Stories & Impact

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

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

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