Recognition
Global Greengrants Fund received a four out of four star rating on Charity Navigator, an independent organization that rates non-profits. They received four stars on both efficiency and capacity.
Greengrants has been chosen by the Aveda Corporation as their global partner for Aveda's annual Earth month campaign. They work together to support clean water projects in communities where Aveda sources their ingredients. In 2007, $700,000 was raised though candle sales and customer donations from salons and spas. With this money, 186 projects were funded in 15 countries such as India, Brazil and Bulgaria.
To date, 27 Greengrants grantees and advisors have been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize, considered the "Nobel Prize of environmental activism." Notably, in 2009, Wanze Eduards and S. Hugo Jabini of Suriname "successfully organized their communities against logging on their traditional lands, ultimately leading to a landmark ruling for indigenous and tribal peoples throughout the Americas to control resource exploitation in their territories.". Other grantees have received the Condé Nast Traveler Environment Award; the J. Paul Getty Wildlife Conservation Prize; the Sting and Trudie Styler Award for Human Rights and the Environment; and the Reebok Human Rights Award, among others.
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