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Grantee Stories

One Organization Makes Strides in Caring for Animals and the Environment

In the heart of the Ozark mountains, just miles from the Buffalo River, lives the Human Society of Marion County, a no- kill shelter that is not only having an impact upon the lives of animals and people, they are having a profound impact on the environment as well....

When the Students Become the Teachers: Student-Led Ed

In the summer of 2020, Kerry Dolan, an assistant principal at a Chicago high school, received a letter addressed to the entire body of predominantly white teachers and administrators. Signed by over 100 mostly BIPOC students, the letter described their feelings of...

EcoPrácticas: Uplifting the New Voices of Environmental Advocacy in Venezuela

By 2015, 289 species were threatened with extinction in Venezuela, Libro Rojo de la Fauna Venezolana. “I believe in working towards the common good, and environmental advocacy allows me to contribute to the well being of the planet. I believe that even the smallest...

Life-Saving Liquid: How Sandip Sankar Ghosh Mobilized Young People to Create Hand Sanitizer in India’s Poorest Slums

Ghosh knew he had the opportunity to use his specialized knowledge to help the communities he had worked with for so long. His ingenious plan? Using the WHO’s gold standard recipe, he created his own hand sanitizer by mobilizing the youth in the Kolkata slums to help him.

Creating an Environmental Brigade in One of the Most Beautiful Places on Earth

Beatriz Carmena was a teenager when she fell madly in love with Nature. Intrigued by everything from erosion and restoration to how Nature maintains its natural order and balance, she decided to study environmental engineering. An internship in Oaxaca, Mexico where...

Africa & Beyond: One Girl’s Dream for the Deaf Community

“The world was created with so much diversity; that is its beauty. If we were all the same, it would be boring… colorless. What makes it colorful is the different people we meet.” - RebeccaOlatunji Ayodele Rebecca, founder of the I Can Sign project in Nigeria, was...

Providing Technology to Remote Villages in Nepal

Only 3% of children and youth in rural areas have access to computers and the internet, 2022 Nepal Education Fact Sheets by UNICEF.  “I am hopeful that the new generations want to contribute and give back to their communities, to their people and villages. This makes...

Going the Social Distance

Growing up, Jenna Bardroff’s best friend was a potbellied pig named Arnie. When she made the connection between what her parents were putting on her plate and her love for Arnie, she became a vegetarian at the age of five. She started college at the age of fourteen,...

Racheal Inegbedion: Building A More Inclusive Nigeria

Racheal Inegbedion was visiting a home for people with disabilities when she saw something that changed her life. “When someone visits, the residents sing a welcome song and share in a prayer with their guests,” remembers Racheal. “One of the young women, who had a...

An Invitation to Dream Big Opens the Door to Lasting Change

When the Napalese Lounge and Grille in Green Bay, Wisconsin decided to install a public art mural to foster pride and acceptance of LGBTQ+ people and host a modest celebration in its honor, they had hoped it would encourage cooperation and collaboration among...