Tag: Africa

Improving Access to Clean Water Worldwide $12 at a Time

Over 700 million people around the world lack access to the one thing all people need to survive – water. Today, on World Water Day, the world is recognizing efforts to tackle the water access crisis. Today also marks the beginning of Aveda Earth Month. For more than a decade, Aveda and Global Greengrants Fund have partnered […]

Meet an Advisor: 4 Questions with Lalaina Rakotoson

An advisor on Global Greengrants’ East Africa Advisory Board, Lalaina Rakotoson is also the founder and Vice President of the Development and Environmental Law Center in Madagascar. She is an environmental justice lawyer and Fulbright scholar with a broad range of experience working on environmental issues that impact communities, including climate change, marine and coastal […]

Movements Around the World: Highlights from February 2017

Each year Global Greengrants Fund makes over 800 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. Costa […]

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. […]

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