NETWORKS

The Casa Fund is a co-founder of the Comuá Network, a space that brings together thematic, community funds and community foundations, donor organizations (grantmakers) independent, which mobilize resources from diverse sources to support groups, collectives, movements and civil society organizations that work in the fields of socio-environmental justice, human rights and community development. Supporting civil society initiatives led by political minorities with financial resources is a key strategy for the promotion and construction of agendas aimed at the recognition and defense of rights, and therefore, for the strengthening of Brazilian democracy. The Network seeks to strengthen its members’ capacity for joint action, enhancing their role in social transformation processes, in advocacy actions, giving visibility to their actions both in the field of philanthropy and in the public sphere.

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Alianza Socioambiental Fondos del Sur • Socio-Environmental Funds of the Global South is a new initiative that brings together the independent, locally founded and led, socio-environmental funds from across the globe. Each local Fund was created by local socio-environmentalists who believe the only way to protect our planet is to make timely resources available to support local grassroots organizations that are facing the negative impact of environmental devastation, and at the same time, proposing just sustainable alternatives to protect communities’ rights and territories in all ecosystems.

The Alianza brings together long standing socio-environmental funds like Casa Socio-Environmental Fund (Fundo Casa Socioambiental) in Brazil, Solidarity Action Fund (Fondo Acción Solidaria) in México, Tierra Viva Fund (Fondo Tierra Viva) in Central America, and Samdhana Institute in Southeast Asia, with recently launched funds such as Semilla Fund (Fundación Semilla) in Bolivia, Peru Socio-environmental Fund (Fondo Socioambiental Peru) in Peru, Emerge Socio-Environmental Fund (Emerger Fondo Socioambiental) in Colombia, Ñeque Fund (Fondo Ñeque) in Ecuador, and Tindzila Fund (Fundo Tindzila) in Mozambique. What they have in common is that these activist funds belong to the territories and struggles they are set up to support. They understand how the most vulnerable populations facing environmental challenges in their own countries and regions, are also the most excluded, have their rights constantly violated, and are mostly invisible to philanthropy.