Tag: Africa

Movements around the World: Highlights from July 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. Ghana: […]

Movements Around the World: Highlights from June 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. Below are a few grants made recently that we’d like to […]

Clean Water, Thanks to Aveda

Did you know that 1 in 3 people around the world lack enough water to meet their daily needs? More than 800 million people rely on an unclean drinking-water source, risking disease with every sip. But grassroots groups are protecting their rivers, lakes, and water sources. Every April since 2007, Global Greengrants Fund and Aveda […]

#WomenAndClimate Wins the 2016 Wilmer Shields Award for Excellence in Communications

  Exciting news! Our #WomenAndClimate Communications Program has been awarded the Council on Foundations’ 2016 Wilmer Shields Rich Award for Excellence in Communications! The program crystallizes the inextricable link between women and climate change, amplifies voices of grassroots change makers, and builds funders’ capacity to support grassroots women’s action. “Thank you to the Council on […]

3 Water Stories From Around the World

By Carley St. Clair Water is a building block of life. With too little, we would not exist. With too much, homes and ecosystems are destroyed. World Water Day gives us a chance to reflect on protecting our most important–and precious–resource. Recent stories about water pollution in Flint, Michigan; New Mexico, and Colorado remind us […]

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