CASA Socio-Environmental Fund is a not-for-profit grantmaking institution that mobilizes and channels financial and capacity-building support to social and environmental initiatives of NGOs and community based groups in South America. Our strategy is to make many small and interconnected grants covering all the South American eco-regions. These small grants, allied with an integrated vision of the territory, generate significant impacts in a wide range of issues and regions. Throughout our 10 years, we have supported more than 1000 projects in 11 countries.
Forests and rivers do not respect country borders; most biomes extend across the territories of several countries. This is also how CASA works. We are a Brazilian based Fund that coordinates its grantmaking in South America in a way to guarantee that the impact generated really responds to the complexity of local reality, for we acknowledge that one single solution does not fit all. We work with a wide, and non-replicable, network of partners — a true social capital. We rely on people and institutions that have built, throughout decades of work and accumulated experience in South America, a true body of knowledge, able to detect precisely the vulnerabilities of each region and propose the most appropriate solutions.
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