A urgência de abordar as questões ambientais globais nunca foi tão evidente, essa busca por um equilíbrio sustentável entre comunicades humanas e o meio ambienta se faz mais presente do que nunca.
From the center of the most progressive discussions about the direction of contemporary global philanthropy, a remarkable case of South-South collaboration emerges: the Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur. The Alliance of Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South (in Portuguese) is a pioneering network of local funds supporting community philanthropy operating in the Global South.
According to a mapping of independent donor organizations carried out by the Comuá Network in association with the pontAponte consultancy service, there are currently 31 organizations in Brazil supporting initiatives in the field of socio-environmental justice
Traditional, indigenous, quilombola, riverside communities, communities on the outskirts of large Brazilian cities and political minorities in general are the social groups most affected by climate change.
Between the 3rd and 5th of October, Nairobi, capital of Kenya, hosted the first WINGSForum post-COVID-19 pandemic. A global meeting of the WINGS philanthropy network, the event was co-organized by the African Philanthropy Network, also a partner of Rede Comuá under the Donate to Transform Program, and brought together 350 people from more than 50 countries under the motto “transforming philanthropy to transform the world".
In August 2022, IDIS (Institute for the Development of Social Investment) and Ipsos launched the Brazil 2022 Donation Survey, with the aim of bringing to light the donation landscape, which provides crucial information about the motivations, perceptions and expectations of donors and non-donors in the country.
This text aims to present some reflections on the research results, highlighting the aspects that caught our attention, pointing to gaps and future paths to deepen the study and its implications for the culture of donation in Brazil. Furthermore, we seek to offer a perspective on how community philanthropy and socio-environmental justice can contribute to this discussion.
Celebrating World Environment Day and LGBTQIA+ Pride Month, a reflection on how community philanthropy for socio-environmental justice supports LGBTQIA+ people facing climate change.
By Yasmin Morais and Mica Peres
An estimated 12% of all Brazilians, or about 19 million people, identify themselves as LGBTQIA+, however, contrary to what we might assume when presented with the demographic data of a population, this is not official data produced by a Brazilian government agency such as the IBGE (in English, Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics). This estimate is the result of a study developed by Unesp and USP, published in Nature Scientific Reports, since the IBGE only began collecting data on sexual orientation in Brazil in 2019, and even so, in a highly experimental manner, excluding any aspect of gender identity or sexualities beyond homosexuality and bisexuality.
So, how can we know how many we are, where we are, our level of education? How can we know what affects us, what we need, what rights to claim?
A partir de uma visão interseccional, a filantropia comunitária olha para como as mudanças climáticas afetam diferentes grupos sociais, como pessoas LGBTQIA+ que também são pretas, indígenas, com deficiência, etc, e que afeta de maneiras distintas cada território, cada condição socioeconômica.
By Fernanda Lopes
It is well known that the climate crisis poses substantial risks to health, food production, water supply, ecosystems, energy, security and infrastructure. Although climate change affects the entire planet, a part of society is disproportionately affected by social, economic, political, environmental and sociocultural issues. Both crisis and change exacerbate existing inequalities and exclusions resulting from intersecting histories of colonialism, racism, oppression and discrimination.
In Brazil, 82.5% of the population, estimated at 212.7 million people by IBGE in 2021, resides in urban areas. Urban space is segregated, and in areas characterized by housing in unsuitable conditions for housing and a lack of fundamental infrastructure services, the majority of the resident population is black.
By Regilon Matos
With the aim of raising awareness and training youth on environmental issues, to reduce the effects of global warming and ensure climate balance, the French Embassy in partnership with the Casa Socioambiental Fund and a network of organizations, will hold the third edition of LAB Jovens (Laboratório Ambiental Brasil Jovens), a program that mobilizes young people between 18 and 26 years old for support and training, with the support of tools, mentoring and all necessary support to develop action projects in their territories, and in the end the opportunity to receive support from a seed fund. The journey is 100% online and free, and I, Regilon Matos, had the opportunity to participate in the first edition in 2021.
The Casa Fund is dedicated to the field of socio-environmental philanthropy, making resources reach directly into the hands of the real guardians of ecosystems, in order to promote sustainable development, giving groups more autonomy and protagonism. Therefore, supporting youth projects is enhancing the project's action as they are able to bring together a huge diversity of ideas and mobilize a greater number of engaged people, in addition to a focus on innovative actions and connected with other more contemporary forms provided by youth protagonism. And the Casa Fund's support for the program's Seed Fund is in line with our mission of supporting collective initiatives and encouraging young people's activism to be awakened by bringing other forms of action to the socio-environmental justice agenda.
