Daughters for Earth announces Financing for 26 Women-led Initiatives that will Conserve and Revitalize the Planet

Today, Daughters for Earth announced awards to 26 women-led projects working to preserve and revitalise the planet in 17 different nations. These awards, which total $600,000, are a part of an effort to get vital supplies into the hands of the women leading climate change initiatives. Daughters mobilises and connects women worldwide to solve the climate catastrophe and heal our planet. Daughters was co-founded by women leaders in the women's rights, environmental, and philanthropy sectors.

A global coalition of young women climate activists working with Global Choices to protect the Central Arctic Ocean, an effort to restore 60 hectares of baobab forests in Madagascar by Groupe des Spécialistes et des Passionns de Baobabs de Madagascar, and others are just a few of the new projects supported by the organisation. This most recent round's grantees are even more geographically diversified than the portfolio from the previous round, ensuring that resources are getting to the women who are actually defending our planet. Daughters has given over $1.2 million to projects run by women overall.

According to Zainab Salbi, co-founder of Daughters for Earth and founder of Women for Women International, "These 26 women-led, and operated efforts are working on the frontlines of the climate crisis, deploying proven solutions and pioneering deeply collaborative efforts to protect and restore the Earth." "These programmes are creating a community of women who are essential to resolving the climate catastrophe and mending our one and only home, led by intelligent, strong women."

Daughters for Earth supports women-led or run programmes in three major areas: nature conservation, the restoration of our lands and seas, and regenerative agriculture, working closely with the 50+ members of the Daughters for Earth Advisory Circle and One Earth to find and choose grantees.

Daughters for Earth increased their geographic diversity during this round of grantmaking and includes initiatives to safeguard and restore our oceans, coastal areas, and freshwater ecosystems.

Daughters for Earth, which recognises the urgency of these crises and the need for swift and informed deployment of capital, has a close partnership with One Earth, an organisation that has pioneered groundbreaking research on the solutions to the twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss and is working to scale philanthropic resources for on-the-ground climate solution projects through their cutting-edge platform, tthe One Earth Project Marketplace.

These new funds symbolise Daughters and its goal to raise $100 million and support women's initiatives globally, helping to unlock the enormous potential in underfunded and undervalued women-led climate projects.