We started as a small community fund and grew into a foundation that has stood beside tens of thousands of families through their hardest moments.
Address: Global Greengrants Fund Boulder, CO, United States, EIN - 84-1612422
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.
To fight poverty and support vulnerable communities by providing direct financial assistance for medical care, education, daily living, and emergencies — and by treating every applicant with the dignity their circumstances deserve.
A world where no one's future is decided by an unpaid bill — where opportunity, healthcare, and stability are within reach for every family, regardless of where they start.
We meet every story with empathy first, paperwork second.
We do what we say, and we say what our numbers actually show.
Every dollar's path from donor to beneficiary is published and open.
We report to our beneficiaries and donors, not just our board.
15 years in humanitarian program management across West Africa and North America.
Oversees fund allocation, audits, and the public transparency dashboard.
Leads the verification and review process for every applicant family.
Builds corporate and institutional alliances that expand our reach.
Read real stories of grants that changed the course of a family's year.