Dear Global Grassroots Friends,

As we move towards the end of the year, we’re taking a reflective gaze at the entirety of 2022, appreciating the challenges, the impact, the stories, friendships, and collective engagement that have made the year so rich. You are all a part of the Global Grassroots story and we thank you. We’ll be releasing our comprehensive Year-End Update in early January, but would like to share our gratitude today for the impact that we’ve had together this year.

We’re investing in young women this #GivingTuesday. Will you join us to ensure they have the support, mentorship, entrepreneurial training, and opportunity needed to implement their vision for community impact?

Your single action this week can make a huge difference in the lives of young women and their communities. Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday and we’re overjoyed to share that a generous supporter has offered to match all gifts until we reach $5,000!

Starting TOMORROW, November 29th through December 2nd, your gift will be matched, going twice as far in supporting our Young Women’s Academy for Conscious Change! $10 will become $20, $25 will become $50, or any gift you can give.

Dear Friends,

As we enter this season of gratitude, connection and sharing, we want to send our appreciation for your support and partnership. Your contributions of time, resources, ideas, and heart lead directly to meaningful conscious social change - from inner transformation to clean water for thousands, to trauma healing, community education, and so much more.

In July, Global Grassroots’ staff met with leaders, community members and partners of four of our longest-running women’s water leadership initiative teams in Jali, Rwanda.

Using Ripple Effects Mapping, a participatory research process, we collaboratively recreated a timeline of key events and documented the most salient impacts of each team’s efforts since they participated in our Women’s Academy for Conscious Change.

After 5+ years of implementation, these water ventures are still going strong! We’ll share more from this inquiry in our first Wisdom Lab report in late 2022.

We are overjoyed to share that Global Grassroots has been honored with the iF Social Impact Prize by iF Design, an international institution at the vanguard of innovative design and social engagement. Their distinguished panel of jurors has selected our Women’s Water Leadership Initiative as a uniquely impactful project that is deeply aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Thank you, iF Design, for recognizing the incredible work of Global Grassroots’ women change agents in Rwanda.

Together with your help, we’re investing in women, water and sustainability. Read more in this Mid-Year Update about how our Conscious Social Change work is impacting lives and communities. The change agents we work with are executing projects that are improving access to clean water for 30,000+ people since 2021 alone and training their communities to better respond to myriad challenges.