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Better Climate Funding Means Centering Local and Indigenous Communities

Stanford Social Innovation Review

Most grants are structured around relatively short-term projects, with limitations on investment in core organizational costs, and often significant transaction costs to both manage and access funding. The Time Is Now The new global focus on Indigenous and community land rights and stewardship has been decades in the making.

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Leading to Local

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It can mean supporting networking and collaboration across local entities rather than competitive funding mechanisms. Moreover, by replacing an application-based process with a nominations process, and by funding a cohort of recipients, they are able to replace a competitive experience with a collaborative one.