Tag: Africa

From Durban to Denver: Acting Together for Environmental Justice

In September 2016, I traveled to Durban, South Africa to join grantmaking advisors working with Global Greengrants Fund around the world for several days of conversations about climate change, fossil fuels, the safety of environmental defenders, and our ongoing work together. While joining hundreds of thousands of people at the Women’s March on Colorado, I […]

Movements around the World: Highlights from January 2017

  Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 grants to environmental defenders 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 with you. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported recently. […]

Standing Up to Hazardous Waste Dumping in South Africa

Words by Liziwe McDaid, Coordinator of the Southern Africa Advisory Board, and Allison Davis, Deputy Director of Programs Noxious fumes, contaminated water, sick children. For residents of the KwaZulu Natal Province of Durban, South Africa, the above are a regular part of daily life. Liquid that seeps through an industrial landfill near their homes produces […]

Movements around the World: Highlights from November 2016

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 700 grants to environmental defenders 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 with you. Here are three exciting projects we’ve supported recently. Indonesia: […]

Deconstructing Jargon: Capacity Building and Awareness Raising in Burkina Faso

Photos and words by Robert Riker, Grants Associate If you Google the phrases capacity building and awareness raising, you’ll be hard pressed to find a universally accepted definition—or any definition at all. I see these two phrases all the time in grant proposals at Global Greengrants,but even I’ve struggled to understand the full meaning of […]

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