1% for the Planet has ambitious goals to grow its member base and advisory support for those members, all to advance its mission of accelerating corporate environmental giving.
7 Directions of Service is an Occaneechi-Saponi organization working in North Carolina to educate the public about the importance of protecting waterways and lands.
Erol is supporting ACE’s Creator Collective campaign that directly invests in youth social media influencers who are inspiring peers to take action on the climate crisis.
Erol is supporting the Agroecology Fund’s work to transform food systems, advance the economic well-being of small farmers and Indigenous peoples, and mitigate climate change through agroecological practices.
Erol funded ACF’s work to provide scientific research, analysis, technical support and communications to help the EPA, federal policymakers and other stakeholders fully understand the potential environmental impacts of the Pebble Mine on one of the world’s largest salmon fisheries.
The Alter Eco Foundation is working to transform the chocolate industry and save the forests. Erol’s grant will support their efforts to combat climate change through regenerative farming practices, including dynamic agroforestry.
The Alter Eco Foundation is working to transition cacao farmers to dynamic agroforestry and accelerate the adoption of the model within supply chains. Erol’s grant supports transition projects and field research to track progress in carbon sequestration, biodiversity, yield and income generation for farmers.
Throughout Peru, Amazon Conservation is working to detect and prevent incidents of illegal deforestation through a combination of satellite observation and partnership with indigenous communities, all in collaboration with the Peruvian government.
A leader in rainforest research and advocacy, Amazon Conservation furthers the field by operating several bio-stations throughout Peru. These sites are also leveraged for academic studies, birding and eco-tourism, a new source of earned revenue for the organization.
Amazon Conservation is developing markets for forest-based nuts and fruits in the southwest Amazon. This grant will help strengthen the productive and business capacities of local communities to help them fully benefit from forest-based goods.
The Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science at ASU is developing the world’s first forest carbon indicator using satellite imagery in partnership with Planet.
Barefoot College continues to grow its solar installation program with new training centers in Africa, South America and the Pacific Islands, as well as launching a financially sustainable for-profit model.
The Battery Foundation’s core program, Battery Powered, educates and engages its members in the process of philanthropy covering themes like global conservation, homelessness, women’s health and opportunity youth.
Erol is supporting Blue Ventures to develop blue carbon projects in Western Africa. This work will help build the capacity of coastal communities and local organizations to conserve, restore, and sustainability manage mangroves and associated fisheries in the region.
The BOMA Project received a grant to support its Rural Entrepreneur Access Program for ultra-poor women in the arid and semi-arid lands of Africa, providing them an achievable and durable pathway out of extreme poverty.
In partnership with the government of Tanzania, BRAC will launch an early childhood development program to close the gap in access to quality education for 3-5 year olds.
Erol is supporting the BravenX project, which will equip hundreds of underrepresented college students with the skills, networks, experiences, and confidence necessary to secure a strong job after graduation. Proving what is possible for this group of students on the pathway to career.
California Environmental Justice Alliance (CEJA) is a community-led alliance that works to unite the powerful local organizing of community members to alleviate poverty and pollution.
In response to the Syrian Refugee Crisis, CMBM developed a trauma relief program tailored to refugees and their caregivers in Jordan. Erol supported and participated in the group training sessions aiming to reach thousands of displaced families on their journey to recovery and re-establishment.
Ceres is drawing the connection between deforestation and global supply chain risk for large consumer brands and their investors, growing the number of companies publicly committing to zero-deforestation.
The Climate Breakthrough Project finds extraordinary strategists and gives them the time, space, and resources to create and implement the boldest strategies they can conceive to mitigate climate change.
CEF’s mission it to support individuals and organizations that are disrupting the current, gradual approach that governments around the world are taking to address the climate emergency. Erol’s grant will provide operational support for their climate movement.
Erol is supporting Climate Emergency Fund to amplify the urgent call of their activist grant recipients, awaken the public to the climate emergency, and disrupt the gradual approach governments around the world are taking to address the climate emergency.
Climate Justice Alliance (CJA) is a coalition of 82 local, national, and global organizations providing movement building training, funding, and communication resources for organizations on the frontlines of climate activism. We are proud to support CJA and their leadership in building the U.S. climate action movement.
Climate One offers a forum for candid discussion among climate influencers – scientists, policymakers, activists, and concerned citizens. Through their podcast and other platforms, Climate One has become an essential resource to change-makers looking to make a difference.
Through their podcast, national radio show, and live convenings for the public, Climate One creates opportunities for dialogue and inspires a more complete understanding of the climate crisis.
Climate Outreach is developing a library of free, compelling, evidence-based ocean imagery for global climate communicators. Titled Oceans Visuals, the library will build public engagement, promote action, and tackle polarization on climate change and the oceans by creating new, accessible, and engaging visual resources for storytelling.
CRP provides a home and valued resource for refugees in Amman, Jordan through its multiple community centers and services around education, youth development, workforce training, medical treatment, mental health support and emergency financial aid.
COMACO protects wildlife, supports small-scale farmers, and provides markets in Zambia through improved farming practices and the production of value-added agricultural commodities. Erol is supporting COMACO’s operations across Zambia through market-based engagement with small-scale farmers.
Community Markets for Conservation (COMACO) is a creative model that improves agricultural practices and results in increased food security, reduced poaching and deforestation, and increased household income in Zambia’s Luangwa Valley. Erol’s support will help to expand the successful model to the region of Kafue.
Common Ground is a documentary about power and profit within food systems in the United States and the value of regenerative practices in restoring soil health and mitigating climate change. Erol is supporting Common Ground‘s screening program.
Compass works in San Francisco to support families facing homelessness by providing wraparound services and a hopeful path forward. Trauma-informed services help to meet families where they are on the journey to independent stable housing.
Conexsus’ works to activate community-based business ecosystems to increase income opportunities for rural communities that conserve threatened biomes and keep forests standing.
Conservation International is helping build capacity for blue carbon development in the global south, such that blue carbon is recognized as a valuable climate change solution.
Blue carbon ecosystems – mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses – make an outsized impact on Earth’s climate. Conservation International is working with countries, companies and multilateral organizations to ensure these ecosystems are valued, protected and restored accordingly.
As a world leader in conservation science, CI is spearheading an initiative for coastal nations to include blue carbon in their Paris Climate Agreement commitments.
Conservation International Ventures invests in businesses that protect, manage, and restore nature in sectors such as agroforestry and non-timber forestry products, sustainable and regenerative seafood, and biodiversity protection.
Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of community members of all ages who are harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change.
The Digital Climate Coalition (DCC) is a network of communications organizations that develop more impactful digital organizing campaigns involving metric testing and information sharing. The DCC supports narrative building and digital communications capacity for organizations tackling climate change.
The Ellen Macarthur Foundation works with leaders in business, government, and academia to promote adoption of a circular economy approach to address numerous environmental challenges. Erol is supporting EMF’s work to secure a robust Global Plastics Treaty by expanding their Business Coalition.
Upending a flawed verification system, Enveritas focuses on coffee and cocoa in pursuit of complete accuracy and transparency around each supply chain.
A major source of methane emissions in the US comes from low-producing oil and gas wells. Erol’s grant supports the Environmental Defense Fund’s work to highlight the stories of communities that have been impacted by methane pollution to help ensure that marginal wells are included in all state and federal efforts to address methane pollution.
Adjacent to the historic COP21 meeting in Paris, Erol Foundation partnered with Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center and others to host an unprecedented convening of asset managers, aiming to educate and advance the profession toward climate-wise investing.
Future Coalition provides young people with the resources, tools, and support they need to create the change they want to see in their communities, with a strong focus on climate mobilization. Erol is supporting the work of Future Coalition to provide training and amplify communications efforts to expand the capacity of youth-led climate action.
Youth around the world have captured our attention, and they are converting that attention into support and action. Future Coalition has a major voice in this space, leading efforts around the 2020 youth climate strikes in close partnership with other youth- and adult-led organizations.
As a member of the Global Alliance of the Future of Food, Erol joins 25+ other foundations in catalyzing active participation and building critical momentum for healthy, equitable, renewable, resilient, and inclusive food systems.
This creative and relentless plastics campaign has a laser focus aimed at converting top grocery chains and consumer brands from bad actors into corporate leaders in the race to eliminate single-use plastics from our economy.
Erol is supporting Greenpeace USA’s Fossil Free Future Climate Campaign, which aims to stop the expansion of US oil and gas by ushering in a responsible and equitable fossil fuel phase-out transition plan.
Erol is supporting the HSA’s work towards the adoption of a robust and ambitious treaty in favor of the high seas. Their work during the UN negotiations is crucial, as they seek to ensure the effective protection and regulation of this valuable ecosystem.
Working to empower San Francisco’s most vulnerable populations, homeless mothers and children, HPP intervenes during pregnancy to ensure a safe and healthy delivery along with supportive services throughout early childhood.
Honor the Earth challenges fossil fuel expansion by organizing and advocating for Indigenous communities to protect their homelands and water. Erol is supporting their No Fossil Fuels in the Great Lakes Campaign, working to mobilize against expanding pipeline infrastructure.
Erol is supporting Human Rights Watch to document and expose threats to Indigenous territories, protected lands, and forest defenders in Brazil and other key countries with major rainforests. Their work will help increase international pressure on governments to preserve frontline communities and precious forest ecosystems.
A critical voice in global human rights monitoring, Human Rights Watch and Erol have partnered on two important initiatives – mapping gender discrimination across the Middle East, and mitigating the health impacts of the climate crisis on vulnerable communities.
IGNITE’s mission is to put more women in American politics, regardless of party affiliation. In an effort to scale their impact, IGNITE launched a college fellows program reaching students as they begin to chart their career paths.
With its data-driven approach, InfluenceMap provides transparency around corporate climate behavior and the investors behind these companies. Leveraged by nonprofits, governments and institutional investors, these tools help remove stubborn financial and political barriers to climate progress.
Working closely with struggling readers, LearnUp has developed a literacy program for students with dyslexia and other reading challenges that quickly brings them up to grade level or above. Erol is supporting their efforts to bring this curriculum to low-income students in the Bay Area.
Lipstick Angels, with its dedicated volunteer force, brings hope and dignity to patients who are in the fight of their lives. Their model is scaling quickly throughout treatment centers across with country, with a focus on California and New York.
In 2019, Middlebury announced their plan to address the threat of climate change through campus action, endowment management, and educational initiatives. Erol’s grant supports student climate activism programs, events, and educational opportunities related to climate and sustainability.
Erol is supporting NESsT to expand their Lirio Fund into Brazil. This work will support local enterprises that promote regenerative agriculture and gender equity while simultaneously protecting the Amazon rainforest.
The philanthropic arm of Numi Tea operates programs on a local and global scale, from developing an organic gardening curriculum with Oakland Unified School District to providing safe drinking water to farmers in Madagascar.
Nuru International takes a unique approach to global development with a mission to eradicate extreme poverty in fragile rural areas, and to build communities resilient to violent extremism.
Organization to Advance Solutions in the Sahel (OASIS) works to advance education and choice for women and girls in the Sahel region of North Africa. Through educational programs, capacity building, and policy advocacy, OASIS empowers women and girls in the Sahel to complete their schooling and advance their decision-making power.
One Atmosphere is committed to the fight against climate change by supporting individuals to be catalysts for change. Erol supported the creation of a mural in San Francisco, dedicated to the alternative rock band CAKE. Following the devastating fires in California, the mural tells a story of renewal and is part of a multi-phase effort to help school kids replant trees.
One Tree Planted is making it easier for individuals and businesses to give back to the environment, create a healthier climate, protect biodiversity and help reforestation efforts around the world.
Using its “near peer” model, PHE supports educators by coming into classrooms for a critical and relatable conversation around mental health, sexual education, addiction and other risks.
Physicians for Social Responsibility – LA joins the voices of health professionals with frontline communities to advance a safer climate and environmental future.
The Protect Our Water, Heritage, Rights (POWHR) coalition represents communities from Virginia and West Virginia dedicated to protecting water, land, and communities.
By engaging businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs, RMI seeks to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. Erol’s grant will provide general support to RMI’s mission and current strategic plan.
A best-in-class provider of literacy training and education, Room to Read has taken their holistic approach to South Africa, building libraries, training teachers and publishing culturally appropriate children’s books.
Saúde e Alegria promotes sustainable community development to improve the quality of life for communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Erol is supporting the development of a regional EcoCenter to produce value-added products and expand a community-based forest economy.
Researchers at Stanford School of Earth were funded to analyze and predict the potential economic impact of a global warming scenario of 1.5°C compared with 2°C. The study estimated a potential $30 trillion in additional economic losses by 2100.
Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance leveraged its tremendous convening power to launch “Investing in a New Climate.” These events brought together foundation and endowment asset managers for a workshop on climate-wise investing.
By working closely with local communities in the DRC, Strong Roots aims to save great apes from extinction and secure collective tenure of traditional lands. Erol is supporting the creation of a wildlife corridor that will increase the population of gorillas through community conservation plans that ensure long-term protection.
Sustainable Harvest International provides long-term technical assistance to support smallholder farmers transitioning to regenerative agriculture in Central America to achieve food security and diversity, increase household income, and sequester more carbon in soils and forest biomass.
Tackling an entire culture and the industry that supports it, Sustainable Surf partners with manufacturers, surfers, media and other influencers to promote a more sustainable sport.
Scaling its successful model globally, Teach for All manages a Catalyst Fund providing seed funding to launch lower-income countries, including Erol grantee Teach for Uganda.
Rapidly reducing methane emissions from the energy, agriculture and waste sectors is the most effective strategy to reduce warming while improving public health and agricultural productivity. Erol Foundation joined the Global Methane Hub, the first-ever international philanthropic initiative to accelerate action on methane reduction.
After the release of the award-winning ‘Kiss the Ground” documentary in 2020, Erol is supporting the implementation of a farmer outreach program featuring a special edit of the film. The aim is to increase the adoption of regenerative farming practices to protect food supply and harness the power of the soil in the fight against climate change.
In partnership with award-winning filmmaker Matthieu Rytz, The Redford Center is supporting production of a new documentary on the topic of deep sea mining and the ethical decisions that accompany this new industry.
Erol is supporting Unocace’s work to improve cacao yields through dynamic agroforestry and to provide capacity building for Ecuadorian cacao producers.
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Erol is supporting the Impact Campaign for We Are Guardians, a documentary that explores the culture and efforts of the Tembé and Guajajara Indigenous Amazon communities working to combat illegal logging and encroachment, while establishing reforestation and agroforestry systems.
West Virginia Rivers is a member of the Waterkeepers, a national water protectors coalition, who is working with communities across West Virginia to preserve clean and free-flowing waterways.
WildAid brings its expertise in communications and consumer behavior change to Francophone Africa with a new campaign and documentary film on pangolins, the most highly trafficked species on our planet.
