Community
Action Grants
provide crucial funding for people fighting in their own communities to protect forests, fight climate change, and defend human rights.
Community
Small Grants CAN Have a Huge Impact
Indigenous and frontline communities suffer disproportionate impacts to their health, livelihood and culture from the effects of forest loss and global climate change and from the destructive extractive industries driving both. But they are ideally positioned to fight back.
Grant Recipients Winning on the Frontlines
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Forests that are well-protected are the ones that have Indigenous communities protecting them; not the ones given to companies for concessions.
Delima Silalahi Indigenous leader from the Pargamanan-Bitang Maria Community, Indonesia
We won’t give our land to anyone else, be it other villagers or any company. We won’t let it go until the last drop of our blood.
Tigang Jalung Farmer and forest defender from Long Isun, Indonesia
Our fight is not just a fight about oil. This is a fight about different ways of living. One that protects life and one that destroys life.
Nemonte Nenquimo Waorani Indigenous leader from the Ecuadorian Amazon
Our ancestors left the land for us. It’s our children and grandchildren’s place to get food in the future. That’s why we hold on.
Kristina Yeq Indigenous leader and forest defender from Long Isun, Indonesia
Rio Grande LNG and Texas LNG are invading the community, would desecrate our lands, bulldoze sacred sites, and harm our tribal members’ health and safety.
Juan Mancias Tribal Chairman of the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas
The mine will tear the heart out of our country, permanently destroying our ancestral homelands, as well as sites and species we have held sacred for generations.
Adrian Burragubba Wangan and Jagalingou Tribal elder, Australia
Our Strategy
Provide Direct Support to Grassroots Movements
Indigenous and frontline communities are the best stewards of the world’s rainforests and the best organizers against climate change.
Build Strong Relationships
RAN's Community Action Grants build strong networks of support for organizations in the Global South and challenge the legacies of colonialism replicated by funders in the Global North.
Follow the Lead of Frontline Communities
RAN does not have an agenda when redistributing funds; grantees decide how to best use funds. We believe that organizations in the Global South should come up with strategies for defending their territory.
RAN’s Community action Grants program has distributed more than 1,000 grants totaling over $8,000,000*
* including grants made through RAN’s partnership with Global Greengrants Fund
Grant Reports
Community Action Grants is a project of Rainforest Action Network
RAN works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.