Dear Waverley Community,
As 2025 comes to a close, we’re holding deep gratitude for you and the communities we collectively serve. Your work makes a vibrant future feel more possible. In that spirit, we want to share reflections that are helping us orient towards the year ahead.
For many of our partners, this year’s climate impacts were not headlines but lived experience: extreme heat, storms, floods, and wildfires disrupting communities across the globe. These realities continue to amplify the importance of the work you’re doing and the systems we’re trying to build together.
Even in a hard year, there were real signs of progress. The world added more solar capacity in 2025 than in any previous year, battery storage doubled again, and wind power continued its steady global expansion. We’re also seeing a meaningful shift toward healthier, more sustainable food systems: from regenerative farming to school nutrition programs that now reach hundreds of millions of children. These are the building blocks of a more resilient future, and your work sits at the center of that momentum.
In 2025, we had the privilege of supporting more than 90 partner organizations. The examples below reflect just a small part of what was accomplished this year:
In Indonesia, our partners shared how many years of organizing helped smallholder farmers secure land, gain better economic security, and restore soil fertility.
On Hopi land, we witnessed how centuries-old tribal practices can grow better grains, and in California, small farmers shared with us the power of tailored guidance for more sustainable practices.
At the Artivism convening in Salvador, Brazil, artists and community leaders came together to help manifest the role that culture must play in climate action.
Globally, our partner research highlighted that the most impactful climate change message is not about extreme weather, green jobs, or innovation — it’s about protecting what we love, especially for future generations.
Gratitude for all we protect
Joy in the future we grow
As we look ahead to 2026, we’re pleased to share Waverley’s new Learning Hub. The Hub includes reflections from our first years of listening, testing, and adapting. It captures what’s working, what must evolve, and why trust, narrative, and joy matter as much as technology in creating lasting change.
It is an honor and a privilege to stand alongside so many dedicated, talented organizations working to cultivate health, justice and joy in service of a healing planet. In the spirit of sharing joy, we’d like to offer back to you some of the bounty you’ve shared with us in this year’s Inspiration Exchange. Enjoy these beautiful recommendations sourced from the Waverley Community and designed to widen our sense of possibility as we look to the year ahead.
Warmly,
Jared Blumenfeld
President, Waverley Street Foundation