Giving Green Research Group

We make high-impact climate giving easier, for everyone.

Who is Giving Green?

At Giving Green, our mission is to make high-impact climate giving easier for everyone.

If you’re reading this, you know climate change is an all-hands-on-deck crisis. Yet, only 2% of global philanthropy goes to climate mitigation, and plenty of funds go to projects that don’t actually move the needle. Why? One reason is that the most promising climate solutions are often the hardest to understand. We need solutions that don’t just win the race against time, but change entire systems. But, these solutions are often deeply complex or technical; they’re big bets with uncertain outcomes and need early and patient support.

For donors, reliable and clear information on where to give in climate must be easy to find, understand, and support. That’s why we focus on cutting through the noise and confusion to make climate giving decisions easy and, ultimately, more impactful.

Giving Green distills the complex landscape of systems change into actionable advice for donors. We find under-the-radar donation opportunities with the potential to make outsized impact, and our Giving Green Fund makes it easy for anyone to support a portfolio of high-impact opportunities. In the last five years, Giving Green has raised over $55 million for climate action and landed press mentions in Vox, the Atlantic, Time, and more. With a recently expanded team, greater grantmaking capacity, and our upcoming launch as a standalone nonprofit, we now need to lay a strong operational foundation for the work to come.