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Table of Contents
- How I look pulling up to y’all …
- 👉🏾 Explore the Airtable
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Meme-ry + Up …
- We choose conviction over chaos and determination …
How I look pulling up to y’all inbox this week😏
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 20+
- Job Opps: 75+ 🤯
- Contract Opps: 12+
👉🏾 Explore the Airtable of full opportunities here.
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Housing Venture Lab - 2025 Ideas Fellowship by Terner Labs 🏡
- Who it's for: A six-month fellowship for early-stage entrepreneurs and startups tackling affordable housing challenges. The fellow provides funding, mentorship, and access to resources to move from concept to pilot.
- Grant Amount: $75,000
- Deadline: 2/24/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- The 2025 J.M.K. Innovation Prize by J.M. Kaplan Fund
- Who it's for: Supports early-stage, transformative projects in heritage conservation, climate solutions, and social justice with funding, technical assistance, and strategic guidance.
- Grant Amount: $150,000
- Deadline: 4/25/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Building Bridges – 2025 Grant Cycle by Mosaic
- Who it's for: Funding collaborative projects, coalitions, and networks that strengthen movement infrastructure, build narrative power, break down silos, and defend democracy in climate and environmental justice movements.
- Grant Amount: $50,000 - $300,000
- Deadline: 3/5/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Environmental Justice Thriving Communities Grantmaking by the Bullard Center for Environmental and Climate Justice at Texas Southern University
- Who it's for: This funding supports community-driven environmental and climate justice initiatives in historically underserved and disadvantaged areas. Subgrants address diverse issues, from local cleanups and air quality to workforce development and disaster resilience. Administered through a committee of environmental justice leaders, the program aims to remove longstanding barriers to federal funding and ensure resources effectively reach frontline communities.
- Grant Amount: $40 million total allocation over three years with the following award tiers:
- Noncompetitive: $75,000 (1 year) for severely capacity-constrained organizations
- Tier I (Competitive): $150,000 (1 year) – assessment projects
- Tier II (Competitive): $250,000 (1 or 2 years) – planning projects
- Tier III (Competitive): $350,000 (2 years) – development and implementation projects
- Deadline: 2/13/25
- How to Apply: Click Here
👉🏾👉🏾👉🏾 Visit this Airtable for all funding opps.
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Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Manager, Climate Resilience
- Organization: Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES)
- Location: Washington D.C. or Remote
- Description: The Manager, Climate Resilience, will play a key role in delivering the Climate Resilient Communities Accelerator, a multi-year initiative supporting communities in addressing climate hazards, aligning public and private resources, and fostering policy innovation and economic development. The Manager will oversee project execution, stakeholder engagement, event planning, strategic outreach, and program expansion. This role requires expertise in climate resilience, adaptation strategies, and interdisciplinary approaches to climate challenges. The Manager will work closely with C2ES leadership and external partners, including governments, nonprofits, and businesses.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $80,000 - $100,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Associate, Climate
- Organization: Barr Foundation
- Location: Boston, MA
- Description: The Program Associate, Climate, will provide programmatic and administrative support to the Climate team at the Barr Foundation. The role involves project management, grantmaking support, operations, and communications, helping to track and manage internal deadlines, coordinate external events, and maintain data systems. The ideal candidate is highly organized and proactive and has strong attention to detail, project management skills, and a commitment to climate action and racial equity.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $74,000 - $80,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Assistant Director Internal Organizing
- Organization: Service Employees International Union (SEIU)
- Location: Remote
- Description: Lead and implement the strategy for SEIU’s member strength and offense programs within the Public Services Division. You’ll develop campaigns to build a robust member army of leaders and activists, guide key locals in organizing efforts, and ensure projects are evaluated through a racial justice lens. You will also manage staff, coordinate across departments, and oversee program budgets—all while operating with a high degree of independence in politically sensitive environments.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $129,074
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Finance Manager
- Organization: Restoration Climate Capital
- Location: In-person in Manhattan, NY
- Description: Restoration Climate Capital is seeking a Finance Manager to oversee accounting and financial operations, support trading and investment activities, and ensure financial compliance in the fast-growing environmental commodities market. This full-time, in-person position is based in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, and calls for an experienced professional with a background in finance, accounting, and FP&A in an investment or trading firm.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $120,000 - $140,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
👉🏾 👉🏾👉🏾Visit this Airtable for all job opps.
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFP: Climate Service Corps
- Issued By: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
- Scope: MassCEC’s Climate Service Corps seeks to strengthen the Commonwealth’s clean energy workforce by 38% by 2030, offering young people—especially those from Environmental Justice neighborhoods—access to living-wage careers. This initiative provides direct funding and technical assistance to organizations that deliver work-based learning, skills training, career guidance, and service opportunities for individuals aged 18–24. Implementation and Planning Grants are available to help local organizations and partnerships design and scale effective career pathway programs.
- Budget: $50,000 for planning, $350,000 for implementation
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/17/25
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Greenlight Innovation Fund
- Issued By: NYCEDC
- Scope: The Greenlight Innovation Fund provides City Capital funding for developing facilities in Green Economy, Life Sciences, and Advanced Technology industries. Eligible projects include property acquisition, facility construction, or equipment purchases by nonprofit entities on privately owned property.
- Budget: Total allocation of up to $50 million, with awards of at least $3 million per project, covering no more than 50% of total program costs.
- Deadline for Proposals: 4/4/25
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Development Manager For 33 Pryor St.
- Issued By: Invest Atlanta
- Scope: Seeking a firm or team of consultants to manage the redevelopment of a multi-level parking deck and commercial spaces at 33 Pryor St., supporting the broader 2 Peachtree Project mixed-use development.
- Budget: Not disclosed
- Deadline for Proposals: 2/24/25
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Meme-ry + Uplift
Additional data archiving, climate wins, and some needed action. #GEAUXBIRDS 🦅
- Data Rescue Project 2025: (For immediate bookmark!) As the foolishness continues in D.C., several groups are stepping up to the plate to continue archiving access to public data currently being removed from agency websites. This curation combines lots of archival work by dedicated organizers and technologists nationwide.
- In-Person Event: 2025 Federal Policy Briefing by Environmental Grantmakers Association
- Date: Feb 23-25, 2025;
- Description: In the face of shifting legislative and federal cycles, we face critical questions about the future—How do we align our efforts to protect sacred lands, ecosystems, and relational infrastructure that nurtures stewardship and belonging next year and in the next generation? 2025 will be a year for collective action and for durable gains. We will get what we organize, mobilize for and collaborate on and lose where we act alone. Now is the time to align across philanthropic focuses and with environmental leaders wherever they are. Gathering is in-person in Washington, D.C.
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Webinar: Fighting for Justice, Multiracial Democracy, and an Equitable Economy in Dark Times by Common Future, PolicyLink, and Brava Leaders
- Date: Feb 12, 2025 01:00 PM
- Description: In 2025 and beyond, how can we craft a shared vision of an equitable economy in a multiracial democracy? What lessons can we learn from past movements? What agendas and plans can we put in place today? How can we strategically take on risk as we fight for justice? Join Common Future, PolicyLink, and Brava Leaders for our first webinar of the year, where we will discuss these questions and more, exploring the challenges ahead and the opportunities that could inform our collective work in 2025.
- Sign Up: Click Here
We choose conviction over chaos and determination over despair.
A whole lot is happening in the news. Mainstream and corporate media outlets have a profit-driven incentive to keep you in a constant state of panic, doom-scrolling into infinity. While the road ahead will be challenging, I take encouragement in the following.
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To be clear, this is not to downplay the seriousness of what is happening and the very real material impact these choices have on folks and our communities. Take this as a reminder of our own agency and to not succumb to the narrative that we’re powerless!!!
❝ Under the new administration in the United States, the leadership of local communities will be more important than ever. Ahmed Gaya, Director, The National Partnership for New Americans’ Climate Justice Collaborative
This article by Atmos Earth details some of the ongoing victories happening in this work and harkens to the opportunities still in front of us. Y’all check it out.
And its still a Happy BHM to Y’all ✊🏽
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Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾
In solidarity,
Trace
