Stories & Impact

Pangea Celebrates Successful Relaunch and Grant Cycle

After spending time in Northern Thailand the Pangea site visit team traveled to Laos and visited with partner The Association of Green ("TAG"). Visiting a small farm harvesting bok choy outside of Vientiane, Laos with TAG  TAG’s mission is to support, educate and encourage farmers and small farmers’ groups (such as cooperative farms) to engage in sustainable, environmentally sound and financially viable farming practices throughout Laos. Their goal is to help small farmers i

In January 2026, several Pangea members and their travel partners spent a day with Fortune, a small grassroots organization located in Fang District in Northern Thailand. This was Pangea's second site visit with Fortune. You can read more about the first visit from early 2024 in this blog post . Three of the four Pangea group had been on the 2024 site visit, while this was the first site visit trip for the author of this post. Sharing lunch with many of the Fortune team at

Betsy Hale, chair of Pangea’s Latin America Pod, shares her experiences and insights gained from a site visit conducted in October 2025. This past October, I had the opportunity to conduct a site visit to our grant partner UNOSJO which is in the Sierra Norte region of Oaxaca. Deep Roots in Guelatao I spent a wonderful day in Guelatao , a town famous as the birthplace of the revolutionary leader Benito Juarez who was President of Mexico for multiple terms beginning in 1858. Th

Jules Mayele, Executive Director of Solidarity Eden Foundation with members of Pangea. Did you know that 305 million  people around the world live outside their home countries? The reasons for their migration vary but are frequently the result of political conflict, economic hardship, ethnic persecution, and climate stress among other factors. Refugees face significant barriers to successful resettlement including trauma, language and cultural differences, as well as access t

Visit with FORTUNE school, Thailand. Photo: Emily Ho Periodically, Pangea Giving “Pod” committees, composed of members interested in a particular geographic area, organize site visits to meet with existing grantees and prospective new grantees. The purpose of the site visits is to observe the grantees’ work, talk with organization leaders, and evaluate first-hand the viability of a renewed grant. Additionally, site visit teams try to identify, and if possible meet with t