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…
Resourcing the Movement
2023 marks the 30th anniversary of our small grants program at Rainforest Action Network — Community Action Grants. Community Action Grants provides critical and rapid funding — sometimes the very…
The Power of Partnership
Our vision for change is interwoven within our very name. RAN’s network stretches across the globe, from the dense rainforests of Indonesia and the Amazon, to the frontline fights of…
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…
Help Us Fund the Axenon Ikanwe Grass-roots Radio Initiative
Meet Axenon Ikanwe! Rooted in the Amazonian city of Pucallpa, Peru, Axenon Ikanwe (pronounced ash-eh-non ee-kan-way) is an Indigenous radio program made by and for the Shipibo-Konibo peoples of the…
Supporting the Line 3 Pipeline Resistance
To fight back against the toxic Line 3 pipeline, RAN is supporting Indigenous groups and frontline communities leading the resistance through our small grants program.
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…