Environmental Funders Networkcommunities Archives

Annie Pickering Where’s the funding for council and community climate action?

Posted on 17 Jan 2024

Climate Emergency UK have recently published the first-ever UK-wide assessment of local government climate action: the Council Climate Action Scorecards. The results? Not good - the average council scored 32% on the actions they have taken towards net zero. Annie Pickering from Climate Emergency UK shares the barriers to local climate action and why funders can spark real progress on local government's journey to net zero.

Keywords: climate change, communities, fundraising, government

Marie-Amélie Viatte Why aren’t we putting our money where our mouth is?

Posted on 1 Nov 2023

What if we saw the opportunity before us and decided to make it our number one priority to invest in food growing in urban areas? In this blog, Marie-Amélie Viatte discusses the need for a food revolution and how deliberate investment into regenerative urban food growing can be the catalyst for change we’ve been looking for.

Keywords: communities, food, systems change

Natasha Ratter, Environmental Funders Network How to Be a Good Environmental Fundraiser

Posted on 17 Oct 2023

Being a good environmental fundraiser goes beyond simply securing funds. In this blog, Natasha Ratter, explores core qualities of being a good environmental fundraiser and illustrates the importance of finding your voice, understanding your role in the bigger picture, prioritising relationships and wellbeing, and joining a supportive community.

Keywords: communities, fundraising, intersectionality, joined-up-thinking

Nani Jansen Reventlow, Systemic Justice Harnessing the law for climate justice: EFN 2023 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 13 Jul 2023

Nani Jansen Reventlow’s keynote talk during our annual retreat for funders this year was titled ‘Harnessing the law for climate justice.’ Nani laid out what long-term funding in strategic litigation can achieve and how to use it as a tool for climate justice.

Keywords: communities, investment, justice, strategic litigation, systems change

Nani Jansen Reventlow, Systemic Justice Five ways to become a better climate justice funder

Posted on 16 Dec 2022

To truly address the impact of the climate crisis, funding must be anti-racist and address social injustice. In this blog, Nani Jansen Reventlow sets out five ways to become a better climate justice funder.

Keywords: communities, effectiveness, intersectionality, justice

Stephanie Brobbey, Good Ancestor Movement and Aliyah Green, EFN Embodying a Regenerative Economy: EFN 2022 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 29 Jul 2022

Stephanie Brobbey’s informative keynote talk during our annual retreat for funders this year was titled ‘Embodying a Regenerative Economy’. Stephanie laid out some of the problems we face — climate change, biodiversity loss, extreme inequality — and argued that to understand them we need to interrogate systems, starting with the economy.

Keywords: communities, consumerism, economy, growth, investment, justice, limits, systems change

John Rose, The National Lottery Community Fund Making climate action everyone’s business at the UK’s leading community funder

Posted on 16 May 2022

As the largest funder of community activity in the UK, The National Lottery Community Fund plays a critical role supporting communities to unleash their energy and potential, especially on important issues such as the climate emergency. In this blog, John Rose discusses the work the National Lottery Community Fund is doing to take environmental action and support grant holders to be more sustainable and regenerative.

Keywords: climate change, collective-impact, communities, innovation

Katy Scholfield, Arcus Foundation Ancestral Land Rights of Indigenous Peoples Are Essential to Conservation

Posted on 6 May 2022

In this blog, Katy Scholfield aims to help build awareness and attend to the intersection of social and environmental justice to bring about increasing recognition and respect for the intrinsic value of all beings, human and nonhuman. This blog explores the Arcus Foundation's Great Apes and Gibbons Program goal of reconciling the well-being and resilience of local, Indigenous, and forest-dependent communities with wildlife conservation objectives.

Keywords: communities, conservation, human rights, indigenous peoples, intersectionality

Farhana Yamin EFN 2021 Retreat Keynote Talk

Posted on 8 Jul 2021

How can funders use the tools we have — our power, privileges and positions — to tackle those things that are most systemic? How can we support climate action that is truly intersectional, supporting both nature and people, and inclusive of everyone? Farhana put forward various suggestions in her keynote talk at EFN's annual retreat.

Keywords: climate change, communities, effectiveness, grassroots, justice

Patrik Ewe, Possible COVID-19: The view from Possible

Posted on 12 Aug 2020

When coronavirus hit, like many other organisations working in the sector, we were determined not to let it stall the momentum for action on climate change that has been built in the last year. We know there is no silver lining to coronavirus. But we also recognise the pandemic represents an utterly unprecedented global ‘moment of change’, in which the regular patterns of hundreds of millions of people’s lives have been forcefully interrupted, not just as individuals but as part of local and global communities. Capturing this moment provides an opportunity to create a domino effect of climate-positive behaviours in communities across the UK, writes Patrik Ewe from Possible.

Keywords: advocacy, climate change, communications, communities, COVID-19, fundraising, justice, policy work

Keyword “communities”