I had the privilege of attending COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021. It was an amazing opportunity to hear directly from environmental action groups, environmental innovators, the United Nations, the World Health Organization, national and international organizations, nations and world leaders. They shared their plans, strategies and trajectories for navigating the climate crises and climate...
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Ascend Athletics is a global not-for-profit organization working in Afghanistan to empower young women through mountaineering-based leadership training. Recipients of a 2021 FAWCO Foundation Development Grant to create health materials for their target population of young women and their families, Ascend pivoted in August 2021 to assist its participants and their families in fleeing...
The thought, the very idea, that we could have a future without the staggering number of deaths from cancer (in 2020 approx. 10,000,000) seems impossible – but is it? We live in a time of amazing advancements in the care of cancer patients and more importantly, in the...
Typically, the Education Team focuses its energies on shining a spotlight on efforts, concerns and victories in underserved communities outside of the United States. However, with so much attention recently on the Black Lives Matter movement, the confusion over critical race theory, the disenfranchisement of Black voters through redistricting and restrictive voting practices...
The 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) or COP26 was held in Glasgow, Scotland from October 31–
November 12, 2021. FAWCO has Observer status at the UNFCCC and can register delegates to attend all COPs and the smaller mid-year UN climate meetings that take place in Bonn. FAWCO...