Author Archive:
Maria Amalia Souza
Book review: Ellas Poderosas: Historias y voces de mujeres de América Latina
Ellas Poderosas: Historias y voces de mujeres de América Latina (Stories and voices of women from Latin America) is more than a book. It is an account of hope and resistance during one of the …
Where are Brazil’s civil society funders?
MacKenzie Scott understood our needs in the fight to achieve social and environmental justice. We need Brazil’s philanthropists to do the same I’m starting this story with a heavy heart. Despite planning to bring new …
Local socio-environmental funds: Exporting social technology to preserve life
The CASA Socio-Environmental Fund was created to fund projects in the large South American regional biomes in an integrated way. After all, forests and rivers do not respect imaginary lines separating nations – yet their …
Connecting the dots after the annual EDGE Funders conference
Though I expected to be able to blog during those intense conference days, I realized I wouldn’t do it justice writing from the heat of the experience. Now, after my 20 plus hours from Barcelona …
Defending environmental rights: Funding priorities in the Global South and East
In December, the United Nations awarded its Equator Prize 2015 to two Munduruku leaders from the Brazilian Amazon in recognition of their struggle to protect ancestral territory and sacred rivers from a mega-dam. What caught …
