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Big oil privately acknowledged efforts to downplay climate crisis, joint committee investigation finds

Don’t Abandon Civic Engagement in Small Towns and Rural Places

Woodside investors vote down climate plan, rebuking Australia’s top gas producer

The American Climate Corps is now hiring

Africans Rising Honored With The 2024 African Advancement Award For Social Justice

Youth voting organization looks to mobilize voters on Discord using AI chat-bot

Activists say draft electricity plan will deepen energy poverty.

160+ Philanthropists Are Demanding Charity Law Reform

Just 57 companies linked to 80% of greenhouse gas emissions since 2016

Six Questions with Ellen Dorsey, Who Helped Convince Philanthropies to Divest

The Times Require New Leadership

In a first, West African country moves toward ending ban on female genital cutting

Tax the Rich, Save the World. It Is That Simple.

Over 230 million girls and women alive today have been subjected to female genital mutilation — UNICEF

UNDP Compliance Unit Recommends Withdrawal from MMSEZ

Announcement of Leadership Transition from the Wallace Global Fund Board of Directors

Transforming corporate accountability for human rights and environmental impacts in the EU

Time For Charity Reform!

Huge Victory! Juana Doe v. IFC

Hands Off Social Security

Justice Centered, Community-Owned Clean Energy

In A Move that Directly Threatens the Future of Free and Fair Elections, Supreme Court Agrees To Consider Redistricting Case, Moore v. Harper

Supreme Court Severely Limits EPA’s Ability to Regulate Power Plant Emissions, Dealing a Blow to Climate Change Efforts

Mother Jones: The Supreme Court Is Waging a Full-Scale War on Modern Life

NPR: Poor People’s Campaign Rallies in Washington To Mobilize Low-income Voters

World’s Biggest Oil & Gas Companies Poised To Move Forward With “Carbon Bomb” Projects

Op-Ed in Chronicle of Philanthropy: In Aftermath of Buffalo Shooting, Supporting Grassroots Groups Is the Most Effective Way to Fight White Supremacy

Sunrise Movement Organizer Adah Crandall: “Hey Adults, the Climate Movement Needs You”

Insurance Journal: Activist Group Says U.S. Insurers Trying to Weaken Climate-Related Regulations

Bloomberg: Oil and Gas Sector’s New Climate Policies Still Overheat the Planet – Report

The Athletic: ‘Footballers can influence young men to start having a discussion’ – the fight against FGM in Africa

University of Cape Town Divesting from Fossil Fuels, Investing in a Green Economy

Rev. William Barber II, Leader of WGF Grantee the Poor People’s Campaign, Profiled in NYT

WaPo: Student climate activists from Yale, Stanford, Princeton, MIT and Vanderbilt file legal complaints to compel divestment

As You Sow and Corporate Knights Release the Latest Clean200™ Companies Report

openDemocracy: EU urged to halt flow of ‘dark money’ into groups opposing equal rights

Orchid Project: What price for a world free from Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting?

“Young People on the State of the Nation” Survey Results Are In

Inside Philanthropy: The Most Powerful Heirs in Philanthropy

Inside Philanthropy: Why Philanthropy Continues to Underfund Rural America–and What Grantmakers Can Do

Earthlife Africa Johannesburg and Partners Call On One of South Africa’s Biggest GHG Emitters To Divest From Fossil Fuels

Divestment Nears the $40 Trillion USD Mark, as Reported in Nonprofit Quarterly

WaPo: Conspiracy theories are an election security threat, new report says

“We’re calling on governments and corporations to act on climate aggressively” -Ellen Dorsey Quoted in AP

Everjoice Win Named Executive Director of Shine Campaign

Read Media Matters’ Latest Report on Facebook and Trump

Read the Brennan Center for Justice’s Most Recent Update on Voting Rights Attacks in the States

Ellen Dorsey featured in Fire Drill Friday’s Mother’s Day virtual rally

Ellen Dorsey Quoted in FT: Most big investors sceptical over oil majors’ green ambitions

WGF Movement Partner ILSR Co-Director Stacy Mitchell is Profiled in The New York Times

“Activism gives you hope” -Ellen Dorsey interviewed by Mongabay

Scott Wallace signs letter urging Biden to create Civilian Conservation Corps, include the Jobs for Economic Recovery Act in new legislation -Politico

Read Rashad Robinson’s Piece in USA Today on the Racist History of the Filibuster

Inside Philanthropy: Meet 3 Founders Backing the Grassroots Opposition to Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

Scott Wallace: Add 200 billion to the next stimulus package — at zero cost to taxpayers

WGF’s Scott Wallace Joins Global Citizen for Global Goal Live

NYT: Leading Foundations Pledge to Give More, Hoping to Upend Philanthropy

WGF Statement on Violence and Systemic Racism Within Criminal Legal System

Philanthropy News Digest: Five Questions for Ellen Dorsey of Wallace Global Fund

Inside Philanthropy: It’s Time for an Emergency Charity Stimulus

Scott Wallace: How To Trigger $200 Billion in Coronavirus Aid at No Cost to Taxpayers? Tap foundations.

The Chronicle of Philanthropy: How 25 Big Grant Makers Are Responding to the Covid Crisis

Wallace Global Fund to Spend 20% This Year, Announces Poor People’s Campaign as 2020 Henry A. Wallace Award Recipient

“Now Is the Time For Philanthropy to Give More, Not Less” -Ellen Dorsey and Aaron Dorfman in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

“Philanthropy Must Declare A Climate Emergency” -Ellen Dorsey in The Chronicle of Philanthropy

Climate Campaigners Turn Their Fire on the Financial World: Ellen Dorsey Quoted in FT

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

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

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

WGF Grantees and Allies Launch Protect the Protest Taskforce

WGF Grantee Dr. Leyla Hussein Honored with Statue in London

Global Divest Announcement

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

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

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

Wallace Global Fund Fires President Trump’s Law Firm Over Conflict of Interest

Wallace Global Fund Board Member, Johanna Dominguez, Speaks to Henry A. Wallace’s Tradition of Activism

Wallace Global Fund Co-Sponsors the First Ever End Violence Against Girls Summit on FGM/C

Wallace Global Fund joins founding cohort of foundations, faith groups, and development organizations to announce the development of new campaign: Shine: Investing in Energy Access for All

Divest-Invest Movement Surpasses $5 Trillion USD Threshold

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