We team up with small-scale farmer organizations around the world to support projects that improve the environment and community livelihoods.
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Our campaigns raise money for projects that are completely designed, implemented, and managed by community cooperatives. This is a radical shift in community development, placing trust in local knowledge and expertise. As a result, communities have more sovereignty over their food and resources to spread knowledge on sustaining their communities and their lands.
Community-led Reforestation and Food Sovereignty in Thailand
Campaign Goal: $65,000
Country: Thailand
Grow Ahead has teamed up with Assembly of the Poor (AOP) to support a project to enhance agroforestry and community food-forests for food sovereignty in Thailand.
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Scholarships for Movement-Based Master’s Degree in Agroecology and Food Sovereignty
Grow Ahead is teaming up with ECOSUR to fund scholarships for 13 professionals, peasant-farm leaders, leaders of Indigenous organizations, cooperatives and community associations from Mexico and Latin America to receive their Professional Master’s Degree in Agroecology for Food Sovereignty.
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Indigenous-led Ecosystem Restoration in Mexico
Campaign Goal: $60,000
Country: Mexico
Grow Ahead has teamed up with Communal Assets of the Lacandona Zone (BCZL) to support traditional Mayan agroforestry to boost biodiversity, support soil health and restore freshwater in the lagoons, rivers and springs of the Lacandona Jungle.
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Women-led Reforestation in Brazil
Campaign Goal: $50,000
Country: Brazil
Grow Ahead has teamed up with Central Cooperative of the Agrarian Reform Areas of Ceará to support a Women-led reforestation and beekeeping project in Brazil.
Funded June 2021
Reforestation in Honduras
Campaign Goal: $40,000
Country: Honduras
Grow Ahead teamed up with COMSA to plant 40,000 trees in agroforestry systems with coffee farmers in Honduras.
Funded May 2021
Women-led Reforestation in Nicaragua
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Nicaragua
Grow Ahead teamed up with SOPPEXCCA to support a women-led food security and reforestation project in Nicaragua.
Funded January 2021
Indigenous-led Reforestation in Colombia
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Colombia
Grow Ahead teamed up with COMEPECAFE to support a indigenous-led reforestation project in the mountains of Cauca, Colombia.
Funded March 2021
Reforestation and Beekeeping in Guatemala
Campaign Goal: $20,000
Country: Guatemala
Grow Ahead has teamed up with Maya Ixil to support an indigenous-led reforestation and beekeeping project in Guatemala.
Funded March 2021
Scholarships for Women Farm Leaders in Honduras
Campaign Goal: $5,000
Country: Honduras
Grow Ahead teamed up with COMSA to fund a Organic Agriculture Diploma Workshop for women farm leaders.
Funded May 2020
Loan Fund for Beekeeping in Chiapas, Mexico
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Mexico
Grow Ahead raised $10,000 with FondoMás and impacto cafe for a revolving loan fund to support small-scale coffee farmers as they diversify into producing organic honey.
Funded August 2020
Micro-Loans for Beekeeping for Small-Scale Coffee Farmers
Campaign Goal: $10,000
Country: Mexico
Grow Ahead funded loans to ten coffee farmers to diversify their coffee production with organic honey
Funded January 2019
Women-led Reforestation in Peru
Campaign Goal: $25,000
Country: Peru
Grow Ahead teamed up with CAC Pangoa to support a women-run reforestation project in the Amazon in Peru.
Funded September 2020
Reforestation and Revitalizing Coffee Farms in Peru
Campaign Goal: $46,500
Country: Peru
Grow Ahead teamed up with Cooperativa Norandino to support the families affected by coffee rust – a fungus also known as “La Roya” through a farmer-driven agroforestry program
Funded May 2019