By Miriam Anne Frank, Foundations Relations Manager, Amazon Watch In 2018, during an informal meeting between Leila Salazar-López, Amazon Watch’s (AW) Executive Director; Lourdes Inga, Executive Director of International Funders…
By Danielle Fuller-Wimbush, Director of Partner Support and Grantmaking, the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC). Please see the original version of this blog post at the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC)…
By Sonja Swift, Co-director of the Windrose Fund, trustee for Swift Foundation and board member of International Funders for Indigenous Peoples, Community Agroecology Network and Oakland Institute. When my Danish…
by Nick Lunch, co-founder at InsightShare “We need to have our language back as a matter of pride, because if we don’t have our language, we are forever dependent on…
by Indigenous Climate Action staff At Indigenous Climate Action (ICA) we believe that Indigenous peoples are the keepers of valuable knowledge necessary to address the climate crisis and that by…
by Salote Soqo, Senior Partnership Officer, Climate Justice & Crisis Response, Unitarian Universalist Service Committee (UUSC) During the First Peoples Convening on Climate-Forced Displacement, which brought together over sixty First…
Photo Essay by Rucha Chitnis “The first step for philanthropists is to educate themselves and begin the process of decolonizing. There’s so much imposition of narratives and assumptions upon all…
Story and photos by Rucha Chitnis. Note: This story was originally published in Cultural Survival Quarterly Institutional philanthropy, in a nutshell, is a Western construct. Often it can seem transactional, likened…
By Ashley Hernandez IFIP’s strategic framework hopes to expand the sphere of funders and collaborative action among donors and Indigenous Peoples to advance issues of importance to Indigenous communities. The…