That streak is present in LDF’s expanding climate funding, with money going to Mark Ruffalo’s community activist-backing Solutions Project, which recently won an NCRP Impact Award for its work at Standing Rock. It’s also reflected in an Indigenous Rights Program, which just granted about $800,000 to recipients that include the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. The program is a sign of the growing awareness of underfunding in Native American communities that emerged during the tribe’s resistance movement to the Dakota Access pipeline. LDF has also given past support for the Goldman Prize winners, champions of risky environmental activism.

Read the entire article.

Comments are closed.