When grassroots climate movements have access to flexible, trust-based funding, transformation follows. This core principle guides Global Greengrants Fund’s grantmaking—and informs our vision for a just philanthropic ecosystem centered on solidarity, not charity.
In 2025, through communications and narrative, we elevated the transformative power of well-resourced, community-led climate action and encouraged funders to invest in the visions of justice and sustainability that grassroots climate movements are building worldwide.
Read the movement stories and thought leadership that resonated most with the Global Greengrants ecosystem in 2025.
Movement stories
Carbon Credits in East Africa: Unlocking Potential, Navigating Challenges, and Shaping the Future
Global Greengrants Program Coordinator for Global Indigenous Grantmaking, Naomi Lanoi Leleto, highlights key outcomes and learnings from the East Africa Carbon Market Community Land Summit in Isiolo, Kenya—the first event of its kind organized by and for Indigenous communities to discuss the impacts of carbon trading on their lands.
Funding a Just Transition: Two Case Studies from Latin America
Two powerful new case study videos from grantee partners in Latin America—Observatorio Latinoamericano de Conflictos Ambientales (OLCA) and the Yuturi Warmi—remind us that a just transition isn’t only about phasing out fossil fuels. It’s about phasing in community power, ecological regeneration, and relational economy over extractive economy.
Simple, Not Easy: Meaningful and lasting gender justice through learning and relationship building
For International Women’s Day, we celebrated the first anniversary of the Gender and Environmental Justice Working Group (GEJWG), through which 10 grantmaking advisors and partners from around the world gather to explore what it means in practice to use a “gender justice lens” in grantmaking. We reflected on key lessons from their methodology and their work together so far, and looked ahead to what’s next.
The Power of Disability-Led Climate Movements
In recognition of International Day of Persons with Disabilities in December, we discussed the strategic benefits of funding at the intersection of disability and climate with advisors from the Global Greengrants Disability Rights and Climate Justice (DRCJ) Advisory Board. They highlighted inspiring examples of disability-led grantee action from Indonesia, Kenya, and the Philippines.
Thought Leadership
Growing Grassroots Gender-Just Climate Action
In this blog with Environmental Grantmakers Association, Global Greengrants’ Director of Gender and Equity Ursula Miniszewski shares more about Global Greengrants’ support toward gender-just climate action, as well as key recommendations for funders to join us in this work.
An architecture of hope: Why funding grassroots climate justice movements defends democracy
Global Greengrants’ VP External Relations, B de Gersigny, on why funding grassroots climate justice movements defends democracy in an op-ed for Alliance Magazine following our “Relentless Hope: Movements Powering Climate Justice and Democracy” event at Climate Week 2025 in New York.
Investing in People Power at COP30: Why Grassroots Participation Is Transforming Climate Action
In an op-ed published by Environmental Grantmakers Association, Global Greengrants VP of External Relations, B de Gersigny, reflects on COP30 and why philanthropy must shift from transactional, project-based funding toward long-term, trust-based support for grassroots movements.
Justice Is the Real Solution to the Climate Crisis
A call to action from The Global Resilience Fund, Global Greengrants, MADRE, and Purposeful for philanthropy to shift power, redistribute resources, and center the leadership of those most impacted.
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