From the Global Greengrants Fund.

• Author: Tchozewski, Chet
• Position: FROM READERS - Letter to the Editor

We would like to thank Mac Chapin and World Watch for highlighting some of the challenges facing traditional and indigenous communities not only in Latin America, but around the world. We live in an era when transnational NGOs, corporations, and financial institutions increasingly dominate global conservation. With these power dynamics, the challenge of how funding can effectively flow from north to south, while remaining relatively divorced from the strings of northern-based conservation ideology, is far from resolved.

Here at Global Greengrants Fund we believe that providing small grants to grassroots social and environmental leaders and groups is one of the most effective strategies for shifting control of capital, and the work it funds, to those who are most knowledgeable of and affected by...