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…
By Lourdes Inga International Funders for Indigenous Peoples (IFIP) plays a critical role in convening, educating, connecting and expanding collaborative action among funders and Indigenous Peoples to advance issues of…
This year IFIP launched three briefs for funders on Indigenous defenders in Russia, Latin America and the Pacific Islands. We collaborated with advocacy groups and activists that have worked in…
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…
One of the most salient evolutions from the United Nation’s Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is a commitment to leaving no one behind, human…
By Christian Poirier, Program Director at Amazon Watch The election of the extreme right-wing politician Jair Bolsonaro to Brazil’s presidency represents a profound setback for human rights and ecological preservation…