Global Communities
Current donation: $100,000
Donations to date: $595,000
Global Communities (GC) provides communities in the developing world with the tools to lift themselves out of poverty and contribute less to climate change. Our donations allowed GC to provide their Women Empowered groups in Guatemala with climate-smart agriculture training, starter kits with drought-resistant seeds, and on-farm technical support.
Why They're Climate Smart
In the first four years of our partnership, our donations helped GC reach 488 households (2,928 individuals) in the dry western highlands of Huehuetenango, Guatemala. Together, we transitioned those families from traditional open fires to climate-smart cookstoves and water filters, reforested 30,300 seedlings and built drought-resistant, water-conserving gardens — significantly reducing deforestation, eliminating 18,216 tons of carbon emissions annually, and saving future generations from smoke-related health problems. Then in 2023, we expanded our partnership to help communities in the Dodoma region of Tanzania implement climate-smart agricultural techniques and grow nutritious food and increase food security — resulting in the Government of Tanzania adopting GC’s methodology on a much broader scale.
Why They Receive Our Continued Support
This year’s donation will enable GC to shift the learnings from Tanzania back to Guatemala, where they will fully mobilize their Women Empowered groups (which build the social and financial agency of women, develop entrepreneurs, and establish financial resilience during periods of climate-shocks) to support a regenerative, climate-smart agricultural production model, build businesses based on climate-smart inputs (such as seeds and hands-on technical support), adopt climate-smart food production, and ensure the sustainability of the project.