| $550,000 | 2024 | Multiple CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $462,000 | 2024 | Multiple Europe Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $345,000 | 2024 | Multiple Europe Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $345,000 | 2023 | Anonymous Recipient | |
| $345,000 | 2021 | Anonymous Recipient – Europe | |
| $345,000 | 2021 | Anonymous Recipient – Europe | |
| $341,000 | 2024 | Multiple North America Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $311,000 | 2022 | Mongol Ecology Center | Mongol Ecology Center (MEC) will use the funding to develop eco-trails in Mongolian parklands to accommodate the influx of tourists in the region. MEC will work with trail-building and public outreach experts from America and Siberia to learn how to develop high standard trails for Mongolian parks. The project intends to invite experts to help locate, design, and plan the construction of trails near Ulaanbaatar and Hovsgol National Park. The project will also develop signs and other guidance for hiking, biking, and horseback-riding for tourists. The funds will be used for staff salaries, signs and displays on trails, and travel costs to sites. The project will benefit tourists and youth in the region. |
| $300,000 | 2024 | Multiple CENTRAL AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $300,000 | 2024 | Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $300,000 | 2024 | Multiple EAST ASIA AND THE PACIFIC Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $300,000 | 2023 | Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition | The Swift support funding will contribute to ongoing activity including pushing back industrial market access pipelines, increasing Indigenous capacity in areas such as land and resource use planning, enabling building cultural infrastructure on ancestral territories, framing out community economic development structures, and associated communications. The majority of proposed work is a continuation of groups and activities Swift has supported in the past. However, important to note there are annual changes to specific work plans as organization objectives evolve and other funding, particularly government to Indigenous government program develop and unroll. Currently in northwest BC, government funding is primarily round climate change adaptation, land use planing, building economic development structure, and promoting food security. This proposal will support more than a dozen Indigenous leaders/Wilps/Clans who have been working tirelessly on the issues listed above. It will also support a number of critical technical and strategic individuals in the region whose expertise and work support the various outcomes of all those included in this proposal. It also includes support for the Youth on Water Program and SWCC’s work to tie all of this together. The four areas of work can be summarized as: 1.) INDIGENOUS SOVEREIGNTY: Support and/or partner with Indigenous leaders to assert sovereignty over their lands and culture in the Skeena watershed using various approaches that include territorial stewardship planning, cultural heritage asset mapping, legal strategies and Indigenous Protected Areas. 2.) THREAT RESPONSE: Push back against ill-advised industrial projects that threaten landscape level and ecosystem integrity in the Skeena watershed. 3.) BUILDING THE FUTURE: Continue to build capacity in the region, with a focus on youth, that helps to engender a broad, watershed-based stewardship ethic using various land & culture based approaches including science & research, technical skills, cultural studies & experiential land-based skill development. 4.) SOLUTIONS: Continue researching, piloting, testing and implementing solutions that offer the type of "economy & community that salmon and cultures can thrive with" |
| $300,000 | 2022 | Irmirisho – Community Development Group | Irmirisho Community Development Group (ICDG) will use the funding to support sustainable water management for pastoralist communities. Additionally, the will boost youth business through livestock marketing. The environment where this project is proposed is characterized by social and environment issues. The community is composed of pastoralist people who depend on livestock to support their livelihoods. The livestock co-exists with the natural environment, where land, pasture and water is crucial for the upkeep of these animals. The area is falling within the larger savannah landscape, which is semi-arid land with minimum rainy fall. Due to climate change that causes prolonged droughts, the local community has established climate change adaptive strategies such as strengthening livestock mobility and seasonal grazing calendars. ICDG will Support the construction of water storage tanks, support environmental conservation, establish income projects and support the registration of the organization. The project will benefit men, youth, and indigenous peoples. |
| $300,000 | 2021 | Skeena Watershed Conservation Coalition | Watershed Conservation Coalition (SWCC) will use funds to support the groups critical role in channeling funding to support ongoing activity including pushing back industrial market access pipelines, increasing Indigenous capacity in areas such as land and resource use planning, enabling building cultural infrastructure on ancestral territories, framing community economic development structures, and associated communications. This grant will support a total of 5 Gitxsan, Wet’suwet’en and Tahltan groups (Wilp Luutkudziiwus, Wilp Gwininitxw, Klabona Keepers, and Gitimd’en). It will also support 2 critical technical and strategic individuals in the region whose expertise and work support the various outcomes of all those included in this proposal. It also includes support for the Youth on Water Program and SWCC’s work to tie all of this together. While the current pressures via pipelines are coming from TC Energy (TransCanada), the other near-future threat is a proposed VOPAK petro-liquids shipping terminal very close to Lelu Island at the mouth / heart of the Skeena River estuary, which is especially important to all the juvenile salmon on their emigration out to the ocean to grow as adults. Mostly petro liquids arising from fracking for methane gas. Proposed market access transport is by rail down the Bulkley and Skeena rivers. Currently, Gwininitxw, Luutkiudziiwus, and Skeena Watershed are getting set up to take Canada and BC to court via judicial review re lack of Indigenous consultation once the EAO and Canada Environment give approval – decision is likely in June, 2021. Project Funding |
| $277,000 | 2022 | Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development of Communities NGO | Innovative Solutions for Sustainable Development of Communities (ISSD) will use the funding to find solutions to waste management in Kalavan, Armenia. ISSD is implementing “Recycle It!”, which aims to create waste sorting and a recycling culture. To accomplish this, ISSD will install sorting bins. Since 2018, ISSD has already installed bins in 500 organizations including schools, universities, and offices in Yerevan and other large cities. Due to transportation, ISSD has not been able to target smaller communities. The funds will be used for transportation, waste sorting bins, waste bags, and sorting guidelines. The team will install sorting bins, develop co-branded guidelines, organize a set of trainings and workshops aimed at not only sorting the waste, but increasing awareness and creating the possibility to start environmental startups in the selected communities. The project will be launched in Kalavan community, and slowly engage other communities nearby. The project will benefit men, women, youth, other gender identities, and people living with disabilities. |
| $275,000 | 2024 | Multiple North America Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $268,500 | 2022 | Cobanaras Federacion Estatel de Sociedades de Solidandad Social | Strengthen the local and regional organization of Cobanaras, designing and implementing a specific action plan for the attention, training and accompaniment of community and indigenous women's groups in the municipalities of southern Sonora, which in the short term will enhance social support and well-being in the community and in the lives of the participating women. |
| $267,500 | 2022 | Centro De Reflexión Nim Poqom | Centro de Reflexión Nim Poqom will use the funding to promote the conservation, protection and sustainability of forests, water and soil in the Poqomchi communities of San Cristóbal Verapaz to improve the living conditions of families. |
| $267,500 | 2022 | Nuclear/coal-Free Bataan Movement – Philippines | Nuclear/Coal-Free Bataan Movement (NCFBM) will use the funding to sustain community movement building and enhance/develop leaders' and members' capacity to protect their rights and defend their environment. The province of Bataan has become a hub for dirty and harmful sources of energy in the region, and at present, there are four operating coal-powered plants located in two municipalities, and other coal plants are underway. The first nuclear power facility in the country is being pushed to be utilized as a source of energy, despite the opposition of the people of Bataan. NCFBM plans to launch specific capacity-building activities for the women and youth community leaders, sustain local struggles against coal pollution and the implementation of environmentally critical projects, enhance security measures, and improve communications and connectivity by investing in additional equipment like mobile phones for community organizers. Funds will support campaigns/advocacy, capacity building, operational expenses, and movement building/organizing. This project serves the general public and is youth-led. |
| $250,000 | 2024 | Multiple SOUTH AMERICA Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $250,000 | 2024 | Multiple SOUTH AMERICA Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $240,000 | 2022 | Plataforma Social De Derechos Humanos, Memoria Y Democracia | Plataforma Social de Derechos Humanos, Memoria y Democracia will use funding to articulate diverse social sectors in a permanent space in the face of social and political fragmentation of democracy, collective problems, and the criminalization of social struggles. The land issue in Paraguay is a problem that directly affects the development and life of peasants, farmers, and indigenous territories. In addition to this, economic, social and environmental policies which guarantee the fundamental rights of the rural population as well as indigenous communities generates expulsion dynamics. The context of inequity in the distribution of land, forced evictions and lack of productive development for the life of peasant and indigenous communities is rooted in past land-reforms that blatantly overlook indigenous rights. Plataforma Social de Derechos Humanos, Memoria y Democracia plans to hold weekly meetings and open assemblies, elaborate on written articles, hold interviews, disseminate information on organization activities, improve network management, coordinate with the Legislative Land Commission, and hold demonstrations as well as press conferences. Funds will support lawyer fees, hiring communicators, a visibility campaign, printed materials, travel, and per diems. This project is woman led. |
| $223,750 | 2022 | One Earth Collective | Collective Group (Green Marketing Strategy, PlasticLab, and Green Community) will use the funding to decrease the number of plastics in the environment, provide industry materials, encourage start-up initiatives, and create job opportunities. Combatting single-use plastics is one of the actions to fight pollution. Therefore, a group of experts and organizations gathered to figure out a strategy to limit the throw-off of plastics in dump fills and set a plan to collect plastics and reuse them to produce different items, a policy to launch up-cycling. The Group is a collaboration between Dr. Sana AbiDib Antoun, Ph.D. in Development and Environment, Green Marketing Strategy represented by Mr. Aoun Abi Aoun, and PlasticLab represented by Mr. Ralph Sbeih to Green Community through its program Dawerha. The funds will support the Green Marketing Strategy, represented by Mr. Aoun Abi Aoun, to conduct a communication plan on social media and media networks to promote and enhance the sorting and collection of plastics. Moreover, PalsticLab will do the plastics’ up-cycling by transforming them into benches or other items used in public areas and schools. This project aims to encourage the communities to sort their waste at the source and reuse the recyclables, and it provides the start-up manufacturers. This project will benefit women and youth. |
| $200,000 | 2024 | Multiple Europe Recipients | GENERAL OPERATIONS |
| $200,000 | 2023 | Anonymous Recipient | |
