Many of the communities and leaders we are working
with don't have the time or capacity to develop fundraising
efforts on their own. They just need support quickly
for critical, time sensitive fights.
Our team does the fundraising and administrative
legwork so that frontline groups can focus on what’s
important: on-the-ground efforts to protect land and water and
make positive societal changes. The money we raise
goes directly to supporting frontline activism.
With your help, we’re going to scale this program
up to make sure brave land protectors everywhere have the
resources they need to assert sovereignty over their lands and
continue to resist toxic oil and gas development.
Can you pitch in
whatever you’re able (seriously, even just $5 would make a
huge difference) so more frontline land and water protectors
can get the support they need?
Since its creation in 2017, the Frontline Fund has
provided crucial support to Indigenous communities from the
Arctic to the Amazon.
When the Wet’suwet’en called for help in opposing the
Coastal GasLink pipeline, the Frontline Fund spent tens of
thousands of dollars, covering the cost of multiple vehicles,
communication equipment, travel, and food so they could better
protect their homes.
When the Tiny House Warriors of the Secwepemc Nation needed
to get the message out about their fight to stop the Trans
Mountain Pipeline, the Frontline Fund donated a MiFi unit and
covered the cost for two years of a camp security cell phone
bill.
When the Kichwa Nation’s only plane broke down – forcing
them to travel 11 days by foot between communities to share
information about oil and gas expansion threats near their
home in the Ecuadorian Amazon – the Frontline Fund paid to
repair the plane.
This is only a small sample of the kind of work the
Frontline Fund does to support Indigenous warriors – and an
even smaller cross section of the kind of work that needs
to be done to support Indigenous and other frontline
activists around the globe.
The unfortunate
truth is that there are more urgent requests coming into the
Frontline Fund than we can respond to. Help change that:
donate $5 or whatever you’re able to help power frontline
resistance to oil and gas expansion.
Every single dollar you donate will go directly
toward supporting frontline communities.
Together, the Stand.earth community can lift up and
resource the crucial work that Indigenous and other frontline
activists are doing around the world, from the west
coast of Turtle Island to the Amazon rainforest.
Our team is fewer than 70 people, but this community is
more than half a million people strong and growing – and
together, we're using our collective power to fight climate
change, protect wild spaces, stand with impacted communities,
and say no to new fossil fuels.
Let’s create a
reality where Indigenous and other frontline communities have
all the support they need to stand toe-to-toe with the
governments and corporations that would pollute and destroy
their homes.
With deep appreciation,
Tzeporah Berman
International Program
Director
Stand.earth
