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EFA launches Fundraising4Democracy resource hub

Stuart Mitchell

EFA has created a new resources hub to help fundraising professionals navigate the growing challenge of shrinking civic space, and mobilize support. The Fundraising4Democracy hub can be found on the EFA site, and brings together essential articles, toolkits, and case studies, as well as listing key events. It invites fundraising professionals to explore the materials to learn, act, and advocate. Many of the resource materials are accessible to all. They include links to EFA’s own Spotlight on civic space series, reports such as Philea’s 2025 Democracy Briefer for Funders: What’s…

Scientist Whose Biological Seed Treatments Helped Make Brazil A Global Breadbasket Named 2025 World Food Prize Laureate

Stuart Mitchell

Dr. Mariangela Hungria will receive the new World Food Prize Laureate $500,000 award for her work to harness biological processes to sustainably improve crop nutrition, yields and productivity. A scientist whose discoveries helped Brazil become a global agricultural powerhouse has been named the 2025 World Food Prize Laureate. Dr. Mariangela Hungria, a microbiologist from São Paulo, has developed dozens of biological seed and soil treatments that help crops source nutrients through soil bacteria, significantly increasing yields of major crops while also reducing the need for synthetic fertilizer. Her products are…

Triodos Bank UK awarded prestigious King’s Award for Sustainable Development

Stuart Mitchell

Triodos Bank UK has received the King’s Award for Enterprise in the Sustainable Development category.  Demonstrating a longstanding commitment to sustainability, it is the fourth time the bank has received the prestigious award for enterprise – attaining the Queen’s Award in 2004, 2010 and 2020, and now the King’s Award in 2025 – and is the only UK bank to have achieved the category accolade this many times.   The King’s Award for Sustainable Development is awarded for commercially successful products, services and management that benefit the environment, society and the…

Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa wins UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2025 causing Nicaragua to exit UNESCO

Stuart Mitchell

The Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa has been announced as the laureate of the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize 2025, on the recommendation of an international jury of media professionals. The award ceremony took place in Brussels, Belgium, on the sidelines of the World Conference on Press Freedom on 7 May 2025. The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano Prize is a tribute to all journalists who continue to inform us despite numerous risks and threats to their personal safety. Each year, this Prize reminds us of the importance of standing alongside those who…

84% of the world’s coral reefs impacted in the most intense global coral bleaching event ever

Stuart Mitchell

The most intense global coral bleaching event on record is still ongoing, according to scientists. One year on from the official declaration of the fourth global coral bleaching event by the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI), bleaching alerts continue to develop across the world.  From 1 January 2023 to 30 March 2025, bleaching-level heat stress impacted 84% of the world’s reefs, with 82 countries, territories and economies suffering damage. During the first global coral bleaching event in 1998, 21% of reefs experienced bleaching-level heat stress, rising to 37% in the…