Grantmaking Pillars
Our primary focus areas.
Pangea works with grassroots organizations that are embedded in local communities and engaged in work that addresses the self-identified needs of the community. For more than 20 years we have worked with, and have listened to our grant partners who know best how to effectively address the challenges they face.
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Our pillars represent the four primary focus areas of our grant making: Climate & Environmental Justice, Educating Future Generations, Gender Equity, and Indigenous Rights.
Climate & Environmental Justice
Educating Future Generations
Gender
Equity
Indigenous
Rights
Climate & Environmental Justice
Example: Voces y Manos promotes resilience to climate change in rural communities near Rabinal, Guatemala. They provide technical assistance and support to farmers in order to transition to agroecology in a region where the rains now come unpredictably and with less frequency.
Their in-school program works with students to recover and strengthen the ancestral agroecological knowledge of the Maya Achí people, learn adaptations to climate change, as well as sustainable agricultural practices.
Educating Future Generations
Example: Cambodia Indigenous Youth Association (CIYA) was established by a group of Indigenous students who came to Phnom Penh for their higher education. The group encourages other Indigenous youth to pursue their studies, from primary level to the university level, and to share each other’s culture, traditions, and knowledge so they have a greater capacity to support the needs of their communities.
CIYA supports youth initiatives such as savings groups, art groups, animal husbandry, cultivation, crafts, and ecotourism.
Gender Equity
Example: Cambodian Indigenous Women Association (CIWA) is committed to gender equity and the protection of fundamental rights of indigenous women. Their goal is building the capacity of indigenous women to lead and promote women’s representation at both the local and national level.
Indigenous Rights
Example: UNOSJO has defended indigenous rights in the villages of Mexico’s Sierra Juarez mountains for nearly 30 years. They are effective in educating youth on violence against women, advocating to protect indigenous corn varieties, and maintaining the mountain roads with their own fleet of construction vehicles.
