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February 20, 2020

Deploying Finance Strategies To Win Justice and Change

Corporate capture of policy-making processes and hyper-partisanship means that traditional advocacy strategies are no longer sufficient to meet today’s escalating and intersectional crises. Movement leaders across […]
August 12, 2019

Time to Change the Way We Invest: Ellen Dorsey in Alliance Magazine

Wallace Global Fund Executive Director Ellen Dorsey penned an op-ed in Alliance Magazine, challenging foundations to examine the ways that their investments and corporate holdings are […]
July 9, 2019

Wallace Global Fund Supports The People’s Summit on Climate, Rights, and Human Survival

Wallace Global Fund joins Amnesty International, the United Nations Human Rights Office, the Center for International Environmental Law, Greenpeace, and other collaborative partners to support a […]
May 6, 2019

Wallace Global Fund Presents the Henry A. Wallace Award to the Sunrise Movement

May 2, 2019

Sunrise Movement

The intersectional and worker-focused Sunrise Movement has transformed the climate justice debate and made strides reminiscent of the New Deal era victories
September 27, 2018

WGF Grantees and Allies Launch Protect the Protest Taskforce

Earlier this month WGF grantees and allies launched the Protect the Protest Task Force in response to the accelerating use of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation […]
September 11, 2018

WGF Grantee Dr. Leyla Hussein Honored with Statue in London

We extend our congratulations to activist, filmmaker, writer and clinician Dr. Leyla Hussein on having been selected to be one of 25 statues that was erected to honor […]
September 11, 2018

Global Divest Announcement

On September 10th 2018, WGF co-sponsored the fourth global divestment announcement, with speakers including Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for […]
May 2, 2018

Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

The first Henry A. Wallace Award honored the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for its brave resistance to corporate power as they protested the Dakota Access pipeline
March 8, 2018

WGF RELEASES NEW REPORT: All the People, All the Places: A Landscape of Opportunity for Rural and Small Town Civic Engagement

In response to increasing concern among funders and advocates about the widening divide between rural and urban America, WGF has released All the People, All the […]
June 8, 2017

Wallace Global Fund Presents the Inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

On June 8th,  2017, Wallace Global Fund presented the inaugural Henry A. Wallace award to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe for its brave resistance in defending […]
May 12, 2017

Seventy-Third Anniversary of Henry A. Wallace’s “American Fascism” Op-ed

Scott Wallace, Wallace Global Fund Co-Chair and grandson of Henry A. Wallace, penned a gripping New York Times article remarking on Henry A. Wallace’s chilling warnings […]