Since 2024, AVF has been advancing an initiative focused on Indigenous leadership, intercultural healing, and bioregional climate justice throughout the Northeast. Over the past two years, this work has evolved into a set of ongoing, Indigenous-led, community-rooted initiatives.
Read MoreThe Earth Connection Film Festival was held on Earth Day, April 22 at the IU Cinema at the University of Indiana Bloomington. Free to the public, it featured 17 international films enjoyed by 300 attendees across the day. The festival was divided into three themes– Responsibility, Interdependence and Hope. Each filmmaker received a screening fee for their work and were eligible for award money.
Read MoreOver the past year, across two communities in southern Togo, Earth Guardians Togo has been supporting farmers with the knowledge, tools and resources needed to restore degraded land and strengthen local food systems.
Read MoreThis past year Earth Rising was proud to support COPAL in sending Latine youth climate activists to attend the Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD) in Colombia. Geanella Ochoa (COPAL’s Environmental Justice Director) represented COPAL along with Vivian Sieger (Youth Program Manager) who was able to join as a part of a delegation with Alianza Americas.
Read MoreGlobal Changemakers’ new course was designed to remove language barriers and provide young changemakers from the Global South with the specific knowledge required to navigate changing landscapes and emerging climate emergencies in their own countries.
Read MoreEarth Rising is proud to support the United People Project’s Youth Environment Leadership Initiative(YELI). YELI is a program designed to equip youth with the skills, knowledge and passion to address local environmental justice issues. Youth engaged in YELI gain practical experience in advocacy, change making and environmental stewardship through hands-on projects, mentorship and leadership trainings.
Read MoreEcokids, Meg Wah’s flagship annual program, jointly developed and implemented by Meg Wah and Voice of Nature (VoNat), has run for five consecutive years, training more than 950 young climate ambassadors from the North West and South West Regions of Cameroon.
Read MoreGAIA is a global network built on community knowledge and local expertise. Together, this network is working toward a just, zero-waste world that respects ecological limits and community rights, while ensuring that resources are sustainably used and disposed of (not burned or dumped) so that all people can live free from toxic pollution.
Read MoreThe Climate Mental Health Network is made up of community advocates focused on the emotional impacts of climate change. The network serves as a resource hub providing tools, programs and guidance for communities to better understand climate-related emotions and how these feelings influence well-being.
Read MoreClimate Stories Project has developed a comprehensive educational curriculum to engage students with personal and community responses to climate change through narrative, interviewing, and media creation.
Read MoreLetters to the Earth is an award-winning global participatory and storytelling organization working to transform humanity’s relationship with nature. Through nature-based programs, workshops and creative campaigns, Letters to the Earth inspires and activates change-makers for a more sustainable and regenerative world.
Read MoreWWOOF-USA’s Future Farmer Program empowers the next generation of regenerative and organic farmers through hands-on experience, mentorship, and professional training.
Read MoreLVEJO’s Youth Organizing Program cultivates the next generation of climate and environmental justice leaders in Little Village, a frontline community deeply impacted by environmental racism.
Read MoreMYN is an organization dedicated to preparing frontline youth for hopeful and imaginative leadership in climate adaptation, mitigation and resilience through hands-on ancestral approaches and STEAM that emphasizes stewardship and relationship-building.
Read MoreThis past fall from October 13 to November 10 2025, The Yaku Mama Flotilla traveled over 1,800 miles from the Andes in Ecuador to Belém, Brazil where the COP30 was held.
Read MoreCREATE has been leading the charge to combat climate change in rural West Africa for over a decade by engaging, mobilizing and supporting trusted leaders in rural villages to come up with solutions that prioritize the strengths of their communities while transforming the livelihoods of local residents.
Read MoreYEA! supports youth leaders in the Twin Cities and throughout Minnesota to take action for the climate. The initiative recognizes the disproportionate impact climate change has on low-income and BIPOC communities and works to support Minnesota youth climate leaders
Read MoreTrama +Tres Vidas is a regenerative and educational farm where Tres Vidas focuses on growing food with regenerative agriculture practices and Trama centers in reintroducing sustainable textiles and natural dyes in Puerto Rico.
Read MoreThis past year AILA has made meaningful progress on The Return Maple Bay project by advancing both rigorous scholarship through indigenous leaders speaking and presenting about the lake as well as fostering a movement that fights for honoring treaties, protecting water and a balanced and just future.
Read MoreEarth Rising is proud to support TWP’s work with Utz Ché, a network of over 40 communities and collectives in Guatemala. Utz Ché means “good tree” in the Mayan language, K’iche’, and the organization represents approximately 200,000 people throughout the country, more than 90% of them Indigenous.
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