Tag: Disability Rights

How Funders Can Address Ableism in the Environmental Justice Movement

In 2018, Global Greengrants Fund, a leading funder of grassroots environmental justice movements, began a new initiative to support work at the intersection of disability rights and environmental justice. This initiative was supported by The Ford Foundation, as well as Yolanda Muñoz, a previous Program Officer with the Disability Rights Fund, who offered her experience […]

Challenging Monoculture in Brazil: COVID-19 Sparks Return to Traditional Cassava

Words by Eduardo Alfredo Moraes Guimarães of The Institute for Human and Integrated Development (ITC), an organization supported by CASA Socio-Environmental Fund (CASA). CASA is Global Greengrants Fund’s grantmaking arm in Brazil. It is a revolutionary act to oppose the monoculture of colonial export agriculture and, at the same time, to revitalize traditional crops such […]

Youth Movements, Inclusion, and Climate Justice in Zimbabwe

How one grantee is making sure everyone has a voice in the climate conversation When it comes to climate change, environmental sustainability and policy decisions, we often think of government entities, politicians, and rooms with long conference tables. The Zimbabwe Sunshine Group (ZSG) is seeking to change that. ZSG, a Greengrants grantee, wants new spaces […]

10 Podcasts to Pass the Time

Tune into these environmental and social justice podcasts By Julia Woods, Communications Specialist Going on a road trip? Have some time to kill? What better time to educate yourself on some of the most pressing environmental and social justice issues of our time. Read on for ten podcasts we’re loving right now. And if movies […]

Five Ways Environmental Defenders are Responding to COVID-19

Across the world, our grantees are acting today for a brighter tomorrow. At Global Greengrants Fund, we trust the instincts of local people. The current pandemic is no different, and we continue to give money to communities and individuals to be used in the ways they deem fit. In response to COVID-19, our grantees are […]

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