Feeding the World, Cooling the Planet
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
For the month of April, we’re looking at the connection between the rights of peasants and the health of Mother Earth.
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.
As we celebrate Earth Day today, let us celebrate the Indigenous movements at the center of defending the Earth — movements like our partner COPINH, The Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras.
For January 2022, Grassroots is looking at the year ahead, the social conditions impacting our and our partners’ work, and the stories of resistance and solution-building we’ll be sharing with our supporters.
Given the hardship these families are going through now and for months to come, we are calling upon all people of conscience to take action in solidarity.
Since last week, tens of thousands of families have faced devastating flooding in the state of Bahia, Brazil. The floods have displaced more than 93,000 people and have taken 26 lives. People are scrounging for their few remaining belongings, and...
In an area where air quality are among the worst in the country, RISE St. James is working tirelessly to change the landscape.
While recognizing that with every victory comes a new front of struggle in collective efforts to transform the world, we cap off 2021 with twelve movement successes involving our partners and allies whom we have been honored to accompany.
Grassroots International stands with Indigenous movements at the forefront of the global climate justice movement. They are building upon centuries-long struggles for Indigenous sovereignty over land, water and other forms of territory.
After the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland, it's more important than ever for philanthropy to fund real climate solutions led by frontline communities.
Grassroots International joined over 700 other organizations and movements to call for real solutions to solve climate change — not a continuation of harm dressed up as “net zero” carbon budgeting. Unfortunately, the upcoming COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland...
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.
In his film “L’Eau Est La Vie (Water is Life),” Grassroots International board member Sam Vinal pieces together firsthand accounts from L’Eau Est La Vie camp organizers as they resist the Bayou Bridge Pipeline.
What is known at the time of writing is that the death toll from Hurricanes Eta and Iota (currently nearing 200) continues to grow, while more than 200,000 are without homes and millions more are impacted by the combined effects of the hurricanes and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Indigenous, Afro-descendant, and peasant/small-scale farming communities in Honduras and Guatemala are facing devastating floods from Hurricane Eta and Iota. They’re now losing their homes and hundreds of hectares of crops after an already difficult year. Climate change has driven the...
Activists, including Indigenous leaders from Brazil and Minnesota, spoke out against carbon pricing at an Environmental Grantmakers Association fall meeting. Against carbon pricing they offered life-sustaining climate solutions.
In an interview from Greenhouse PR, Nnimmo Bassey speaks on the movement he helps to lead, the Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) in Nigeria. HOMEF is a Grassroots International grantee.
The coronavirus exposes our dysfunctional leadership and sparking new ways of caring for each other and the planet, writes CLIMA Fund director Lindley Mease.
A new report released during the Environmental Grantmakers Association’s Winter Briefing in San Juan, Puerto Rico, urges U.S. philanthropy to invest in Puerto Rico’s social movements as the best solution to the archipelago’s climate and humanitarian crisis. Many of the...
The report chronicles deep lessons in transformational change, from Puerto Rico’s social movements which are visionary and oppositional, centering sovereignty and self-governance. For funders who are interested in supporting movements who are building a pathway to a decolonized, thriving and resilient Puerto Rico, this report will provide a helpful roadmap.