Stories & Impact

Summary prepared by Janet Pearson on behalf of the site visit team that also included Betsy Hale and Diane Logan. Pangea site visits are unique opportunities to further a core element of our mission, which is to engage in trust-based partnerships with grassroots organizations. Our recent visit to Guatemala provided the opportunity for careful listening and deep conversations. As with most Pangea site visits, there were three elements to our time in Guatemala: 1) educating our

By Caroline Odera, Founder and Executive Director of  Women in Sustainable Development  (WISE), and Ferdinand Wafula, Founder and Executive Director of  Bio Gardening Innovations  (Western Kenya) ELAF gathering 2024. Photo: WISE We hosted this year’s East Africa Leaders Forum for current and past Pangea Giving grantees. The two-day convention brought together organizations from East Africa for organizational running experience sharing, network building, challenges experienced

FORTUNE site visit, 2024, Thailand. Photo: Emily Ho Each year, Pangea Giving evaluates current and potential grant partners for new funding to be provided. In March of 2024, 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

By Paul Silver, March 2023 Paul Silver with GVC Overview:  On behalf of Pangea, I, accompanied by my intrepid spouse, Christina Marra, visited our new (and first) grantee in Laos, Green Community Volunteers (GCV) for three days.  Founded in 2009, by an ethnic minority woman, GVC seeks to empower communities on environmental issues such as biodiversity preservation. Site Visit:  Two of the three co-directors of GCV, Dorn, who is GCV’s founder, and Linol, who is a volunteer law

By Allan Paulson, June 4, 2023 Allan Paulson In November, 2001, I received an email out of the blue inviting me to come to a discussion about how we could promote better understanding across cultures and countries. This was a few months after the 9/11 attack. One of the disconcerting back stories that emerged focused how much dislike and hatred there was toward Americans, and America in many parts of the world. I decided to go, and found myself in a large conference room hig