over the last decade with Greengrants to channel millions of dollars to grassroots environmental groups, they have seen the need for sustained local support for environmental initiative in their regions. As a response, they are creating new members of the Greengrants Alliance of Funds: that is, independent, locally constituted and governed grantmaking organizations for environmental justice. These organizations will continue the traditional Greengrants model of supporting local environmental action. They will also mobilize new financial and material support, both regionally and internationally. Taking an active role in the creation of environmental philanthropy will enable them to strengthen local and national networks, advocate for public support for environmental action and complement grantmaking with strategic capacity-building resources. Two new members of the Alliance of Funds--the Socio-Environmental Support Center-CASA in Brazil and the Samdhana Institute in Southeast Asia--are already showing results. Both began making grants in 2005 and have since doubled the amount of grantmaking in their regions. In Mexico, Greengrants advisors launched the newest member of the Alliance of Funds, Fondo Accion Solidaria (Fund for Solidarity in Action) in May 2007, which is focusing on strengthening the environmental movement in Northwest Mexico. |
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