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Mission critical: how third sector organisations can play to their strengths in responding to the climate emergency

Nick Addington, William Grant Foundation Mission critical: how third sector organisations can play to their strengths in responding to the climate emergency

Posted on 24 Mar 2022

Third sector organisations have a critical contribution to make in response to the climate emergency. But reducing their carbon footprints isn’t it. In this blog, Nick Addington offers some thoughts about a possible framework to help organisations think more broadly about their role and recognise opportunities to help achieve a sustainable future.

Keywords: climate change, collective-impact, effectiveness, grassroots, joined-up-thinking

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

Amy Forshaw, Whitley Fund for Nature COVID-19: The view from Whitley Fund for Nature

Posted on 31 Jul 2020

Whitley Fund for Nature supports grassroots conservation leaders in the Global South, for whom the effects of the pandemic have been profound. Across our network of over 200 conservationists in more than 80 countries, many are facing delays to urgent projects, reduced income from livelihoods based on ecotourism, or an increase in harmful activities by people who are struggling to survive. But our winners never cease to inspire us with their ability to adapt to challenging circumstances, writes Amy Forshaw from Whitley Fund for Nature.

Keywords: biodiversity, climate change, communities, conservation, COVID-19, grassroots, women

Eva Rehse and Jasleen Mahal, Global Greengrants Fund COVID-19: The view from Global Greengrants Fund

Posted on 13 Jul 2020

How are grassroots climate initiatives around the world turning the significant challenges brought by COVID-19 into unprecedented opportunities to advance the climate movement? Eva Rehse and Jasleen Mahal present insights from partners across the Global Greengrants Fund network, who have identified three key ways funders can provide much-needed support; and bring hope that the pandemic might just have given us the best chance we will have to turn things around - for both people and planet.

Keywords: climate change, COVID-19, diversity, food, funding overseas, grassroots

Eva Rehse, Global Greengrants Fund Why we will be striking on 20 September

Posted on 9 Sep 2019

I am excited by the powerful potential of youth to protect our planet. But I also understand that it is not fair to rest the responsibility of fixing the mistakes of older generations, including my own, on the shoulders of today’s young people. That's why, on 20 September, my colleagues from Global Greengrants Fund UK and I will be joining the Global Climate Strike. If you are in London, why not find us and fellow EFN members and march together?

Keywords: advocacy, climate change, grassroots, youth

Eva Rehse and Ursula Miniszewski, Global Greengrants Fund The State of Funding for Women’s Environmental Action

Posted on 8 Mar 2018

Women around the globe are at the forefront of addressing the impacts of climate change and environmental degradation; designing, implementing, and scaling up their own solutions. Yet, as a new mapping report by Global Greengrants Fund and Prospera International Network of Women’s Funds reveals, only 0.2 percent of all foundation funding focuses explicitly on women and the environment. This means that there is a great opportunity for funders committed to protecting our planet to improve their interventions by supporting compelling women-led solutions.

Keywords: effectiveness, funding overseas, grassroots, women

Harriet Williams, JMG Foundation Mind the Gap: A rough guide to the allocation of forest grants

Posted on 10 Jan 2017

EFN’s Forest Funders Group has developed a methodology for mapping forest-related grants. The aim is to profile the flow of forest grants around specific issues, geographies and theories of change, and in doing so help funders to gain a better sense of forest philanthropy in the round, and reflect on the place of their portfolios within it. This trial analysis of a subset of grants offers some tantalising points for reflection.

Keywords: conservation, deforestation, effectiveness, funding overseas, grassroots, mapping

Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders

Halina Ward and Tom Bigg, International Institute for Environment and Development Civil society organisations in the global South and disruptive change: implications for funders

Posted on 20 Dec 2016

Over the last year and a half or so, the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) has been working to understand how leaders of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in the South experience, and engage with, disruptive change that has impacts on their organisations. Now a new report looks at the implications of disruptive change in Southern CSOs for funders.

Keywords: closing space, effectiveness, funding overseas, grassroots, innovation

Eva Rehse, Global Greengrants Fund Killed for Protecting the Environment – What funders can do in the wake of Berta Cáceres’ murder

Posted on 4 Apr 2016

The recent assassinations of internationally renowned Honduran environmental activist Berta Cáceres and her colleague Nelson García have shone a tragic spotlight on the dangers facing those defending their land and traditional ways of life from powerful government and corporate interests. What can funders do to support environmental campaigners under threat? How can we keep our partners safe and ensure that their vital fight for their basic needs, and some of the world’s most endangered habitats, can continue?

Keywords: funding overseas, grassroots, justice

Eva Rehse Environmental Funding after COP21: Five discussions we need to continue

Posted on 14 Jan 2016

How can environmental funders effectively help build climate resilience and support the transition to a carbon-free world? What role should philanthropy play in mechanisms like the Green Climate Fund? And what does this mean for our business as usual? To address and discuss these questions, almost 200 environmental grantmakers met during COP21 in Paris, hosted by Fondations et Climat and the French Foundation Centre. Over the course of four intense days, five dominant discussions emerged.

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

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