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2023 Year End Newsletter: Messages from our Founder and CEO and Philippines Executive Director
November/December: Exciting Year End Funding Received
September: Nourish Tickets and Program Updates
August: Fellows Arrived, Program Updates, and Surpassing Our Annual Campaign Goal
July: Sowing Summer Surprises!
June: Celebrating Diversity During PRIDE Month and Updates from the Field
May: Impactful Month Full of Field Updates and More News
April: Welcome our New Philippines Executive Direcor Hal Atienza
March, 2023: Celebrating International Women’s Month and More
December: Updates from the Field, Nourish Celebration Highlights, Largest Grant Received!
July: July Campaign Announcement 2022
June: Updates from the Field, Welcome New Board and Team Members, Announcement Coming July 1!
May: Monthly Donor Happy Hour, Updates from the Field, and More!
April: New Website Launch, Stories from the Field, and Impact Graphics
December: Typhoon Long Term Recovery Fund Continues and Year End Reflections from the Team
November: Update from the Field, Nourish Highlights Video, and Posner Symposium Recap
October: Final Weeks of Discounted Nourish Tickets, Sargent Shriver Award, and Meet Farmer Ronel!
September: Save the Date for Virtual Nourish in November, Updates from the Field, and More!
June: Reflections from Our Founder and Welcome New Staff and Board Members
December 2020 Newsletter: Seeding New Beginnings and Happy Holidays
November 2020 Newsletter: A Call for Heroes During the Climate Crisis
September 2020 Newsletter: Seeds are the Past, Present, and Future
July 2020 Campaign Announcement
June, 2020: Happy Pride Month! Bringing People Together Through Seeds
April, 2020 Blog: Message from our Country Director- Aduyon Initiative
March, 2020: Unity Call Announcement
Blog Archive
The Search For A New Executive Director Begins!
We seek our next Philippine Executive Director to lead us into our next exciting chapter as an organization. The Philippines Executive Director is responsible for the leadership of all in-country aspects of the organization including Philippines financial...
A Message to the Global Seed Savers Community
Every year of my life, I try to pick up a lesson that becomes a theme. Some of the more significant ones have been: 2019 - withhold judgment 2020 - let go of control to make room for miracles 2021 - travel inward 2022 was a very tricky year to navigate. I once joked...
Karen Lee Hizola, Executive Director of Global Seed Savers Philippines is stepping away from the organization after 7 years of leadership.
Karen joined GSSP in 2016 and has been instrumental in our growth, development, and success over the last seven years. Karen led the expansion of our programs from our founding community in Tublay, Benguet to regions throughout the Philippines, in particular, leading...
GSS Goes To The Philippine Permaculture Convergence!
Last November 25 to 27, 2022, Efrenlito Cabbigat (Phil Program Manager), Harry (Cebu Seed Production Coordinator), Farmer Elizabeth Martin (Benguet Field Coordinator, BASS), and Farmer Adelwisa Remeticado Pacaña (Cebu Seed Savers) attended the 5th Philippine...
Successful Team Retreat Held in October in Pangasinan
It was so wonderful to all be together in person as a team during my trip to the Philippines in October and host a 3.5 day staff retreat. We have a renewed theory of change, more focused work plans to hone in on, and a restored commitment to our big audacious goals...
Reflection on the Seed School Teachers’ Training in Cebu
I am Elizabeth Martin. I am a seed saver and organic practitioner based here in Tawang, La Trinidad, Benguet. I am also the Field Coordinator of Global Seed Savers Philippines (GSSP). Last August 24-26, 2022, my companions from BASS and I went to Cebu to attend a...