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Table of Contents
- 👉🏾 Explore the Airtable
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Uplift
- We see you, and we appreciate your spirit, effort, …
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 20+
- Job Opps: 75+
- Contract Opps: 10+
👉🏾 Explore the Airtable of full opportunities here.
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Local Data for Equitable Communities Grant by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
- Who it's for: Supports nonprofits in collecting and using data to address inequities in physical, economic, and social conditions. Grants aim to inform public policy, build local data capacity, and strengthen equitable data practices.
- Grant Amount: $50,000
- Deadline: 3/18/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Climate Story Fund by Doc Society
- Who it's for: Supports independent media projects that highlight climate justice and drive audience engagement toward climate action. Funds nonfiction productions in late stages and impact pilots for completed nonfiction and fiction projects.
- Grant Amount: $125,000
- Deadline: 3/10/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- CSCI Grants by Climate Services Collaborative Initiative (CSCI)
- Who it's for: The CSCI grants strengthen partnerships between climate adaptation professionals, community-based organizations (CBOs), and government entities. Through this 12-month funding, teams can collaboratively conduct vulnerability analyses, create or enhance climate resilience plans, engage communities, prioritize projects, and implement on-the-ground efforts. Grant recipients also benefit from training, cohort support, technical assistance, and the potential to integrate nature-based solutions that center equity and justice.
- Grant Amount: $100,000
- Deadline: 3/21/2025
- 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
👉🏾 Visit this Airtable for all funding opps.
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Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Chief Growth and Data Officer
- Organization: Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
- Location: Washington D.C., Remote
- Description: ACE is seeking a Chief Growth and Data Officer to lead digital marketing, data strategies, and audience engagement to accelerate decarbonization efforts. This role oversees paid media campaigns, influencer marketing, and data systems to expand ACE’s impact, with a focus on youth engagement, clean energy advocacy, and combating climate disinformation. The ideal candidate will bring expertise in digital advertising, analytics, and strategic growth to elevate ACE’s brand and mobilization efforts.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $150,000 - $190,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Director, Clean Communities Investment Accelerator
- Organization: Justice Climate Fund (JCF)
- Location: National, Remote
- Description: The Vice President of Investment will design and execute Rewiring America’s revenue plan, expand investor pipelines, and lead a growing fundraising team. This role will oversee donor cultivation, strategic partnerships, and innovative funding strategies to support electrification initiatives. The VP will work closely with leadership to secure seven- to eight-figure investments, ensuring long-term financial sustainability and transformational impact.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $130,000 - $160,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Vice President, Investment (Nonprofit-focused)
- Organization: Rewiring America
- Location: National, Remote
- Description: The Vice President of Investment will design and execute Rewiring America’s revenue plan, expand investor pipelines, and lead a growing fundraising team. This role will oversee donor cultivation, strategic partnerships, and innovative funding strategies to support electrification initiatives. The VP will work closely with leadership to secure seven- to eight-figure investments, ensuring long-term financial sustainability and transformational impact.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $250,000 - $300,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Manager, Climate Solutions
- Organization: Skyline Foundation
- Location: Palo Alto, CA
- Description: Skyline Foundation is seeking a Program Manager, Climate Solutions to support its climate-focused grantmaking efforts. This role will manage grantmaking processes, cultivate partnerships, and contribute to strategy development aligned with trust-based philanthropy and climate justice. The Program Manager will work closely with grantees, analyze program outcomes, and identify opportunities to drive systemic climate solutions.
- Deadline to Apply: 2/28/2025
- Salary: $150,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
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RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFP: Making the Financial Case for Adaptation Projects in Cities
- Issued By: C40 Cities
- Scope: C40 Cities seeks a consultant or team to identify and analyze how successful urban climate adaptation projects secure funding and financing. The selected provider will conduct desktop research, interviews, and case studies to map financial models, illustrate project bankability, and document lessons learned from multiple cities worldwide. Deliverables will inform C40’s support programs for city officials and finance providers, strengthening the global pipeline of climate-resilient urban infrastructure projects.
- Budget: $60,000 - $100,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 2/21/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- 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: Development of Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy
- Issued By: Santo Domingo Pueblo (Kewa)
- Scope: Seeking a firm to develop a Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS) for Santo Domingo Pueblo, including the historic Trading Post, in compliance with EDA guidelines.
- Budget: Not disclosed
- Deadline for Proposals: 2/21/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Uplift
- Climate Funding Tracker by Grist: The good folks over at Grist have created an interactive map that allows you to search down to the zip code to see what projects in your neighborhood have been funded through climate laws from the last few years. Things have been and are being built! Here’s a screenshot from my taking a look at New Orleans and the River Parishes.
- The People Want Renewables! In an article by the Hill describes following,“Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Professor Christopher Knittel agreed that the low cost of solar will be “driving a lot of adoption, because it’s just a cheap source of electricity.”
We see you, and we appreciate your spirit, effort, and work.
Now, let’s get back to it! 🫱🏾🫲🏼😤
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