Impact

Planet Indonesia (PI) works in the culturally and ecologically rich region of Western Borneo, Indonesia. PI identifies sustainable profit-making strategies by founding communal business groups to help individuals increase local income and improve access to savings and loans systems to build local resilience and decrease environmental degradation. We use these communal business groups to facilitate conservation compacts between communities and our organization. These CCs provide tangible benefits to communities in exchange for effective conservation practices of high-priority species and areas.

Planet Indonesia embraces a “bottom-up” approach, helping constituents own every step of the planning, implementation, and managing of initiatives, as they understand this to be essential for long-lasting, sustainable change. The main goals of PI’s approach are to assist communities to achieve financial self-reliance and promote ecologically sound economic development. PI often refers to its method as a social fusion of development and environmental work. They believe there is a connection between economics, people, culture, and our environment. When these aspects fall out of balance, our world suffers. Planet Indonesia is a platform for social fusion as our method brings these pieces of life back into balance.

Planet Indonesia has been partnering with the Emerging Wildlife Conservation Leadership Program in the Gunung Niut Nature Reserve to support preservation of the endangered Helmeted Hornbill. This video tells more about their efforts.

Regions Impacted

Western Borneo, Indonesia

First Year of Support

2015

Testimonial

FSM is an innovative organization that believes solutions are driven and created by those most affected by global economic and environmental issues. Their support has enabled us to expand the reach of our programs to thousands of individuals facing the hardships of poverty that lead to environmental and cultural loss. Together with FSM, we have shown that listening to the needs of communities to provide services that adopt new conservation strategies is an effective way to create meaningful impact. FSM shows innovation not only in their investments but also in their grant-making strategies, which support impact-driven approaches with minimal hassles for their partners. [cite]Adam Miller, Executive Director and Founder of Planet Indonesia[/cite]

The Missouri Coalition for the Environment (MCE) is Missouri’s independent citizens’ environmental organization for clean water, clean air, clean energy, and a healthy environment. Believing that fairness, justice, and beauty will conquer greed, inequality, and violence, MCE also believes that the gifts of air, water, and land are meant to sustain all life and that these resources should be available to serve the public interest now and in the future, not sacrificed for short-term gain. MCE works to protect and restore the environment through education, public engagement, and legal action.

Since 2013 MCE has partnered with the Franciscan Sisters of Mary to advocate for the complete removal of the radioactive wastes illegally dumped in the West Lake Landfill not two miles from the sisters’ homes and offices.

MCE is also the parent organization to the St. Louis Food Policy Coalition and the Food Equity Advisory Board, which work to collaboratively address the challenges and inequities of our local food system.

Region Impacted

Missouri

First Year of Support

2013

Gateway Greening educates and empowers people to strengthen their communities through gardening and urban agriculture. Gateway Greening is a St. Louis-based organization devoted to helping residents plant and nurture organic, sustainable gardens in city neighborhoods, strengthening and empowering communities and using vacant land wisely.

First Year of Support

2013