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With climate chaos growing by the day, science and common sense dictate that the last thing our world can afford is more fossil fuel infrastructure. Yet U.S. oil and gas companies are still trying to break ground on new projects, whether pipelines or plants, frequently over the objections of the regions’ Indigenous communities and other neighbors. We're honored to join the Swift and Kataly Foundations in supporting grassroots efforts that are working towards a greener and more equitable planet. Learn more in this Inside Philanthropy article. ...

22 January, 2022

When California voters passed Propositions 11 and 20 to create the statewide independent redistricting commission a decade ago, there were concerns that such a panel would end up diluting the voting power of the state’s Asian, Latino and African American communities. The other commissioners and I felt the weight of that concern daily and took to heart our responsibility to serve all of our state’s diverse population. This must be kept in mind once again as the state prepares to redraw districts. Hear directly from Panta Rhea CEO Connie Archbold Robinson about the impact of her work with California’s redistricting commission...

21 October, 2021

ClimateOne features Analena Hope Hassberg, author of Black Food Matters, the Global Alliance for the Future of Food’s Ruth Richardson, Anna Lappé, and Frances Moore Lappé on this special podcast about the links between food, farming, and the climate crisis. ...

17 September, 2021

Twenty years ago, founder Hans Schoepflin renamed his family foundation Panta Rhea, inspired by the Heraclitus quote that translates to “All things flow; all things change.” As it celebrates its anniversary, Panta Rhea is living up to the name with a reorganization of its funding programs, a new website, two new board members and a change in the board’s leadership. Learn more about Panta Rhea’s evolution in this Inside Philanthropy article.   ...

08 June, 2021

The World Food Programme’s Nobel prize is timely – but food security depends on radically transforming our food systems.  Food Sovereignty Fund Director Anna Lappé joins Agroecology Fund leaders Daniel Moss and Amrita Gupta in this opinion piece advocating for sweeping transformations of our food systems through agroecology. ...

15 October, 2020