The nature that upholds all life is protected every day by Indigenous Peoples and local communities around the world. Their leadership is essential to a healthy planet and a just future. As leaders gathered at St James’ Palace to discuss how momentum towards COP30 can channel pledges into action, Synchronicity Earth calls on funders to [...]
If we want to create a liveable future for all beings, it’s vital we listen to Indigenous voices, which too often go unheard. That’s why we hosted a Listening Session at The Sidebar alongside the Skoll World Forum, creating a space for influential individuals to pass the microphone to Indigenous representatives, and instead take [...]
A new report advises how private funders can better support Indigenous Peoples, women, and youth, in light of governmental aid cuts.
During New York Climate Week, Maliasili and Synchronicity Earth launched a report ‘From Pledges to Practice: Shifting Conservation Funding Approaches to Better Support Local African Organizations’.
Given the many challenges of funding, pooling resources so funders can work together is opening a collaborative future for environmental philanthropy.
In 2021, at the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, a group of environmental conservation donors made a historic $1.7 billion pledge to support Indigenous Peoples' and local communities' forest guardianship. But getting conservation funding to lndigenous or local community-led groups can be a challenge, particularly for larger funders. Commissioned by the Ford Foundation on behalf [...]
“Money earmarked for Indigenous people that sits in a bank because of worries about Indigenous ‘capacity’ is water sitting in a locked fire hydrant while a city burns down because you’re worried the firefighters can’t handle the job.” This is how Tapestry Institute’s Standing Our Ground for the Land: An Indigenous Philanthropy describes a key [...]
There is an urgent need for increased long-term funding to support effective ocean conservation action. Mainstream ocean conservation efforts struggle to halt and reverse the decline in ocean health, while the ocean’s most reliable custodians—the people and communities who have long depended on it for sustenance—have often been overlooked and disenfranchised in efforts to [...]
“The most important things in the world that need doing cannot be done by large organizations. They will be done by many, sometimes hundreds, sometimes even thousands of smaller groups.” So said Andrew Steer, CEO of the Bezos Earth Fund, when the new fund made a pledge to spend $10 billon to tackle climate [...]
With a wave of new pledges of large grants to environmental organisations, as funders, we need to reflect on how our philanthropy can be improved. Building trust between donors and grantees plus reshaping the donor community so it can better support the organisations working on the ground are the foundations of a philosophy and [...]
