Global Greengrants Fund
About
With a focus on women-led, youth-led, and rural and Indigenous-led environmental justice movements, Global Greengrants directs grants to grassroots organizations on the frontlines. Guided by trust, local knowledge, and expertise, our decentralized grantmaking model strengthens grassroots leadership while addressing the logistical and programmatic challenges that often prevents other funders from providing direct support. Supporting groups who are defending their rights to territory and governance and building systems that benefit people and the planet, to-date Global Greengrants has provided grants to over 17,000 grassroots groups across 168 countries totaling more than $135M. Working directly with grassroots environmental justice organizations, these grants support women environmental action, safeguard biodiversity and natural resources, promote greater protection of environmental defenders, advance disability rights in the frame of environmental justice, support deeper investment in the rights of Indigenous Peoples, and beyond. We are proud to continue to be one of the top human rights funders in the world by the number of grants made.
About the Host
Founded in 1993, Global Greengrants Fund is one of the world’s leading funders supporting communities on the frontlines of the environmental and climate crisis. Global Greengrants supports community solutions guided by people best positioned to lead them: those most directly affected. We mobilize resources for communities worldwide to ensure that climate funding reaches grassroots movements effectively and responsibly on a large scale, supporting emerging and alternative forms of grassroots organizing from the ground up. We seek to achieve global environmental justice, rooted in cultural integrity.
Our decentralized, flexible, grassroots-focused grantmaking model is guided by an interconnected network of 30 advisory boards around the world consisting of 220 activist advisors who are locals in the communities they serve. This advisory network allows us to redistribute resources and power directly to communities, organizations and movements leading environmental and climate justice work, including women, Indigenous groups, smallholder farmers and fishing communities. ates and Western Europe working on issues of environmental justice, sustainability, and conservation.
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