During Climate Week NYC 2026, Global Greengrants Fund and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation brought together Indigenous leaders, grassroots funders, conservation practitioners, and philanthropy to explore a fundamental question: What would conservation look like if human rights, community power, and locally led solutions were treated as essential to environmental success? The conversation, Rethinking […]
By Laura García, President & CEO, Global Greengrants Fund Philanthropy often behaves as though change begins where it becomes visible. Living systems tell a different story. A river does not begin at its mouth. It is sustained by countless tributaries—some visible, others hidden—whose relationships give the whole its strength. Watersheds remind us that resilience […]
The world’s rainforests—from the Amazon to the Congo Basin to the Leuser Ecosystem—are Earth’s lungs. Just as human lungs are essential to life, the Earth’s lungs are essential to the collective equilibrium of the planet and the beings that call it home—including humans. They absorb carbon dioxide, uphold essential ecosystems, and underscore the deep […]
Co-written by Disability Rights Fund, Impatience Earth, and Global Greengrants Fund The climate crisis is already reshaping lives and landscapes around the world. But as philanthropy races to fund climate mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, one critical truth remains too often overlooked: climate justice is impossible without disability justice. That was the central call emerging […]
At Global Greengrants Fund, we have learned through decades of partnership with grassroots movements that the most important knowledge rarely fits neatly into predetermined frameworks. It lives in relationships, in memory, in cultural practice, and in deep, place-based understanding. Sometimes, it takes a different kind of map to make that visible. In Ecuador’s Yasuní […]
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