Posted on July 8, 2025
For rainforest preservation: CREDO Mobile makes a difference
Recently, we sent a grant to Rainforest Foundation US (RFUS), which will use the funding in its fight to protect the rainforests of Central America and the Amazon in partnership with Indigenous peoples, who are the best guardians of those vital, carbon-storing rainforests.
We’re longtime supporters of RFUS and we’ll continue to stand with them as they address some of the world’s most urgent challenges, including deforestation, biodiversity loss and land rights.
Working together, we’re making a difference
Donations from CREDO Mobile have powered a number of recent successes by RFUS. With support from CREDO Mobile and other partners, the nonprofit has helped secure rights to over 42 million acres of forests and lands since 1988. This is vital, because deforestation rates are lower on lands managed by Indigenous communities who hold rights and titles to their lands.
RFUS currently supports 200-plus Indigenous communities and organizations, because strong communities and organizations are more resilient and sustainable. RFUS provides direct financing and co-design strategies to its partners to assist them in protecting their lands —a nd our planet.
To date, RFUS has helped protect more than 19 million acres of forests through monitoring efforts through programs like RFUS’s Rainforest Alert, integrating newer technologies (like drones, satellite, and mobile phones) with traditional forest-monitoring practices to stop deforestation more effectively. In fact, in the first year alone, communities implementing Rainforest Alert saw a 52% reduction in forest loss.
RFUS is committed to growing participation by Indigenous women in territorial governance and in Rainforest Alert. Since Rainforest Alert was launched, the number of women monitors has grown from three to 26 (out of a total of 236 monitors), with women now actively training one another to further scale up their participation.
For more on women’s involvement in forest monitoring, read the RFUS blog post Indigenous Women Rising, which describes the ways Indigenous women are breaking barriers, taking their place on the frontlines and driving the effort to protect their forests, preserve their cultures and shape the future of our planet.
RFUS is working to stop destruction by miners
Gold mining is a threat to any rainforest. Illegal and unregulated mining in Guyana’s South Rupununi region is causing widespread environmental destruction, as well as a surge in malaria cases. RFUS is working with its partners to increase monitoring of mining activities and to secure long-term protection for the lands and waterways of the Wapichan Indigenous people of northern Brazil and southern Guyana, regions of extreme biological richness and diversity.
RFUS is securing land rights to sustain vital CO2 sinks
RFUS’s land rights work in Peru, Brazil, Guyana and Panama has helped preserve a net annual carbon sink of 9.8 million metric tons of CO2 emissions, which is equivalent to the annual emissions of 2 million gas vehicles. RFUS’s partnership with Indigenous peoples advances nature-based carbon sequestration. Forests protected by Indigenous peoples have lower rates of deforestation and remain strong carbon sinks.
RFUS is growing the campaign to protect rainforests
With support from CREDO Mobile funding and other sources, RFUS is now in the process of expanding land-titling efforts in Peru by approximately 1 million acres, among other programs. The Loreto regional government — a region that includes almost a third of Peru’s total territory—is working closely with RFUS and its partners to seize this moment and ensure Indigenous communities have legal recognition of their lands. With regional government changes anticipated in 2026, this is an ideal time to initiate these intra organizational and governmental collaborations .
CREDO Mobile members are making it happen
Rainforest Foundation US is able to carry out this important work in part thanks to CREDO Mobile members who do one thing: use our service. And the more members we have, the more we can support RFUS — and the dozens of other progressive nonprofits we fund every year. These donations cost our members nothing but they mean everything to the groups that rely on us.
If you’re a CREDO Mobile member, thank you. If you’re not a member yet, please join us. You’ll get all you want from your mobile service: money-saving data plans, great deals on new devices and superfast coverage on the nation’s largest 5G network.
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Posted on July 7, 2025
Donations spotlight: Support Feeding America, the nation’s leading hunger-relief nonprofit
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This July, Feeding America is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support the group in its work to build a hunger-free America, where all have enough food to eat.
Read this important message from Feeding America, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding July grantees.
Throughout the nation, local food banks and their community partners work tirelessly to make sure no one goes to bed hungry. Yet, right now, the number of people facing hunger exceeds pandemic-era rates.
On average, 1 in 5 children are experiencing hunger but, in some counties, nearly 50% of children are food insecure. Historically, hunger has been exacerbated by summer breaks, when students are no longer receiving school lunches. Now, with the high cost of groceries and ongoing cuts to federal funding, we anticipate that the number of families and children facing hunger will increase in severity.
Feeding America is poised to meet the need—wherever and whenever it arises. We do this as a nationwide network of 200 food banks, 21 statewide food bank associations and 60,000 food pantries and meal programs. Collectively, we serve tens of millions of people facing food insecurity every year, in every zip code of the U.S. Last year alone, Feeding America provided 5.9 billion meals. That’s enough to give everyone in the U.S. 173 meals each.
We’re committed to providing healthy food and a dignified charitable food experience to anyone who seeks our services.
And we don’t stop there
Feeding America is dedicated to tackling the root causes that lead to hunger and poverty. As a national organization with hyper-local ties, we’re uniquely situated to implement programs recommended by experts on hunger—people with lived experience. We leverage insight from neighbors with lived experience and then invest in innovative solutions to increase equitable access to nutritious food, advocate for legislation that improves food security and work to address factors that impact food security, such as health, cost of living and employment.
In addition to food sourcing and distribution, some other areas of our work that you may not be aware of include but are not limited to the following:
- Disaster response. When disaster strikes, people experiencing food insecurity are often hit the hardest. As one of the nation’s largest disaster relief organizations, we’re there before, during and after a disaster to help communities get food and emergency assistance.
- Food as medicine. We address health conditions caused or exacerbated by inadequate diets. Working through partnerships with members of the Feeding America network, we train healthcare providers to spot the signs of food insecurity, screen patients during healthcare visits and connect them to food-assistance resources as needed.
- Workforce development. Across the Feeding America network, food banks are engaging in workforce development. As trusted community anchors, they’re uniquely positioned to collaborate with local workforce providers, employers, educational institutions and service organizations. While food banks lead these efforts locally, Feeding America helps to equip them with tools to help bridge service gaps, expand opportunities and ensure that employment pathways are accessible and sustainable. At the end of the day, our work is about so much more than just food. It is about ensuring that everyone has both the resources—and the hope—they need to thrive.
- Advocacy. Advocacy is the act of supporting or promoting policies that lead to positive change. At Feeding America, advocacy means working alongside neighbors and our nationwide network to champion public policies that reduce hunger and improve food and nutrition security. We amplify the voices of those most affected by hunger and engage them in shaping policies at all levels of government. Our advocacy efforts focus on ensuring access to nutritious food, building resilient local food systems and addressing the root causes of hunger.
We’re working to save SNAP
The topic of advocacy is a timely one, as we find ourselves in a historic moment for the charitable food system. On May 14, 2025, the House Agriculture Committee approved budget reconciliation legislation that would cut $300 billion over 10 years in funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—our nation’s most effective federal food program. If enacted, these proposed cuts would take vital support away from millions of our neighbors, including children, seniors and veterans.
Now is the time to join together, spread the word and support the movement. Every gift, every voice, every action matters more than ever, as cuts to federal funding will mean that fewer people facing hunger will be able to access the food and healthcare that we all need to thrive. By protecting and improving programs like SNAP and Medicaid, we can ensure that every individual has the chance to live a healthy life and prioritize wellbeing.
Thank you to our friends at CREDO Mobile for providing us with this opportunity to highlight our mission and share more about our work.
You can join our movement here. You can learn more about hunger in America here. You can find your local food bank here.
Posted on July 7, 2025
Donations spotlight: Help the Center for Economic and Policy Research expose the heist in Washington and protect programs that serve working people
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This July, the Center for Economic and Policy Research is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support CEPR in its work to promote democratic debate on the important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives—and Expose the Heist happening in Washington now.
Read this important message from CEPR, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding July grantees.
The federal government is in a precarious state, with entire agencies and major social safety net programs under threat. With so many sweeping changes happening at once, it can be difficult to know where to get a clear understanding of the issues and then to know which policies best support everyday people.
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) has a 25-year history of cutting through the noise to highlight the true effects of government policy. Our research is based on real numbers and straightforward analysis so that policymakers—and the everyday people who rely on them—understand how economic policy impacts workers, their families and their communities.
Attacks on our social safety net are bringing real pain to real people
Right now, some of the most important social safety net programs in the country are under assault. Programs like Medicaid and Social Security, which keep millions of people out of poverty and provide them with life-saving medical care. Like the disaster-preparedness and recovery programs of FEMA and other agencies, which protect vulnerable communities from the devastating effects of climate change. Public lands, public data and public health have all been gutted. Even the U.S. Postal Service is on the chopping block.
Meanwhile, lawmakers are hard at work enabling powerful and wealthy special interests to lay waste to our shared economy. Medicare “Advantage” programs funnel taxpayer money to private insurance companies at the expense of patient care. Private equity firms are given free-rein to gamble with workers’ hard-earned pensions. And the Trump administration is weakening consumer protections in the already barely regulated cryptocurrency market. Through it all, Elon Musk’s DOGE department is running up a bill that working families will have to pay.
CEPR is standing up for working Americans
There is certainly a lot of bad news out there but there is good news too: CEPR is fighting back. Our researchers challenge false narratives and expose the corruption in Washington to protect the programs that serve working people. Right now, we’re focusing on these vital areas:
Defending disaster preparedness
Climate change-related disasters are more common every year and vulnerable communities across the country rely on FEMA and other government agencies to support them when a disaster strikes. CEPR climate analyst Matt Sedlar writes about the importance of these programs. When wildfires ravaged Los Angeles, he called attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to fire protection and how they now put more communities at risk in the future. Sedlar also highlighted the importance of BRIC, an under-the-radar FEMA program ended by the Trump administration that gave funding to at-risk communities for preventative measures, helped them improve infrastructure and address risks posed by future disasters.
Protecting Medicaid
It is no secret that Republican lawmakers want to cut Medicaid, the program that provides healthcare coverage to 83 million low-income Americans. CEPR co-director and health policy expert Eileen Appelbaum writes about how these cuts will hurt healthcare for everyone, even people who aren’t on Medicaid. Max Sawicky explains how “block grants” are just a deceptive way of saying “cuts to Medicaid.” And Emma Curchin exposes the phony arguments behind proposed work requirements for Medicaid recipients: the truth is that most Medicaid beneficiaries already work.
Uncovering real government waste: Medicare Advantage
If policymakers truly wanted to make the government more efficient, they could start with Medicare Advantage programs. Medicare Advantage pays private insurance corporations to care for patients with taxpayer dollars. The program provides a set amount for each patient, which incentivizes those corporations to withhold care, because the less money they spend on actual healthcare, the more they get to keep as profit. CEPR’s Brandon Novick writes about ending the program to make healthcare better and more efficient for everyone, instead of allowing private companies to keep sucking up taxpayer dollars.
CEPR will continue to fight for all Americans
CEPR was founded in 1999 and one of our very first efforts was combating the misinformation warning of a phony “crisis” in Social Security. Decades later, the names and dates have changed but the need for clear and accurate policy research is the same—and we’ll keep providing it.
Vote for CEPR in July’s CREDO Mobile donations election and you’ll help us continue pushing back against false narratives and exposing the way the economy is rigged in favor of those at the top.
Learn more about CEPR’s work to “Expose the Heist” here.
Posted on July 1, 2025
CREDO Mobile is supporting: Center For Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Feeding America, and Stand.earth this July.
In July, CREDO Mobile is supporting: Center For Economic and Policy Research (CEPR), Feeding America, and Stand.earth. As we do every month, we will allocate the donations will be allocated according to the votes tallied at www.credodonations.com. You can vote for 1, 2, or all 3 nonprofits. The more votes a non-profit gets, the larger share of the donation they will receive.
Center for Economic and Policy Research
CEPR fights for economic justice everywhere. We provide progressive research and ideas to push Congress for economic policy that empowers all people to prosper, not just those at the top. CEPR does vital work to expose how powerful interests are rigging the system against everyday workers. Together, we can stop corporate profiteering, protect key programs across the government, and hold policy makers accountable.
Feeding America
Feeding America fights hunger at its roots—rescuing food, supporting local communities, driving policy change, and tackling barriers like poverty and inequality to create lasting impact beyond the meal. Feeding America doesn’t just help source food, it fuels advocacy efforts as we fight to protect federal nutrition programs, and powers disaster relief—amplifying efforts that reach millions of people facing hunger across the U.S.
Stand.earth
For 25 years, Stand.earth has taken on powerful governments and corporations – and won. With bold, proven strategies, we drive real climate solutions at the scale this crisis demands. We don’t back down, because our lives depend on it. Stand.earth protects forests, stops fossil fuel expansion, and pushes for bold climate solutions that will power our planet with clean, renewable energy.
Now more than ever, progressive nonprofits need all the help they can get. These donations are funded by our CREDO Mobile customers. If you are a CREDO Mobile customer, thank you. If you are not, check out CREDO Mobile and see how your mobile phone can make a difference in the world.
Posted on July 1, 2025
Donations spotlight: Support Stand.earth as it delivers large-scale solutions to environmental problems worldwide
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This July, Stand.earth is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support the group as it challenges governments and corporations to make the health of our communities, our environment and our climate the top priority.
Read this important message from Stand.earth, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding July grantees.
This year marks a quarter-century since the seeds of Stand.earth were planted. From a small group of activists with big dreams gathered under a canopy of towering trees, we have grown together into a strong and enduring organization that challenges corporations and governments to treat people and the environment with respect—because our lives depend on it.
And we win. Whether you’re new to Stand (welcome!) or you’ve been with us since the beginning, you are part of Stand’s success. Thank you.
Together with our million-member-strong community, our international environmental advocacy organization has:
- Protected tens of millions of acres of endangered forests through government agreements.
- Shifted billions of investment dollars into clean, renewable energy projects and away from dirty fossil fuels.
- Empowered over 210 North American cities to pass innovative climate policies.
- Delayed or stopped 21 dirty oil and gas mega-projects from being built.
- Transformed the supply chains of sector-leading brands like Levi’s, Starbucks and 3M to set new sector standards to reduce pollution and protect the environment.
Stand is just getting started
In the past few months alone, Stand has celebrated many important victories. We secured a commitment from Lululemon to power 50% of its supply chain with renewable electricity and ditch coal by 2030. We worked with government leaders and advocates across North America to pass new local policies that are cutting pollution from buildings. We published the latest edition of our Fossil-Free Fashion Scorecard, which creates visibility into the carbon footprint of top apparel and footwear brands. And we launched the Fracked Plastics Map, a new interactive tool that exposes the toxic supply chain fueling global plastic production.
These victories and the many others of the past 25 years came against huge challenges, proving that Stand doesn’t back down from a fight. We were sued by one of the largest logging companies in the world for $300 million. We beat that lawsuit and came out even stronger on the other side. Legal challenges? Government scare tactics? Industry intimidation? Death threats? We’ve faced them all. For 25 years, we haven’t backed down. And we’re not going to start now.
We also know that winning is about more than fighting. Yes, Stand has a signature style of bold public actions that we leverage in moments when creating media buzz or mobilizing people power are the right strategies. But we pride ourselves on moving from conflict to collaboration. After all, we need as many allies as possible in order to drive change at the scale required.
Whether we’re protecting old-growth forests from irresponsible logging, reducing demand for fossil fuels around the world and stopping harmful projects in their tracks, giving cities the tools they need to make their communities safe from fossil fuels or changing the face of a polluting, carbon-dependent global transportation industry, we’ve spurred corporations and governments to embrace meaningful change.
In our effort to secure a healthy, thriving future for everyone on Earth—our one and only home—we’ve succeeded time and time again. We’ve done it by drawing undeniable links between specific corporate and governmental behavior and ongoing environmental crises, putting pressure on the people who can fix them and offering guidance, support and actionable plans to key decision-makers as they transition to responsible long-term solutions.
Our first 25 years are just the beginning and our work has never been more urgently needed than now. The second half of this decade will present unprecedented challenges and even higher stakes but Stand was made for this moment. We’ll continue to hone field-tested strategies, try out inventive tactics, seek unlikely allies, and let data and breakthrough research lead the way on the next big challenges and the next innovative solutions. Because Stand’s 25th anniversary isn’t just a time for reflection; it’s a declaration of what’s to come. Let’s go!
Your vote for us through CREDO Mobile is a vote in support of a climate-safe, fossil-free future in which governments, corporations and infrastructure serve the needs of our planet and its people. Thank you. To learn more, visit Stand.earth or follow us on Facebook, Instagram and LinkedIn.
Posted on June 25, 2025
On the anniversary of Obergefell, let’s remember our power to make change
June 26 is the 10-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges, a decision that made same-sex marriage legal across the U.S.
In the decade since, our society has changed. Hundreds of thousands of same-sex couples have married. And millions more LGBTQ+ people now feel a greater sense of inclusion, validation and well-being.
As Jim Obergefell said recently, the right to marry “made millions of people feel more part of ‘we the people.’” It gave them hope—and it continues to give hope to LGBTQ+ Americans everywhere.
It certainly gives us hope. It should give you hope too. Hope for equal rights, yes. But, beyond that, hope for the future of our country.
Because Obergefell shows that, over time, with belief and hard work, those of us who care about justice, fairness and democracy can win—even when the challenge seems insurmountable.
For marriage equality, it seemed damn near impossible. In 2004, two-thirds of Americans opposed same-sex marriage. Conservatives put same-sex marriage bans on the ballot in 13 states—and won in all 13.
But now look. Two-thirds of Americans support marriage equality. It’s the law nationwide.
Working together, we did this. And we can do it again. We can fight and win for any cause we believe in.
That’s what CREDO Mobile stands for. Not just great mobile service for you but a better America for all of us. That’s why we’ve donated over $15 million to nonprofit groups working for equality and civil rights. Groups like the National LGBTQ Task Force, the Transgender Law Center and the ACLU.
Will you stand with us? Join CREDO Mobile and you’ll get all you want from your mobile service: money-saving data plans, great deals on new devices and superfast coverage on the nation’s largest 5G network.
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Posted on June 10, 2025
Traveling this summer? When you return, prepare your devices for search at the U.S. border
Going abroad is exciting. And, in today’s America, coming back can be exciting too. But not in a good way. In a nerve-racking way. In a “I’m sweating and fidgeting and I’m sure I look guilty and I haven’t even done anything” way.
If you’ve been watching the news, you’ve seen the stories. Travelers returning to the U.S. are being put through the wringer by officers of Customs and Border Protection. Often, CBP agents are focusing on devices, accessing phones and laptops and going through them with a fine-tooth comb. If they don’t like what they see, they could confiscate those devices.
Chances are you won’t be stopped. The number of people who get searched is small and Homeland Security claims the number is not higher this year than last. That may be so (the data isn’t in yet) but there is plenty of anecdotal evidence that searches are, if not more frequent, different now. They’re more thorough, they’re aimed at new targets and they can be more judgmental.
Sometimes, it seems, what they’re judging is your politics. In March, CBP officers stopped and searched a French scientist traveling to a conference near Houston, went through his laptop and phone and found messages critical of the current administration’s research policy. He was put on a plane back to Europe the next day—without his phone and laptop, which were confiscated.
He was not a U.S. citizen, of course, and so had fewer rights at the border than a U.S. citizen does. If you’re a U.S. citizen, you can’t legally be barred from the U.S. at a port of entry. But you can still be put through a hassle.
These are your rights (fewer than you might think)
The 4th Amendment protects U.S. citizens from “unreasonable searches and seizures” but at the border not so much. CBP officers have broad powers to search you and your property, including your devices. They don’t need a warrant or probable cause. They can open your devices and access your messages, emails, social media accounts, contacts, photos and other personal data. If you refuse to give access, CBP may take your phone and laptop and keep them indefinitely. CBP can’t deny you entry to the U.S. but it can delay or detain you.
CBP officers do two types of device searches: basic and advanced. In a basic search, they go through your device and review whatever they find. In an advanced search, they hook up your device to their equipment “not merely to gain access to the device but to review, copy and/or analyze its contents.” Advanced searches are supposed to be done only when there is “reasonable suspicion” that you’ve violated the law or you’re a national security risk. But the current administration has expanded the definition of national security risk to include remarks critical of the administration, as demonstrated by the deportation of that French scientist.
So what happens if you refuse to give access to your devices? As noted, CBP can’t deny you entry to the U.S. if you’re a citizen but it can seize your devices and possibly delay your travel.
To avoid all that, there are steps you should take to scrub your devices before you reenter the country. So if you are unlucky enough to be pulled aside for a search, there won’t be anything for CBP to find.
Turn off your phone
Courts have ruled that there’s a difference between a passcode and a face or fingerprint scan. If CBP agents ask for your passcode, that’s considered compulsion of your testimony—and compulsion of verbal testimony is prohibited by the 5th Amendment. But a face or fingerprint scan is not considered testimony and is not protected.
If you switch off your phone when approaching customs, CBP agents who want to search it will have to switch it on and ask for your passcode to get beyond the lockscreen. This adds a layer of difficulty for agents. They’re allowed to ask for your passcode but you’re not required to give it. If you refuse, though, agents can seize your phone or other device and keep it indefinitely.
If you don’t have a passcode on your phone, think about adding one before you travel.
Sanitize your devices
If you’re worried that content on your phone could be troublesome or misconstrued, delete it. That goes for photos, texts, emails, contacts and social media posts.
If you have content you want to keep, upload it to the cloud before you delete it, then download it later. CBP is not allowed to use your device to access data stored remotely.
Take a different phone
If you have a phone other than your primary, think about bringing that one. This will save you the bother of deleting personal content. But make sure the backup phone is also scrubbed of contacts, photos, texts and social media apps.
You could buy a burner phone and take it with you. Keep in mind that if you’re traveling with a phone that has no content and only a few apps, this may be a red flag for CPB. But a lot of people do it and there are perfectly reasonable explanations for why.
CREDO Mobile cares about privacy. That’s why we support the ACLU, whose Privacy and Technology division defends your right to privacy and protects you against surveillance technologies. And Fight for the Future, which advocates technology as a force for liberation, not oppression.
We share your values and we work for them every day. We fight for causes like climate action, abortion rights and an economy that works for all of us. To date, we’ve donated over $95 million to hundreds of progressive nonprofits, including Friends of the Earth, Reproductive Freedom For All and the National LGBTQ Task Force.
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Posted on June 9, 2025
Enjoy some good news about the amazing work Earth Guardians is doing
Last year, CREDO Mobile made a donation to Earth Guardians. Earth Guardians is an international trailblazer in youth development for climate justice solutions, especially among marginalized groups and those most affected. They utilize education, training, community building, and direct action to shift power into the hands of the next generation.
We wanted to share this update with you, our members, who make it possible for CREDO Mobile to donate to organizations working for the planet, like Earth Guardians.
Earth Guardians celebrates the incredible progress we’ve made so far in 2025. Thanks to our global youth network, hundreds of new climate leaders have taken action in their communities. Enjoy some good news as you read about our progress this year!
- We onboarded 10 new active Crews, expanding our global network to 110 Crews with 1,075 registered members.
- For Earth Day, we launched a global campaign featuring the panel “Decolonizing Our Relationship with Nature” and a global tree-planting action, using the hashtag #OneEarthOneTree.
- Our 2024 Project Grant program funded 65 grassroots initiatives in 23 countries, directly reaching 16,128 people and indirectly impacting 82,705. Over 55% of projects supported SDGs 11, 13, and 15, focusing on climate action, food justice, and reforestation.
- Fair Water Footprints (FWF): In 2025, we secured funding for our “Fair Water Footprints” project, which aims to raise awareness and build youth capacity around the global water crisis and the impacts of international trade.
- Sierra Leone Mangrove Conservation: Nearing completion on Bonthe Island: 150,000 mangroves have been planted, 500 beehives will be installed by September, and 500+ locals were trained in marine conservation, aquaculture, beekeeping, and climate resilience.
- Togo Agroecology Initiative: From March 2025 to February 2026, we’ll train 200 people, plant 2,500 trees, and establish a 4-village knowledge-sharing network to boost food sovereignty and soil regeneration.
- Togo Reforestation – Tagba Forest Expansion: In partnership with the World Rainforest Fund, we’re adding 5–10 hectares to Tagba Forest, planting 5,000 to 7000 native trees, and supporting sustainable agroforestry income-generating activities, launching in June 2025.
- Launched the Earth Voices Podcast and the Science, Policy, and Traditional Knowledge virtual series our most popular series to date.
- Our upcoming project, the Earth Guardians Resource Portal, will centralize over 30 years of our most effective resources into a unified space for mentorship, certified learning, and career-building tools.
Earth Guardians is able to carry out this important work in part thanks to CREDO Mobile members who do one thing: use our service.
If you’re a CREDO Mobile member, thank you. And tell your friends about the great work that Earth Guardians is doing. If you’re not a member yet, please join us. You’ll get all you want from your mobile service: money-saving data plans, great deals on new devices and superfast coverage on the nation’s largest 5G network.
And you’ll get much more. You’ll get a powerful way to support Climate Justice whenever you use your phone.
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Posted on June 9, 2025
Donations spotlight: Help Transgender Law Center’s trans-led movement for liberation
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This June, Transgender Law Center is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support TLC as it champions the right of all transgender and gender-nonconforming people to make their own choices and live freely, safely and authentically.
Read this important message from TLC, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding June grantees.
Transgender Law Center is the largest national trans-led organization advocating self-determination for all people. Since 2002, we’ve been organizing, assisting, informing and empowering thousands of individual community members toward a long-term, national, trans-led movement for liberation.
As we witness the rise of authoritarianism and increased backlash toward Black, Indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) and LGBTQ communities—particularly attacks on trans communities of color—it is more important than ever to advance community-driven strategies that build on trans knowledge, power and joy.
Mariah Moore, director of policy and programs at Transgender Law Center, recently spoke at the Freedom to Be rally in Washington, D.C. Her speech, below, has been lightly edited for this blog post.
A message of resilience and hope from Mariah Moore
I am deeply honored to be here today, representing the South and, more importantly, representing all those who are fighting for trans justice in some of the most hostile states in this country. I speak today as an activist and as a proud Black trans woman from New Orleans, Louisiana, who knows firsthand what it means to survive and to lead with love.
When I think of Freedom to Be, I imagine a world where we are no longer forced to explain our existence; where our brilliance is celebrated not criminalized; where our care, our joy and our truth are not acts of resistance but simply acts of living. I imagine Black trans children growing up free from boxes, free from binaries and free from fear. I imagine us whole. And I know that world is possible because we’re building it.
Black trans women have always led. Even when no one said our names, we were at the frontlines fighting, organizing, creating—not because it was easy or because we were invited but because we knew, deep in our bones, that no one was coming to save us but us. That’s the legacy we carry: a legacy of care for our community.
At Transgender Law Center, our Black Trans Circles program is just one example of how we are reclaiming healing and leadership. We know that organizing without healing is unsustainable. So we’re creating spaces where Black trans women can not only survive but breathe, rest, grieve and dream. Because we are worthy of that.
Trans people, especially Black trans people, have always been part of this country’s story. Even when we didn’t have the words, we existed. In the kitchens, the fields, the ballrooms, the back pews, we were there. We are not new. And we are not going anywhere.
This moment asks us to remember that we are the dreams of our ancestors. We carry their strength. And every time we choose to show up, to speak out, to build community, we are saying we’re still here.
And for those of us who stay and fight in places where leaving isn’t an option, we dig deep. In Louisiana, we organize block by block. We show up for each other when systems don’t. We cook for each other, hold space for each other and celebrate each other’s wins, no matter how small. We build joy in the cracks of a system that wants to break us. That is what resilience really looks like.
So I say this to every trans person fighting to be free: You are not alone. You are powerful. You are loved. And you are already enough.
Black Trans Circles: A program of Transgender Law Center
Black Trans Circles develops the leadership of Black trans women in the South and Midwest through the creation of healing justice spaces to work through oppression-based trauma and incubate community-organizing efforts to address anti-trans murder and violence.
Rather than push for solutions outside the community, BTC is unique in that it focuses on strengthening the relationships, skills and power of Black trans women. BTC utilizes preexisting networks at the local level to combat isolation and powerlessness.
To learn more about Black Trans Circles and all of Transgender Law Center’s work, please visit us at TransgenderLawCenter.org.
Posted on June 8, 2025
Donations spotlight: Support the Brennan Center for Justice in its fight to save our democracy
Note from the CREDO Mobile team: This June, the Brennan Center for Justice is among three amazing nonprofits that will receive a share of our monthly grant. Funding from the CREDO Mobile community will support the Brennan Center as it fights for equal justice and the rule of law and works for reforms that will make American democracy work—for all of us.
Read this important message from the Brennan Center, then visit CREDO Donations and cast your vote to help send vital grant money to the group to assist its efforts—and the efforts of our other outstanding June grantees.
Attacks on the rule of law—on judges, on law firms, on news organizations, on universities, on civil rights laws, on voting rights enforcement—are threatening American democracy. What we’re seeing is a relentless drive for unchecked executive power. And everything is on the line.
The Brennan Center for Justice was made for this moment. We’re a nonpartisan legal and policy institute, the oldest in the country dedicated to strengthening democracy. We stand up for the Constitution. We stand up for the rule of law. We stand up for the country we love. And we won’t back down.
This moment demands innovation and new strategies. The Brennan Center—part think tank, part advocacy and legal group, part communications hub—has the expertise, the research and the mettle to devise and deliver solutions to defend democracy and improve it. To do this, we collaborate with a vast network of individuals and organizations like CREDO Mobile. These relationships span the political spectrum and make all of us stronger as, together, we protect democracy.
Here’s what we’re doing.
Fighting abuse of executive power
When a president declares an emergency to sidestep the rule of law and deny due process, it isn’t just wrong—it’s illegal. We have the nation’s leading experts on emergency powers and their expertise is helping us respond with force and focus to this administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act. This wartime statute was last used to intern Japanese nationals and others during World War II. Its use during peacetime to strip away the right to fair court hearings is disgraceful. The Brennan Center and our allies are part of the legal effort pushing back on its use and making sure the Constitution is followed.
Brennan Center litigators and experts are also intervening in constitutional crises. We’re working to stop the executive branch’s assault on federal agencies—an unconstitutional seizure of powers that belong to Congress. We’re leading friend-of-the-court brief campaigns in major cases about the fate of these agencies as they head toward the Supreme Court.
Protecting the right to vote
The Brennan Center has a long history of fighting to preserve this keystone of a functional democracy. Right now we’re at the forefront of opposition to the SAVE Act—which would be the worst voting law passed by Congress. It would require citizens to produce a passport or birth certificate to register or reregister to vote. Our research shows that more than 21 million citizens don’t have ready access to these documents. The bill passed in the House, so we’re pushing for senators to stand firm and block it.
Along with co-counsel, we have taken the administration to court on behalf of the League of Women Voters and others over the voting executive order, specifically the SAVE Act-like requirement. In May, we won a preliminary injunction against that requirement.
Advocating for reforms
We know our systems need reform so that they are fair, free and work for everyone.
We are pushing for 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, with an ethics code, so the highest court can uphold the Constitution with far less partisanship and more accountability to the public.
Our work on criminal justice reform fights fear with facts—and brings together the left and right to ensure that public safety and fairness go hand in hand.
And as campaign donors play unprecedented roles in the federal government, we continue to focus on reducing the influence of money on politics, one of the Brennan Center’s first issues when we began three decades ago.
Working and winning for democracy
When the Brennan Center was founded in his name, Supreme Court Justice William Brennan Jr. said, “I know that the battle will not be easy. But I also know that, with your support, dedication and guidance, it will be won.”
Please join us in this battle. Your vote for the Brennan Center in this month’s CREDO Mobile donations election will help us secure American democracy’s future.
