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Why Nakba Day is different this year

May 15, 2024 By Niranjali Amerasinghe

76 years. Today marks 76 years since the displacement, depopulation, and despair of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians, otherwise known as the Nakba, meaning “the catastrophe.” 76 years later and effectively nowhere, and no one, in Gaza is safe. Airstrikes are intensifying, thousands are yet again fleeing, and aid delivery…

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Recommitting to Palestinian rights this Passover

April 22, 2024 By Meredith Slater

Tonight marks the first night of Passover – a celebration of the Biblical exodus of the Jewish people out of slavery and into the Promised Land. Passover happens to be my favorite Jewish holiday, as I have always found strong connections between the exodus of the ancient Israelites and the…

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A moment of clarity at the International Court of Justice

January 26, 2024 By Niranjali Amerasinghe

I woke up today to hundreds of messages about the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel. Some were calling it a victory, an unequivocal legal demand for Israel to prevent genocide in Gaza. Some were expressing disappointment that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) did not call for…

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Eight Reasons to Support a Ceasefire this Hanukkah

December 7, 2023 By Meredith Slater

The story of Hanukkah is one of the Jewish people fighting against a tyrannical ruler for the freedom to practice their religion. The Jews then rededicated their holy temple and witnessed a small amount of oil – meant to light the temple’s menorah for just one night – miraculously last…

Blog / Right to Food and Agriculture

The great approach of philanthropy in support of the agroecological movement

August 13, 2023 By Alberta Guerra

I was really impressed by this article by the Agroecology Fund and the Global Greengrants Fund about their partnership and approach to fostering agroecology through direct support to grassroots movements and Indigenous Peoples. This is the kind of support I would love to see predominant in philanthropy because it embeds…

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Unacceptable: We are lagging in the fight against hunger, as people pay the highest costs

July 12, 2023 By Alberta Guerra

The recent launch of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report confirms the alarming reality of increased hunger in some regions of the world, namely the Caribbean, Western Asia, and all regions of Africa, with women and people living in rural areas being the groups…

Blog / Climate Justice

California: Wildfires are making us uninsurable. Quebec: Hold my beer.

June 7, 2023 By Brandon Wu

As luck would have it, I was in New York City today with many of my colleagues, and our allies from TIAA Divest!, Ekō and others. We were protesting TIAA’s continued harmful investments in fossil fuels and farmland outside the Bloomberg Invest conference where multiple TIAA executives were speechifying. We…

Blog / Climate Justice

Climate finance: quantity matters, but so does quality

June 5, 2023 By Brandon Wu

Last week, Reuters released a major investigative piece on climate finance The authors examined 10% of climate finance flows reported by developed countries to the UN, finding that: “at least $3 billion spent not on solar panels or wind farms but on coal-fired power, airports, crime-fighting or other programs that…

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Parts of the U.S. are becoming uninsurable due to climate change

June 1, 2023 By Brandon Wu

One of the bigger stories of this past weekend came with the bland heading “California New Business Update” – State Farm, the biggest homeowner insurance company in California, is no longer accepting new homeowner or property insurance applications from anyone in California. The reasons? Rising construction costs, “rapidly growing catastrophe…

Blog / Politics & Economics

Reflections from a wedding conversation on poverty eradication

May 23, 2023 By Katherine Coe

At a wedding I attended recently, I fell into an interesting conversation with another guest. She asked me what I ‘do’ (somehow the words ‘for work’ are always implicit in this phrase, yet rarely spoken out loud), and I shared that I fundraise for an international human rights organization. I…

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Why Nakba Day is different this year

Recommitting to Palestinian rights this Passover

A moment of clarity at the International Court of Justice

Eight Reasons to Support a Ceasefire this Hanukkah

The great approach of philanthropy in support of the agroecological movement

Unacceptable: We are lagging in the fight against hunger, as people pay the highest costs

California: Wildfires are making us uninsurable. Quebec: Hold my beer.

Climate finance: quantity matters, but so does quality

Parts of the U.S. are becoming uninsurable due to climate change

Reflections from a wedding conversation on poverty eradication

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