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Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
How we look landing in y’all inbox with these resources ready to support environmental justice, working class people, and climate solutions!
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 30+
- Job Opps: 65+
- Contract Opps: 15+
💼 See all the jobs on the Common River Job Board. 💼
Funding Opportunities 💰
- 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
- Litigation Grants by Impact Fund
- Who it's for: Provides litigation expense grants for class actions or multi-plaintiff cases addressing systemic oppression; supports cases aimed at law reform and community-led solutions.
- Grant Amount: $10,000 to $50,000 per grant
- Deadline: 4/1/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Johnson Justice Fellowship by Johnson Family Foundation
- Who it's for: A two-year, full-time fellowship in New York City supporting rising leaders in grassroots organizing, policy advocacy, and electoral work to drive systemic change. Fellows work with host organizations, receive mentorship, and gain hands-on experience.
- Grant Amount: $70,000 - $80,000
- Deadline: 4/7/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Catalyst Award by Rachel’s Network
- Who it's for: Recognizes and supports mid-career women of color leading environmental change through advocacy, education, research, journalism, health, and entrepreneurship. Awardees receive funding, leadership services, networking, and professional development opportunities.
- Grant Amount: $15,000 personal grant + $10,000 organizational grant (if applicable)
- Deadline: 3/30/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- 2025 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/ 3 yrs + $25,000 in technical assistance
- Deadline: 4/25/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
💰 Find $$$ on the Common River Funding Database 💰
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Senior Field Strategist, Steel
- Organization: Industrious Labs
- Location: Remote (Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, or Western Pennsylvania preferred)
- Description: Leads coalition building and grassroots strategy in the Midwest to decarbonize the steel industry through community engagement, power mapping, and campaign development. Manages the Sustainable Steel Community Cohort and Alliance for Clean Steel, focusing on justice-centered climate solutions.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $117,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Senior Outreach Manager, TRIBAL
- Organization: GRID Alternatives
- Location: Albuquerque, NM; Hybrid
- Description: Leads and manages tribal outreach and engagement programs across multiple initiatives, building partnerships with Tribal Nations and stakeholders to expand access to renewable energy. Oversees staff, strategy development, communications, and deliverables under the Solar for All grant.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $80,000 - $90,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Senior Director, Business Development
- Organization: Opportunity@Work
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: Leads corporate partnership expansion and revenue growth by securing new coalition members and sponsors aligned with Opportunity@Work’s mission. Manages a high-performing team, drives consultative sales processes, and fosters strategic relationships to help STARs access higher-wage jobs.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $152,000 - $163,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Director of Community Management
- Organization: PadSplit
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: Leads strategy and execution of a thriving host and member community to drive affordable housing success. Responsibilities include creating scalable educational resources, launching a Host Ambassador Program, managing digital community spaces, improving self-service tools, and collaborating cross-functionally to incorporate community feedback into product and operations.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $120,000–$140,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Asset Manager
- Organization: San Francisco Community Land Trust
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Description: Manages financial sustainability of SFCLT’s 16-property portfolio through budgeting, cash flow analysis, and asset performance reporting. Supports acquisitions, compliance, and cross-team collaboration to ensure long-term affordability and community stability.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $115,000 - $130,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
💼. See all the jobs on the Common River Job Board 💼
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- 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
- 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 ← still not a typo 🫨
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/28/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Marketing and Communications Support
- Issued By: Foundation for Louisiana (FFL)
- Scope: FFL seeks a consultant or firm for a 3–6 month engagement to enhance visibility through social media, newsletters, event promotion, and website content aligned with their racial and climate justice mission.
- Budget: $30,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 3/26/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
📝 View the Common River Contract & RFP Catalogue 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
Everybody say it with me! “Trusting in fossil fuel companies to do the right thing is…
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
- What a $660 Million Verdict Means for Greenpeace and the Environmental Movement by Nicholas Kusnetz via Inside Climate News: Remember Standing Rock and the fierce activism against the Dakota Access Pipeline? A court in North Dakota ruled that Greenpeace US has to pay $660M in damages to Energy Transfer, the company building the DAPL for its role in supporting organizers. This ruling is wild for many reasons, but 1) this is part of a legal tactic known as strategic litigation against public participation, aka SLAPPs, which have the effect of bleeding advocacy orgs dry from litigation. many states have laws explicitly against this and 2) Energy Transfer has a $64.7B market cap 😠. They not hurting for money!
- Environmental Justice in Louisiana: Communities Push Back as Industry Expands by Scott Ploof via Big Easy Magazine: As the EPA continues to rollback environmental regs, it is ALSO dropping lawsuits that will hold industrial polluters accountable. It is true now and has been for some time, that we’re going to need to be the ones to hold industrial accountable.
“The EPA had previously sued Denka for releasing chloroprene, a likely carcinogen, at levels hundreds of times above what the agency deems safe. The facility sits near St. John the Baptist Parish, where cancer risks are among the highest in the nation, according to EPA data.” - Trump administration moves to shutter mine safety offices in coal country, by Katie Myers via Grist: Already facing the challenges of economic decline paired with the burden of legacy industrial pollution, coal miners in Appalachia are at increased risk due to the current administration's rollback of regulations.
““[Libby Lindsay] understood the price that had been paid for the regulations it enforced. “Every law was written in blood,” she said. “It’s there because somebody was injured or killed.””
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
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- Date: Apr 11, 2025 01:00 - 2:30 PM
- Location: Chicago, Illinois
- Host: Latinxs in Sustainability
- Description: Celebrate Earth Month with Latinxs in Sustainability (LiS) Chicago and LRS as we take a behind-the-scenes tour of one of Chicago’s leading Material Recovery Facilities (MRFs)! 🌎♻️ Discover how recycling happens in our city through a guided tour of LRS’ cutting-edge Exchange MRF, where materials are sorted, processed, and prepared for reuse. This is a unique opportunity to gain insider knowledge on waste management, sustainability, and circular economy efforts in Chicago.
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
We know who we are, we know our worth, and we know the future that we’re fighting for. All around the country (and the planet), folks are organizing, creating art, shifting the narrative, and building the community that we need for sustainable, prosperous futures.
Friends, find your people. Be each other’s people.
Keep working - choreography and merriment awaits 😏
Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾
In solidarity,
Trace
