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.
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.”
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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
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.
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.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
DECEMBER 13, 2022
Jessie Bluedorn saw firsthand how an innovative small-scale approach to environmental justice could alter lives. By Sara Herschander. Courtesy of. That has inspired her grant making.
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
SEPTEMBER 6, 2024
Researchers argue that companies and nonprofits can prosper when they make sustainable, social, and environmental impact central to their missions. By Leonard L.
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