Tag: The Pacific Islands

Community Resilience in the Pacific Islands: The View from the Ground

By Kristall Laursen, Global Giving Network Manager I am from a small town in Iowa. I wasn’t born there, and I don’t live there now—but my tiny town of 700 people will always play a big role in influencing the person I am today. I moved away for the same reasons so many people leave […]

Global Greengrants Fund Welcomes New Advisors

Here at Global Greengrants Fund we’re thrilled to welcome three new advisors to the Next Generation Climate Board and to the Greengrants family. The Next Generation Climate Board makes grants to youth-led initiatives on the front lines of climate change. Six board members, all in their 20s, put grant dollars into the hands of youth-related […]

Saving Manila’s Last Mangrove Forest

Photos and words by Ramey Newell, donor and former staff member A year ago, I didn’t know much about the Philippines. I didn’t know that it is among the 10 most biologically diverse countries on the planet, or that metropolitan Manila is the 11th most populous metro area in the world. I couldn’t utter a word […]

It’s Not Too Late: Protecting Papua New Guinea’s Oceans

“The sea was once filled with fish,” the elderly man told a gathering of indigenous community leaders from across Papua New Guinea’s Oro Bay. He was a grandfather from a local village where people depend on the ocean for their food. In his day, it had been easy. “You could catch very big fish, maybe […]

Aftermath of Cyclone Pam: report from Vanuatu

Cyclone Pam hit Vanuatu three weeks ago…and destroyed entire villages on the island of Erromango. About 10,000 people live on Erromango, the third largest island in Vanuatu. Because it is so sparsely populated, it is not high on the radar of big relief agencies. But overharvesting of sandlewood and extensive cattle and pig cultivation have […]

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