Environmental Related Topics 
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
JULY 9, 2024
A pioneer in supporting environmental-justice groups, she will retire from the Kresge Foundation in September. By Jim Rendon Courtesy of The Kresge Foundation Lois DeBacker was among the early proponents of making grants to environmental-justice groups — first at the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation and later at the Kresge Foundation.
Candid
APRIL 25, 2023
As equity emerges as the lynchpin of decades of investment for generations of impact, Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is clear on its role to facilitate the shift from discussion to tangible action and offers deep data to affect the course of racial equity as a relevant lens for environmental philanthropy.
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NonProfit Quarterly
JULY 27, 2023
A new study, published June 12 in Nature Sustainability , has found that environmental defenders who are women face violence for their actions. Grist documents one such story, that of Sandra Liliana Pena, a human rights and environmental defender in Columbia. Violence against women environmental defenders is largely underestimated.”
NonProfit Quarterly
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
The water crisis in Jackson is also part of a larger set of interconnected injustices that reveal the complexity of environmental racism. In that same year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found the city had at least 2,300 unauthorized sanitary sewer overflows in the previous five years.
NonProfit Quarterly
JANUARY 12, 2023
In schools that have raised environmental awareness in their classrooms, environmental and climate justice remain missing perspectives. Together, they created a college-level virtual course entitled “Environmental Studies and Justice” to expose 11th and 12th graders to the intersections of climate justice and environmental science.
NonProfit Quarterly
AUGUST 10, 2023
The report Examining Disparities in Environmental Grantmaking: Where the Money Goes written by Dorceta E. Taylor and Molly Blondell surveyed over 30,000 environmental and public health grants distributed by 220 foundations, which awarded approximately $4.9 billion across three years—from 2015 to 2017.
NonProfit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2023
He has written a string of articles for The Nation , Esquire , and TIME about the importance of environmental justice in his home state, a place where he understands all too well both the impulse to leave and the urge to stay and help. That’s kind of easy, because I was already kind of doing that, but just generally for environmental causes.
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