Global
The Christensen Fund’s Global Program is its longest-running program. Our global portfolio is composed of partners who are advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples at various policy-making tables, Indigenous-led funds, and regional alliances with deep local roots and experience.
Some of the key issues our partners focus on include:
Addressing threats to lands and territories, communities, and leaders Advocating for free, prior, and informed consent Supporting Indigenous organizations and networks in building their institutional infrastructure Strengthening Indigenous-led fund mechanisms and other forms of self governance
Meet Some of our Global Partners
Meet Some of our Global Partners
Podáali is an Indigenous-led fund that was created by The Coordination of Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon. Their mission is to promote and strengthen autonomy, Indigenous rights, territorial and environmental management, and to capture, manage, and transfer resources to Indigenous Peoples, organizations and communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Podáali, in the language of the Baniwa people, means “to donate without wanting to receive anything in return.” It is synonymous with celebration, reciprocity, and the promotion of sustainability for the well-being of Indigenous Peoples.
Podáali is an Indigenous-led fund that was created by The Coordination of Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon. Their mission is to promote and strengthen autonomy, Indigenous rights, territorial and environmental management, and to capture, manage, and transfer resources to Indigenous Peoples, organizations and communities in the Brazilian Amazon. Podáali, in the language of the Baniwa people, means “to donate without wanting to receive anything in return.” It is synonymous with celebration, reciprocity, and the promotion of sustainability for the well-being of Indigenous Peoples.
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara is an independent community organization with a vision to create a just and prosperous life for all Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia. Their programs focus on serving their members through advocacy, organization and institution building, and community service and support.
Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara is an independent community organization with a vision to create a just and prosperous life for all Indigenous Peoples in Indonesia. Their programs focus on serving their members through advocacy, organization and institution building, and community service and support.
Snowchange Cooperative is an Indigenous-led, Pan-Arctic organization based in Finland. Since their founding in 2000, they have supported many organizations throughout the Arctic, advanced global policy, and created a small grants program that has been transformative for communities who are traditionally overlooked by most grant-making mechanisms.
Snowchange Cooperative is an Indigenous-led, Pan-Arctic organization based in Finland. Since their founding in 2000, they have supported many organizations throughout the Arctic, advanced global policy, and created a small grants program that has been transformative for communities who are traditionally overlooked by most grant-making mechanisms.
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Program Name | Organization | Country | About |
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Global | Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara | Indonesia | The Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago (Aliansi Masyarakat Adat Nusantara/AMAN) is the largest national Indigenous Peoples alliance in the world and has a played a key role for advancing Indigenous Peoples' rights in Indonesia and around the world. AMAN's primary objective is to represent its members at the local, national, and international levels with a priority on the protection of human rights, recognition of collective territorial rights, and the improvement of local livelihoods. |
Global | Asociación Civil de Trabajo Socioambiental de la Amazonía WATANIBA | Venezuela | Wataniba is a civil society organization that promotes sustainable territorial management processes in the Venezuelan Amazon. They seek to strengthen both the identity of the Indigenous Peoples of this region, as well as their technical capacity to defend and exercise their rights. |
Global | Association of Indigenous Peoples and Organizations of the Northeast, Minas Gerais, and Espirito Santo | Brazil | Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Nordeste, Minas Gerais e Espírito Santo (APOINME) was created in 1990 with the aim of supporting Indigenous leaders in the defense of Indigenous rights in Brazil. |
Global | Cordillera Peoples Alliance, Inc. | Philippines | The Cordillera Peoples Alliance represents over 300 local chapters of Indigenous organizations in the Northern Philippines. CPA is committed to the promotion and defense of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, human rights, social justice, and national freedom and democracy. |
Global | Cultural Survival | United States | Cultural Survival advocates for Indigenous Peoples' rights and has supported Indigenous communities’ self-determination, cultures and political resilience since 1972. Cultural Survival envisions a future that respects and honors Indigenous Peoples' inherent rights and dynamic cultures, deeply and richly interwoven in lands, languages, spiritual traditions, and artistic expression, and rooted in self-determination and self-governance. |
Global | Forest Peoples Programme | United Kingdom | Forest Peoples Programme supports the rights of peoples who live in forests and depend on them for their livelihoods. They work to create political space for forest peoples to secure their rights, control their lands, and decide their own futures in respect to Indigenous Peoples' right to self determination. |
Global | Front Line USA Foundation | United States | Front Line USA Foundation and Front Line Defenders work to protect, defend, support and act for and with human rights defenders whose lives and health are at risk as a result of their peaceful and legitimate activities. |
Global | Fundacion Karisma | Colombia | Fundacion Karisma is a Latin American civil society organization that seeks to protect and promote human rights and social justice in the design and use of digital technologies and the digital world. |
Global | Fundacion Pro Defensa de la Naturaleza y sus Derechos | Ecuador | The Foundation for the Defence of Nature and its Rights supports Indigenous Peoples and local communities to defend the rights of nature. They support a group of Indigenous lawyers to advise Indigenous communities from the Andes to the Amazon on how to protect their rights. |
Global | Global Greengrants Fund, Inc. | United States | Global Greengrants Fund mobilizes resources for communities worldwide to protect our shared planet and work toward a more equitable world. They admnister the Environmental Defenders Collaborative, a pooled fund that sends grants to those under threat for protecting lands and territories. |
Global | If Not Us Then Who | United States | If Not Us Then Who? highlights the role Indigenous and Local Peoples play in protecting our planet. They work in partnership with communities to make films, take photographs, curate content, commission local artists, and host events. |
Global | Indian Law Resource Center, Inc. | United States | The Indian Law Resource Center provides legal assistance to Indigenous Peoples of the Americas to combat racism and oppression, to protect their lands and environment, to protect their cultures and ways of life, to achieve sustainable economic development and genuine self-government, and to realize their other human rights. The Center seeks to overcome the grave problems that threaten Native peoples by advancing the rule of law, by establishing national and international legal standards that preserve their human rights and dignity, and by challenging the governments of the world to accord justice and equality before the law to all Indigenous Peoples of the Americas. |
Global | Indigenous Educational Network of Turtle Island | United States | The Indigenous Environmental Network was established by grassroots Indigenous Peoples and individuals to address environmental and economic justice issues. Their activities include building the capacity of Indigenous communities and tribal governments to develop mechanisms to protect our sacred sites, land, water, air, natural resources, and health of all living things, and to build economically sustainable communities. |
Global | Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation, Inc. | Philippines | The International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self Determination and Liberation is a global network of Indigenous Peoples rights activists, advocates, and organizations committed to advancing the rights of Indigenous Peoples to self determination, land, and life. They stand for the right of Indigenous Peoples to govern themselves free from imperialism, state oppression, and human rights violations. |
Global | Indigenous Peoples Rights, Inc. | United States | Indigenous Peoples Rights International is a global, Indigenous-led organization dedicated to ending the criminalization of Indigenous communities, organizations and leaders. They work tirelessly to respond to the growing number of legal cases and threats of violence facing communities through grassroots organizing, national and regional dialogues, and campaigns and international advocacy. |
Global | International Indian Treaty Council | United States | The International Indian Treaty Council is an organization of Indigenous Peoples from North, Central, and South America, the Caribbean, and the Pacific working for the sovereignty and self determination of Indigenous Peoples and the recognition and protection of Indigenous Rights, Treaties, Traditional Cultures and Sacred Lands. |
Global | International Indigenous Women's Forum / FIMI | Peru | International Indigenous Women's Forum's (FIMI) mission is to bring together Indigenous women leaders and human rights activists from different parts of the world to agree on agendas, coordinate objectives, build capacities, and develop leadership. FIMI encourages the participation of Indigenous women in leadership roles in international decision-making processes by ensuring that the perspective of Indigenous women is consistently and seriously included in all human rights discussions. |
Global | International Land and Forest Tenure Facility | Sweden | The Tenure Facility works with Indigenous Peoples and local communities across the developing world so they can thrive and expand the sustainable management and protection of their forests and lands. Their two main objectives are that customary territories are made more secure by governments in targeted developing countries, and that practical approaches for implementing land and forest tenure reforms are shared and leveraged by practitioners and stakeholders to enable greater support and investment in securing land rights. |
Global | International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs | Denmark | The International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs is a non-governmental human rights organisation promoting, protecting, and defending Indigenous Peoples’ collective and individual rights. They work through a global network of Indigenous Peoples’ organisations and international human rights bodies to promote recognition, respect, and implementation of Indigenous Peoples’ rights, including the right to self determination. |
Global | Ko‘ihonua | United States | Koʻihonua is a nonprofit organization dedicated to reclaiming and providing cultural space for Native Hawaiians to learn, practice, and engage in Hawaiian traditions and practices. |
Global | Land is Life, Inc. | United States | Land is Life is a diverse, Indigenous-led organization that works to advance the self determination and collective rights of Indigenous Peoples in the world’s seven socio-cultural regions. Indigenous Peoples and their representative organizations play a central role in Land is Life’s governance structure, ensuring that their work is focused on priorities identified by Indigenous Peoples themselves, is transparent, and has the flexibility necessary to respond to unexpected challenges and opportunities. |
Global | Ogiek Peoples' Development Program | Kenya | Ogiek Peoples’ Development Program’s work is centered on promoting the recognition and identity of Indigenous Peoples’ culture, the participation and inclusion of the communities in all sectors of development, championing for land rights, ensuring environmental protection, and overall sustainable development. |
Global | Organizacion Nacional Indigena de Colombia (ONIC) | Colombia | The National Indigenous Organization of Colombia is an organization representing the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia. Their main objective is to fight for the rights and interests of the Indigenous Peoples of Colombia, consolidate unity, defend, hold, and recover territory and culture, and specify the real exercise of their autonomy. |
Global | Podaali - Fundo Indigena da Amazonia Brasileira | Brazil | The Podáali – Indigenous Fund of the Brazilian Amazon is an achievement of the Amazon Indigenous Movement, the Coordination of Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon, and its partners in the search for the protection and conservation of land and biodiversity of Indigenous lands in the Amazon. It was created with the purpose of supporting plans and life projects of Indigenous Peoples, communities, and organizations which reinforce self determination and leadership, value cultures and ways of life, strengthen sustainability, and promote the autonomous management of territories and natural resources. |
Global | Pueblo Originario Kichwa de Sarayaku | Ecuador | The Kichwa Original People of Sarayaku are located in the Ecuadorian Amazon (Pastaza province), in the middle of the Bobonaza river basin. Sarayaku has the vision and mission of preserving and using the natural resources of its territory in a sustainable manner, strengthening the Sumak Kawsay (life in harmony), and ensuring the continuity of the Kawsak Sacha (Living Forest). |
Global | Rainforest Foundation Inc. | United States | The Global Alliance of Territorial Communities is a political platform of Indigenous Peoples and local communities united to defend Mother Earth for all humanity’s present and future benefit. Rainforest Foundation US is currently serving as their fiscal sponsor. |
Global | Re:wild | United States | Re:wild protects and restores the wild. They have a singular and powerful focus: the wild as the most effective solution to the interconnected climate, biodiversity and human wellbeing crises. They work directly with and support the rights of Indigenous Peoples and local communities. |
Global | Rights and Resources Institute, Inc. | United States | Rights and Resources Institute is a global coalition of 21 partners and more than 150 rightsholder organizations and their allies dedicated to advancing the forestland and resource rights of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendant peoples, local communities, and the women within these communities. |
Global | Snowchange Cooperative | Finland | Snowchange Cooperative is an organisation of Finns devoted to the advancement of their traditions and culture. Snowchange Cooperative is also a network of local and Indigenous cultures around the world, including the Saami, Chukchi, Yukaghir, Inuit, Inuvialuit, Inupiaq, Gwitchin, Icelandic, Tahltan, Maori, Indigenous Australian, and many other local and Indigenous Peoples and communities. |
Global | Synchronicity Earth USA Inc. | United States | Synchronicity brings conservation to life through their work, championing effective approaches and increasing funding for Earth’s overlooked species and ecosystems and the communities working to protect them. |
Global | Tebtebba Foundation, Inc. | Philippines | Tebtebba (Indigenous Peoples’ International Centre for Policy Research and Education) is an Indigenous Peoples’ organization born out of the need for heightened advocacy to have the rights of Indigenous Peoples respected, protected, and fulfilled worldwide. It also advocates and works on the elaboration and operationalization of Indigenous Peoples’ sustainable, self-determined development. |
Global | Yayasan Anak Dusun Papua | Indonesia | Yayasan Anak Dusun Papua strengthens the Papuan Indigenous Peoples, especially the Papuan Young Generation. |