New York – June 8, 2017
ITP is proud announce the selection of 2016 ITP Grant Partner Sandra Kwak, Founder and CEO of 10Power, as one of the 2017 Echoing Green Fellows:

"I am humbled and honored to have been selected for Echoing Green, a Fellowship with alumni network that includes Van Jones and Michelle Obama! My peers in the 2017 cohort are doing amazing things: data for black lives, worker owned cooperatives in the rust belt, women's small-share-farm-holder organizing in Zimbabwe, student-led peace initiatives in South Sudan, refugee legal and empowerment services, advanced coral reef restoration technology and so much more (see link below). Incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported 10Power in getting to where we are today. Thank you to our team, our investors, our advisors, our grantors Maggie Kaplan @Invoking The Pause and Summer Meyer @Presidio Graduate School. Excited for all to come!"
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2017 Invoking The Pause Grant Partner DANCING EARTH's Indigenous artists and cultural carriers have been hard at work creating danceworks about ecological issues as advised by Native elders. Starting in 2006 with Indigenous perspectives on water issues, leading us to roots and seeds, food sovereignty, sacred sites, and treaties - including the First Indigenous Women's Treaty Defending Mother Earth. » Read More

Lisa Micheli, Ph.D., (ITP Advisory Committee) is the president and CEO of the Pepperwood Foundation, which aims to advance science-based conservation through the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. Micheli facilitates the Terrestrial Biodiversity Climate Change Collaborative, a grantee through the Moore Foundation's San Francisco Bay Area program. Here, she discusses her role as a conduit between local landowners and researchers addressing the relationships between climate, water and life in the ecosystems of California. Read more

ITP is very excited about current Grant Partner Tara DePorte of Human Impact Hours and her Impact Hours program - Amplifying and Inspiring Impact.  The Impact Hours series will dig into ongoing environmental and social justice work, while sharing tools for more effective personal and organizational action.  Helping people navigate the current climate of information “clutter” is more important than ever.  Each Impact Hour will include perspectives from an artist, activist, and academic on issues of communication, engagement, action, and impact.  Together, we will challenge each other's assumptions and share practical tactics for sparking social change.  Join in-person in NYC (space is limited) or online from around the world.  Read more about the series topics and sign up to participate: » Read More

I salute each of you for your persistence and facing the craziness of our world, and proceeding with your work nonetheless.
Thank you...

Maggie

Read "Every Day I Make a Decision Not to Give Up"

Former ITP Grant Partner California Foodways has been nominated for a James Beard Broadcast Media award.  Read about this prestigious honor here.

The Invoking The Pause Advisory Committee met recently to select grant partners for the 2017 grant cycle from a pool of over 40 applicants. The proposals came from scientists and artists, activists and actors. As we reviewed the requests, we were inspired by the creativity and quality of the collaborations seeking climate challenge solutions across so many different disciplines. This year, we selected 8 extraordinary projects to receive Invoking The Pause support.

We have also additionally funded 6 previous projects with a "Seeding Possibilities" grant to help take them to the next level. 

Please visit the Grant Partner section of our website to view the list and learn about their projects.

ITP 2017 Grant Partner Xi Martinez with Earth Guardians. A remarkable young activist who is changing the climate game and we are proud to support his work!  Read his interview in Billboard here.

ITP Grant Partner Rainforest Connection uses an app to track illegal logging in the Amazonian rainforest.  Read the Digital Trends article here.