Indigenous Land Rights: A Pathway to Preserving Tropical Forests
Around the world, Indigenous communities are on the frontlines of defending the planet’s remaining tropical forests, and their victories are becoming powerful examples of how land rights can drive environmental…
Community Action Grants: Providing Crucial, Rapid Funding for Communities Fighting Injustice
Since 1993, RAN has distributed over $8 million through more than 1,200 grants to Indigenous and frontline communities. In the last two years alone, RAN provided $1.6 million in support…
RAN’s 2024 Community Action Grants Supported Key Alliances Fighting for Climate Justice
Although 2024 brought significant challenges for the climate movement worldwide—ranging from the rise of the global far right to devastating forest fires from California to Patagonia and rising global temperatures—Indigenous and frontline communities remained resilient and unwavering, continuing to lead the movement for climate justice.
RAN Supports BIPOC Activists At Climate Week Through Community Action Grants And Gets Ready for COP16
Activists from around the globe took to the streets of New York City the week of September 22nd in protests and events commemorating Climate Week 2024.
Profiles in Community Action: RAN’s Community Action Grants Program in 2023
As the real-world impacts of hurricanes, wildfires, droughts and sea level rise continue to accelerate, it is more clear than ever that the people who did the least to contribute…
2022: A Year in Review
The past year marked a record high in Rainforest Action Network’s (RAN) 30 years of providing Community Action Grant (CAG) funding to frontline communities and grassroots initiatives fighting to keep…
Community Action Grants to Fight Line 3
The landmark release of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)’s Sixth Assessment Report in August sounded the alarm for the global community, confirming ‘unequivocally’ that human influence has warmed…
Five Grassroots Organizations Elevating Frontline Voices
As RAN and many other organizations think through how to incorporate equity and inclusion into all facets of our work, it is more clear than ever we need to make…
Win for longtime Indigenous allies defending ancestral lands
The Achuar and Wampis of the Peruvian Amazon halt major oil extraction project on ancestral territory.
Stories of Inspired Resistance:
By any measure, 2020 has been a dramatically unprecedented year, forcing us all to adapt to new challenges while facing the grim realities of racial injustice, the violence of right-wing…