Giving Compass' Take:

• AVPN is mobilizing collective efforts of philanthropists to take climate action through an accelerator program focusing on climate change issues.

• The Growald Family Fund is one of the current accelerator members and aims to ignite climate innovation through venture philanthropy. Are there groups or organizations that you know of in your community working on climate change issues through collective impact? 

• Here is a framework for addressing the impacts of climate change. 

Climate change cannot be tackled alone. Many are joining new and old voices to make an impact. These include membership organization AVPN, who together with the Growald Family Fund (GFF) and other members, are looking at catalyzing this movement.

Climate change is intertwined with development – poor people in low-income countries feel the impacts first and hardest. Why? Because these people are most dependent on the land, live in vulnerable areas and have less resources to recover losses and property. Simply put, if severe weather destroys the homes and crops of already-struggling farmers, they will have few to no options to get back on track.

While climate change has historically not been top-of-mind for social investors in Asia, AVPN is acting as an “accelerator” of action.  It is motivating its members to increase the capital available to fight climate change, emphasizing the power of collective efforts.

The Growald Family Fund is one of these ‘accelerators’ they are working with. Its mission is to catalyze climate innovation and leadership through venture philanthropy. Eileen Rockefeller Growald, Co-Founder and Chair says: “As philanthropists, we care about a range of issues from human health to children’s wellbeing to biodiversity to clean air. However, climate change poses the greatest risk to all the issues we care about”. She continues by explaining: “We believe that philanthropy plays a key role in nurturing new approaches to climate solutions, supporting objective analysis for use by governments and key partners, and building a vibrant civil society”.

Read the full article about collective impact for climate action by Christina Ameln at avpn.