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Global Greengrants makes small grants—ranging from just $500 to $5,000—to grassroots environmental groups working around the world. To ensure these small grants are tailored to the dynamic needs in social communities around the world, the fund uses a network of regional and global advisory boards made up of local scientists and activists, leaders of small networks and coalitions, teachers, journalists, engineers, physicians, and international environmental leaders to find grantees and make grant decisions.

These advisory boards are responsible for grantmaking in each of their regions, leveraging local expertise and creating a system that puts grant decisions in the hands of people closest to the action. They know the local culture, history, and current politics, enabling them to identify those in the area who will know how to use the money most effectively.

The result is that since it was founded in 1993 Global GreenGrants has been able to reliably channel funds seed funds to activists working in places with so few advocacy organizations that they would otherwise not be visible until they had already survived and matured.