Organizing Environmental Project Media for a Worldwide Team

Since 1993, Global Greengrants Fund has supported grassroots-led efforts to protect the planet and defend human rights. The foundation provides small grants to community-based environmental groups around the world, focusing on sustainability, conservation, and environmental justice.

Global Greengrants Fund is the only organization that places decision-making power directly in the hands of local communities — helping them protect their land, water, and biodiversity while ensuring the health of future generations.

For years, Global Greengrants Fund relied on a local server to store and manage its digital assets. As the organization grew, so did the database — eventually becoming unmanageable.

The communications team, which frequently needed visuals for reports, campaigns, and publications, spent hours searching for images across disorganized folders.

Poor asset management led to frustration, delays, and inefficiency across departments.

Global Greengrants Fund implemented Daminion to organize its extensive media archive and simplify day-to-day operations. The communications team now uses Daminion to quickly find, categorize, and share high-quality visuals for internal and external use.

The shift to Daminion introduced:

-> Smart navigation and advanced tagging, making image search fast and intuitive

-> Cloud access, allowing team members to work from anywhere in the world

-> Simplified sharing, enabling quick collaboration with external partners and media outlets

Daminion was chosen among other DAM systems because of its extended tagging capabilities. 

Before uploading, the team now reviews and categorizes all media to ensure the central catalog contains only high-quality, approved images.