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- Don’t forget to check out the new website at ourco …
- Don’t sleep 😴 on the Common River Job Board to st …
- All of us looking at the news last week as we’re j …
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Uplift
- A message from the Grandfather of Environmental Ju …
All of us looking at the news last week as we’re just trying to improve the lives of our community 🤷🏾♂️
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 30+
- Job Opps: 115+
- Contract Opps: 15+
Explore all the opportunities on our website! 💼
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Amplifiers: Atlanta by Generation180 & Rewiring America
- Who it's for: A paid weekend workshop in Atlanta (April 26-27) training local leaders and content creators to promote clean energy solutions, followed by a three-month engagement program. Georgia-based community leaders and content creators are passionate about clean energy; no prior knowledge is required for content creators.
- Grant Amount: $1,000 stipend (all participants) | Additional $1,000 for content creators who produce a video
- Deadline: 3/21/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- YBCL Youth Futures Fund by People’s Climate Innovation Center
- Who it's for: Supports young Black climate leaders advocating for racial and climate justice through community-driven projects, education, and skill-building. Awards fund new and ongoing initiatives that promote local climate solutions.
- Grant Amount: $2,000 - $10,000
- Deadline: 3/27/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Camelback Fellowship by Camelback Ventures
- Who it's for: A 16-week hybrid fellowship providing early-stage entrepreneurs with funding, coaching, and a supportive community to scale ventures addressing inequities in education and technology. Fellows receive capital, mentorship, and connections to investors and industry leaders.
- Grant Amount: $40,000 in funding (SAFE note for for-profits; unrestricted grants for nonprofits)
- Deadline: 4/7/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Civic Media Fellowship 2025/26 by USC Annenberg Innovation Lab
- Who it's for: An 8-month fellowship for artists, creators, and organizers working at the intersections of media, technology, and culture, emphasizing collaboration, exploration, and knowledge-sharing rather than a project deliverable.
- Grant Amount: $2,000 monthly stipend (8 months)
- Deadline: 3/28/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- 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
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- Chief of Staff
- Organization: Inspiration MobilityLocation: Washington, D.C.; hybridDescription: 15+ years of professional experience; MBA; 3+ years in management consulting; expertise in corporate finance, equity investing, fleet management, sustainability, or a related field; strong communication, project management, and relationship-building skills.Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAPSalary: $175,000 - $260,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Officer
- Organization: Independence Public Media Foundation
- Location: Philadelphia, PA; Hybrid
- Description: The Program Officer leads the foundation’s grantmaking efforts, collaborating on evaluation and capacity building to advance community-centered media and internet access. This role involves strategy development, managing grant cycles, building partnerships, and engaging with the media and philanthropic sectors to support narratives that drive justice movements.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $105,300 - $144,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Administrator III, Building Decarbonization Division
- Organization: Maryland Department of the Environment
- Location: Baltimore, MD
- Description: The Administrator III will support Maryland’s new Building Decarbonization Division within the Climate Change Program, focusing on reducing greenhouse gas emissions from buildings. Responsibilities include research, policy development, stakeholder engagement, technical support, and implementing programs like the Building Energy Performance Standards (BEPS), Zero-Emission Heating Equipment Standard (ZEHES), and Clean Heat Standard (CHS).
- Deadline to Apply: 3/28/2025
- Salary: $69,323 - $90,420
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Senior Manager, Markets & Technology, Wildfire Resilience
- Organization: Environmental Defense Fund (EDF)
- Location: Western U.S. ; monthly travel to SAC & SF; Remote
- Description: The Senior Manager will lead market-based strategies for wildfire resilience in the western U.S., focusing on private investment, technology, and AI applications. Responsibilities include supporting wildfire resilience pilots, engaging with tribal-led initiatives, managing Communities of Practice (COPs), coordinating with EDF’s Office of the Chief Scientist on satellite technology, and fostering partnerships to scale investment and policy influence.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $107,000 - $115,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Director
- Organization: Democracy 2076
- Location: Los Angeles, CA; Remote
- Description: The Program Director will lead the Imagining 2076 initiative, focusing on shaping media narratives around democracy and the future. This role involves engaging creatives, managing research partnerships, developing advocacy strategies, and working with entertainment industry stakeholders to influence storytelling that strengthens democratic values.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $120,000 - $180,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
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RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFI: Regional Implementer for the New England Heat Pump Accelerator
- Issued By: Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP)
- Scope: DEEP is seeking a Regional Implementer to lead and manage the New England Heat Pump Accelerator, a regional initiative to promote the adoption of cold-climate heat pumps across Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island. The selected implementer will oversee the Market, Innovation, and Resource Hubs to support market transformation and workforce development.
- Budget: $450,000,000 ← not a typo 🫨
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/28/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFI: Solar Technology for Georgia BRIGHT Communities Initiative
- Issued By: Capital Good Fund
- Scope: Seeking innovative solar technology solutions to expand access for underserved housing types under the $156M Georgia BRIGHT Solar for All program. Target housing typologies are: 1)Apartments/Multifamily Housing, 2)Mobile/Manufactured Homes, 3)Single Family Rental Properties, 4) Duplexes, Triplexes, and Fourplexes, 5)Structurally Insufficient Homes
- Budget: N/A
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/28/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Technical Assistance (TA) Team Member for Green Bank Rapid Start Team
- Issued By: Green Bank for Rural America
- Scope: Seeking professionals to support the implementation of Technical Assistance Hubs and Services in Financial Services, Distributed Energy, Built Environment, and EV Transportation. The role involves provider outreach, resource library development, community engagement, and direct technical assistance.
- Budget: Not disclosed
- Deadline for Proposals: Rolling, Apply ASAP
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Federal Lobbyist or Lobbying Firm Services
- Issued By: International Economic Development Council (IEDC)
- Scope: IEDC seeks a federal lobbyist or firm to advocate for U.S. economic development policies, secure legislative wins, and strengthen relationships with key policymakers.
- Budget: $75,000/year
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/28/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Regenerative Agriculture Program Coordination Support
- Issued By: Soil & Climate Initiative (SCI)
- Scope: SCI seeks a contractor to assist in onboarding farmers, managing farm data, and supporting regenerative agriculture transition programs. The role includes data collection, farm planning documentation, and platform management to streamline farmer participation and outcomes tracking.
- Budget: $35 -$45/hr
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/25/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Uplift
People: that cut or rollback isn’t that big of a deal
Me:
- Criminal targeting of environmental groups ‘scary,’ advocates say by Floodlight: For folks prioritizing environmental justice and clean air, recent actions by the federal government has a chilling effect. 😬
- Our Communities, Our Fight: Standing Up for the CDFI Fund by the African American Alliance of CDFI CEOs: This coalition of leaders is plainly naming the harms that will come from scale back or complete elimination of the CDFI Fund, which impacts credit unions, small business financing, and affordable housing and real estate development. From the statement:
- "The measurable impact of CDFIs is revolutionary and undeniable:
- Collectively, CDFIs manage assets exceeding $222 billion, fueling economic growth in underserved regions.
- Each year, CDFIs have created or retained more than one million jobs nationwide, reinforcing local economies.
- They have supported millions of small businesses and entrepreneurs, stabilized local economies and promoted sustainable growth.
- Newly certified CDFIs have created over 3,800 new homeowners, prevented 561 foreclosures, and provided crucial financial education and resources to thousands of families.“
- "The measurable impact of CDFIs is revolutionary and undeniable:
- Carbon capture industry tweaks message for the Trump era: Y’all already how I feel about CCS 🥴. However, at CERAWeek, billed as the world’s premier energy conference (read: big oil & gas conference), CCS leaders starting speaking more plainly about their alliance with the fossil fuel industry. Quote from the article:
- “At CERA Week, Vicki Hollub, chief executive of Occidental Petroleum, described carbon dioxide gas as a vital tool to boosting output from oil reservoirs. She said it extracts oil when pumped in much better than water, "which just goes past" the crude without loosening it.This use of carbon dioxide has permitted Occidental to recover 75 percent of the oil in conventional wells, compared with 50 percent before.Hollub urged policy makers not only to maintain the existing 45Q tax credit, but to tweak it so the credit for carbon dioxide used in enhanced oil recovery is at parity. Right now the credit is higher if the carbon dioxide is stored than if it is used in enhanced oil recovery.More lawmakers are on board "because they recognize that we really need the carbon dioxide to create incremental oil for the United States," she said.”
- “At CERA Week, Vicki Hollub, chief executive of Occidental Petroleum, described carbon dioxide gas as a vital tool to boosting output from oil reservoirs. She said it extracts oil when pumped in much better than water, "which just goes past" the crude without loosening it.This use of carbon dioxide has permitted Occidental to recover 75 percent of the oil in conventional wells, compared with 50 percent before.Hollub urged policy makers not only to maintain the existing 45Q tax credit, but to tweak it so the credit for carbon dioxide used in enhanced oil recovery is at parity. Right now the credit is higher if the carbon dioxide is stored than if it is used in enhanced oil recovery.More lawmakers are on board "because they recognize that we really need the carbon dioxide to create incremental oil for the United States," she said.”
A message from the Grandfather of Environmental Justice, Dr. Robert D. Bullard
Highly, highly encourage you to read Dr. Bullard’s open letter in its entirety. Its a quick ~5 min read filled with encouragement and a call to action.
An excerpt:
“Many progressive social movements that have been successful in the U.S. had young people and students pushing hard at the front. This includes the civil rights movement, peace and justice, women’s rights, anti-war movements, and now environmental justice. We are powerful and unstoppable when we work together. The quest for environmental justice is an ongoing “marathon relay.” You run your 26.2 miles, and then the next generation begin their leg of the race. I am driven by, and I am happy to be able to pass the baton to, the up-and-coming generations of environmental-justice advocates who will continue with the same resilience that so many involved in the journey have already shown.
In this next era, my hope is for policy and action to be swift. Climate change does not have 40 more years to wait. Young people, you are valued. I want to see you in rooms involved in the global discussions of change and policy with the opportunity to share the stories of the environmental and climate impacts on our communities. Let us continue to work together and learn from each other so that money can follow need and not power.”
The baton is in our hands folks 🏃🏼♀️
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Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾
In solidarity,
Trace
