Focus Areas
Greengrants focuses its resources in seven major issue areas: biodiversity, climate change, energy, indigenous peoples, sustenance, water, and women.
Greengrants launched a designated climate fund in June 2010 in partnership with 1% for the Planet. Through this program, groups will receive $500–5,000 to
- Develop alternative energy sources
- Protect forests and plant trees
- Train farmers on resilient agricultural techniques, and
- Address climate change and its effects around the globe.
Read more about this topic: Global Greengrants Fund
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