Tag: Latin America

Supporting Local Women as Agents of Change

At Global Greengrants Fund we partner with select responsible businesses to create lasting sustainability in communities around the world. We are excited about our most recent corporate partnership with the Avery Dennison Foundation as we work together to support local change with a global impact. Together, Avery Dennison and Global Greengrants Fund are supporting seven women-led grantee groups […]

Berta, Presente! How We Support Environmental Defenders On the Frontlines

  Update: Investors who had been supporting the Agua Zarca dam project withdrew funding in June 2017 after international outrage and pressure to pull out of the project as a result of Berta’s murder. Find out more here.  A year ago, our dear friend and grantee Berta Cáceres was gunned down in her home. Her crime? […]

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 […]

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. […]

Clean Energy Solutions: Solar-Powered Transportation Through the Amazon Rainforest

Traditionally, the Achuar people in Ecuador were semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers, traveling by foot or by canoe. Since missionaries arrived in their territory 50 years ago, the lives of the Achuar have changed dramatically- moving into settled communities with access to radio, internet, and air travel. However, travel by boat is still a regular part of daily […]

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