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

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

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

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The American Climate Corps is now hiring

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

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

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Activists say draft electricity plan will deepen energy poverty.

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160+ Philanthropists Are Demanding Charity Law Reform

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

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

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The Times Require New Leadership

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

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

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

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UNDP Compliance Unit Recommends Withdrawal from MMSEZ

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

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

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Time For Charity Reform!

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Huge Victory! Juana Doe v. IFC

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Hands Off Social Security

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Justice Centered, Community-Owned Clean Energy

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Inside Philanthropy: The Most Powerful Heirs in Philanthropy

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

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

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

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

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

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Everjoice Win Named Executive Director of Shine Campaign

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Read Media Matters’ Latest Report on Facebook and Trump

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WGF Statement on Violence and Systemic Racism Within Criminal Legal System

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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WGF Grantees and Allies Launch Protect the Protest Taskforce

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WGF Grantee Dr. Leyla Hussein Honored with Statue in London

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Global Divest Announcement

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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

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Divest-Invest Movement Surpasses $5 Trillion USD Threshold

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