Soil to Sky: Climate Solutions That Transform
A new CLIMA Fund report presents a new body of evidence demonstrating how grassroots movements are key to transforming the two largest polluting sectors globally: food and energy.
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Grassroots Climate Justice Movements Get Results
New briefs by the CLIMA Fund highlight how grassroots climate justice movements are advancing systemic and policy change.
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New Resources on Building Grassroots Power for Climate Justice
The CLIMA Fund — of which Grassroots International is a member — recently released both a series of short videos and an impact report on its 5-year anniversary of funding grassroots climate solutions.
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Climate Solutions from Soil to Seed
This World Food Day, we uplift the work of social movements to end hunger and cool the planet through agroecology and food sovereignty. We commit to standing with them for the long haul and invite other funders to join us.
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Environmental Defender Murdered in Honduras
Presente Edwin Fernández! Edwin provided security in a community where our partner, the Black Fraternal Organization of Hondurans (OFRANEH), is doing COVID relief. He is just one of the many environmental, land and Indigenous rights defenders who have been killed in recent years.
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Coronavirus: how to care for the Earth and each other
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.
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With Peoples’ Protests Mounting, Why Are Philanthropists Lagging Behind on Climate Change?
Investment in a multiplicity of community-led climate solutions would mean durable and scalable progress on feeding the planet, stopping the fossil fuel industry and deforestation, and advancing public health.
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Green Intermediaries: The Pooled Funds Connecting Donors to the Frontlines of Climate Change
Climate change is a notoriously underfunded issue. One bright spot—or series of bright spots—has been the rise of intermediaries, organizations that help foundations and donors move money into underfunded corners of the climate movement.
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Soil to Sky: Climate Solutions That Work
A new report from the CLIMA Fund uplifts the solutions that have too often been excluded from climate philanthropy, yet have great potential for scaled impact on the most urgent crisis of our time.
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2018 in Review: Growth of Resistance, Impact
A look at the successes Grassroots International and our partners have had in 2018 — including a dramatic increase in our solidarity and impact.
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Five Ways that Funders Approach Climate Philanthropy
These five narrative frames and their embedded assumptions determine how billions of dollars in climate philanthropy and finance are spent. Without mapping and exposing these frames we cannot engage in honest conversation about the role of philanthropists in supporting transformative change.
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Is the Solution to Climate Change Caring More About People?
Solidarity to Solutions was a week of uplifting grassroots climate leadership to counter the narrative of the Global Climate Action Summit that corporations and national leaders will move us towards a climate safe, equitable future. Here are some of our reflections, as funders, on navigating those spaces.
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Fonds CLIMA
Le fonds CLIMA est un moyen pour les bailleurs de fonds de soutenir directement les travaux menés par des peuples autochtones, des femmes et des jeunes visant à renforcer la résistance aux changements climatiques et à atténuer le chaos climatique....
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Why We Need Collaborations to Tackle Climate Change
Together, Global Greengrants Fund, Thousand Currents, Grassroots International, and Urgent Action Fund for Women’s Human Rights help grassroots organizations working at the intersection of climate resilience and human rights by transforming large amounts of grant capital into strategic investments in effective grassroots climate solutions.
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A Partnership Making the Case for Supporting Grassroots Climate Work
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund, a partnership of four grantmakers that have been supporting indigenous rights, climate and economic justice, and women’s rights for more than 100 years combined.
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Climate Justice is Possible When…We Listen to the Grandmothers
The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund is not built on merely an idealistic, aspirational perspective, but on conviction grounded in many decades of walking alongside “bucket brigade grandmothers” and supporting many more of the fiercest community-led actions in the world.
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A New Collaborative: Announcing Launch of the Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund
Indigenous Peoples, women, youth, and diverse grassroots groups around the world have the solutions to our global climate crisis. The Grassroots Climate Solutions Fund finances and amplifies these solutions—to ensure a brighter future for us all.
“We are thrilled to join with sister foundations and move more funding and support to grassroots solutions to climate change,” says Chung-Wha Hong, Executive Director of Grassroots International. “Together our complementary strengths and common resolve can have a greater impact by supporting powerful, community-led and globally minded solutions.”
The Need for Grassroots Solutions