FORTUNE site visit, 2024, Thailand. Photo: Emily Ho
Each year, Pangea Giving evaluates current and potential grant partners for new funding to be provided. This March, Pangea awarded 17 grant partners a combined total of $118,100! The grant pool is divided into regions including East Africa, Latin America, and SE Asia. Pangea members cultivate relationships with grant partners over several months, or more often over years of continuous partnership. Often, partners are referred by trusted advisors in the region or other grantees. Pangea does not take unsolicited grant requests.
Pangea believes in trust-based philanthropy and follows these principles:
- We support the self-defined needs of local communities
- We build the capacity of community organizations and leader to meet those needs
- We make grants in places where there are high levels of poverty and vulnerability to human rights abuses
- We believe that lasting change is built from the ground up
Read more about the grant guidelines and our Pangea giving circle program here.
SE Asia Grant Awards
Cambodia Indigenous Women Association (CIWA), Cambodia
Grant Pillar(s): Indigenous Rights; Gender Equity
Grant Goals: Develop a network of indigenous women associations; facilitate women empowerment and their representation at the local and nation level; and provide legal assistance to indigenous women and rights-defenders.
2024 Grant: $8,500 (previous grant: $8,500)
Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA), Cambodia
Grant Pillar(s): Indigenous Rights
Grant Goals: Support the development of indigenous youth associations from the local to national level; support youth initiatives (savings group, art group, animal husbandry, cultivation, crafts, and ecotourism); organize youth groups and facilitate them to join the community activities; and build youth leadership capacity.
2024 Grant: $8,500 (previous grant: $8,000)
FORTUNE, Fang, Chiang Mai province, Thailand
Grant Pillar(s): Refugee and Migrant Rights
Grant Goals: Provide support to Myanmar Refugees and migrant workers living in Thailand.
2024 Grant: $8,700 (previous grant: $3,300)
Green Community Volunteers (“GCV”), Laos
Grant Pillar(s): Indigenous Rights; Climate and Environmental Justice
Grant Goals: Build leadership capacity for indigenous youth and women to advocate for environmental issues, land rights, and food security. Provide training on sustainable agriculture and women’s health issues.
2024 Grant: $6,100 (previous grant: $5,800)
Muditar, Myanmar
Grant Pillar(s): Indigenous Rights; Gender Equity; Economic Empowerment
Grant Goals: Continue to develop and strengthen the Village Development Model; empowerment of women through strengthening the capacity of self-help groups including a women-led saving fund; support development of reproductive health programs and income generating projects.
2024 Grant: $6,200 (previous grant: $9,000)
Visit our SE Asia Grant Partner page for more information about these organizations.
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Latin America Grant Awards
Asociación Comunidad la Esperanza (AC Esperanza), Guatemala
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth
Grant Goals: Quality secondary education in a marginalized community where gang violence, trafficking, early school abandonment, and illiteracy are common. Students learn academics, plus leadership, self-esteem, and non-violent life skills.
2024 Grant: $2,000 (previous grant: $6,000)
MUSOR A.C., Mexico
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Gender Equity
Grant Goals: Reproductive health education for marginalized groups, including gender-based violence prevention, teen pregnancy prevention (esp. in indigenous and rural areas with few government services), diabetes, breast cancer screening, pap smears, and domestic violence prevention. Provide access to legal abortions information and services, and distribution of low-cost reproductive health products.
2024 Grant: $10,000 (previous grant: $9,000)
Taa’ Pi’t, Guatemala
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Indigenous Rights; Climate and Environmental Justice
Grant Goals: Educate Tzutujil Maya women and children in nutrition, health, culture, sustainable farming, women’s income generation, and environmental stewardship.
2024 Grant: $10,000 (previous grant: $14,000)
UNOSJO, Mexico
Grant Pillar(s): Indigenous Rights; Gender Equity; Empower Women and Youth; Climate and Environmental Justice
Grant Goals: Intersectional work in defense of land rights against mining interests, training isolated rural communities in improving economic independence by bringing agriculture products to market, defending Zapotec language and culture, shifting attitudes of men and women to reduce gender violence, and encourage women to have a larger role in decision-making at all levels.
2024 Grant: $10,000 (previous grant: $9,000)
Visit our Latin America Grant Partner page for more information about these organizations.
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East Africa Grant Awards
Child Empowerment Program (CEP), Uganda
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth
Grant Goals: Create sustainability of women’s empowerment savings model by establishing a women’s SACCO (credit union). Enhance women’s vocational training by offering a higher level of certification.
2024 Grant: $7,000 (previous grant: $9,500)
East Africa Leadership Forum, Kenya
Grant Pillar(s): Leadership Development
Grant Goals: Leaders support each other in problem solving and developing collaborative exchanges of knowledge.
2024 Grant: $4,000 (previous grant: $3,800)
Ewang’an Olosho Le Suswa (Ewang’an), Kenya
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Climate and Environmental Justice
Grant Goals: Train 60 women and 20 youth in 3 villages to improve food security and develop resilience through gender and entrepreneurship training.
2024 Grant: $5,000 (previous grant: $3,000)
Playmaker Theatre, Kenya
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Gender Equity
Grant Goals: Train youth confectionary and performing arts to start their own enterprises. Community education on gender equity and democratic participation.
2024 Grant: $4,000 (previous grant: $6,900)
Solidarity Eden Foundation, Uganda
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Refugee Survival and Mental Health
Grant Goals: Provide an adult literacy program for refugees, and provide business literacy, vocational training and social enterprise training for women refugees.
2024 Grant: $9,000 (previous grant: $5,000)
Ufanisi Women’s Group (UWG), Kenya
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth
Grant Goals: Expand their sweet potato product enrichment business and open a market stall in Bungoma.
2024 Grant: $6,600 (previous grant: $5,600)
Women In Sustainable Enterprise (WISE), Kenya
Grant Pillar(s): Empowering Women and Youth; Climate and Environmental Justice
Grant Goals: Leadership development of girls and technology-based skills for women to start their own businesses.
2024 Grant: $6,500 (previous grant: $5,000)
Visit our East Africa Grant Partner page for more information about these organizations.
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