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Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
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By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 30+
- Job Opps: 90+
- Contract Opps: 15+
💼 See all the jobs on the Common River Job Board. 💼
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Cecil Corbin-Mark Fellowship for Environmental Justice Leadership by WE ACT for Environmental Justice
- Who it's for: A year-long, paid fellowship based in Washington, DC for early-career leaders to gain experience in environmental justice policy, advocacy, and community-based organizing, honoring the legacy of EJ leader Cecil Corbin-Mark.
- Funding Amount: $70,000 in funding for the fellowship
- Deadline: 4/18/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- 2025 Accelerator by Cleantech Open
- Who it's for: The world’s largest cleantech accelerator, providing 100-150 startups annually with mentorship, training, investor access, corporate matching, and showcasing opportunities at regional and national levels.
- Funding Amount: Up to $150,000 in cash/investment + $50,000 in in-kind services
- Deadline: 4/12/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Ingredients For Success Entrepreneurs Initiative by Famous Amos 🍪👀
- Who it's for: An annual award program supporting early-stage Black business owners through capital awards, mentorship, networking, and resources to promote long-term success.
- Funding Amount: $150,000 total (awarded to 3 winners)
- Deadline: 4/23/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- 2025 Request for Applications by the Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF)
- Who it's for: $10M in funding available to support Native agriculture through grants that promote economic self-sufficiency, climate resilience, and rural infrastructure development.
- Funding Amount: Up to $250,000 for nonprofits and tribal governments; $150,000 for educational orgs; up to $10M total pool for CDFIs
- Deadline: 5/1/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Global Climate Challenge by MIT Solve
- Who it's for: Seeks tech-driven solutions to mitigate climate change by promoting sustainable food systems, zero-carbon cities, distributed renewable energy, and marine conservation efforts.
- Funding Amount: $10,000
- Deadline: 4/17/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
💰 Find $$$ on the Common River Funding Database 💰
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Impact Associate
- Organization: Trimtab
- Location: Atlanta, GA; Hybrid
- Description: Trimtab seeks an Impact Associate to support operations, research, and communications for its mission-driven investment platform. The role involves managing internal systems, supporting impact and investment research, coordinating investor relations, and contributing to external communications. The Associate will work closely with a small team to scale Trimtab’s impact-first initiatives.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $80,000–$120,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Senior Program Officer, Survey Research
- Organization: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF)
- Location: Princeton, NJ; Hybrid
- Description: RWJF seeks a Senior Program Officer to lead and support survey research and evaluation strategies within the Research-Evaluation-Learning unit. This role will design and manage complex surveys, assess evaluation strategies, disseminate findings, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to advance health equity through evidence-building.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $158,300
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Officer, Philadelphia Research and Policy Initiative
- Organization: The Pew Charitable Trusts
- Location: Philadelphia, PA; Hybrid
- Description: Leads and conducts rigorous research on key issues affecting Philadelphia, such as economic development, fiscal health, and public policy. The officer develops policy-relevant reports, engages with stakeholders, and supports Pew’s efforts to inform decision-makers and the public. Work includes data analysis, project leadership, writing, and quality control.
- Deadline to Apply: 4/18/2025
- Salary: $110,800–$123,800
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Chief of Staff to the CEO
- Organization: Karp Strategies
- Location: New York, NY; Hybrid
- Description: The Chief of Staff to the CEO will support high-level executive operations, manage strategic initiatives, and enhance cross-functional coordination to ensure organizational alignment and impact. This role requires balancing strategic thinking with executive support, facilitating internal communications, and managing administrative functions with professionalism, discretion, and empathy, especially in supporting the CEO’s disability-related needs.
- Deadline to Apply: 4/30/2025
- Salary: $110,000 – $130,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Chief of Staff
- Organization: Cambio
- Location: New York, NY; San Francisco, CA; or Toronto, ON; Hybrid
- Description: Cambio is seeking a Chief of Staff to act as a strategic partner to the executive team, leading cross-functional projects across departments, including product, engineering, operations, and go-to-market. This role will drive strategic initiatives, optimize internal operations, and build key external partnerships to help accelerate the company’s mission to decarbonize real estate.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $130,000 – $160,000 + equity
- Link to Apply: Click Here
💼. See all the jobs on the Common River Job Board 💼
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFP: Strategic Public Relations Partnership
- Issued By: Black Education for New Orleans (BE NOLA)
- Scope: BE NOLA seeks a strategic PR partner to elevate its visibility, amplify Black education narratives, drive event participation, and support fundraising with a 6-month pilot engagement.
- Budget: Not disclosed
- Deadline for Proposals: 4/11/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- Consulting Services: Financial Modeling for Utility-Scale Solar Projects
- Issued By: Planet Reimagined
- Scope: Planet Reimagined seeks a finance consultant to model 5–8 solar projects in the Southwest U.S., integrating tax incentives, market shifts, and capital strategies to assess economic viability.
- Budget: $60/hour
- Deadline for Proposals: 4/28/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Freshwater Storytelling Grant
- Issued By: National Geographic Society
- Scope: National Geographic invites storytellers worldwide to create compelling content raising awareness about global freshwater scarcity and sustainable solutions.
- Budget: $20,000 – $100,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 4/22/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
📝 View the Common River Contract & RFP Catalogue 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
What’s good with these tariffs?!?
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
- Entrepreneurial Support Hub led by 4.0 Schools, Camelback Ventures, Echoing Green, New Schools, and Moonshot: This online platform is a resource hub dedicated to social entrepreneurs and those looking to build sustainable organizations. The ESH contains a wealth of resources such as 4.0’s Logic Model Builder, Camelback’s Venture Creation Canvas, and a funding & opportunity tracker! ← the more, the merrier!
- Chevron ordered to pay $745 million for damaging Louisiana wetlands over decades by EHN Curators for The Daily Climate: Another instance of an oil & gas company acting up, its almost as if - 🤔. Chevron, through its acquisition of Texaco, has been ordered by a Louisiana Court to pay damages for destroying wetlands and leaving behind infrastructure after they finished operations. Let’s keep it real- if a Louisiana court is ruling against an oil & gas company, then you know you really 🤬-up! Fossil fuel companies often leave behind infrastructure that continues to pollute our air and atmosphere. For more, read about orphaned oil wells. The damages are broken down as follows: ”$575 million for land loss, $161 million for pollution, and $8.6 million for leftover infrastructure.” These types of antics by industry contribute significantly to Louisiana’s rapidly eroding coastline.
- Under Trump, the St. John site is no longer considered for historic landmark designation by Safura Syed for Verite News: An 11-mile stretch of land home to a landmark freetown of Black descendants in rural St. John the Baptist Parish located in Cancer Alley had its National Historic Landmark application removed by the National Park Service. The heart of this community is Wallace, LA, one of the few communities not subjected to the unmitigated density of fossil fuel infrastructure in the rest of the region and is home to the Whitney Plantation, the only former plantation dedicated to telling the story of the enslaved from their perspective. This action was taken by the NPS upon request from the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality as it has its eyes on making this land prime for industrial development, doubling down on the moniker of Cancer Alley. Co-founders and co-directors of the Descendants Project, Dr. Joy and Jo Banner continue to fight the good fight and are underterred by the foolishness at the local, state, and federal gov. Check out and support their work.
““This is an attempt to diminish the contributions and significance of Black history, culture and well-being,” the Banner sisters said in a press release sent to Verite. “Most importantly, we are fighting for the health of our current and future residents and for the livability of our community.””
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- Date: Apr 10, 2025 2:30 PM ET
- Location: Zoom
- Host: PolicyLink
- Description: This webinar is the second of a three-part series to explore the historic promise of equal protection; to understand what it means for American democracy to truly deliver fundamental fairness; and to demand the change we need for America to be a nation that delivers for all. In this session, we will focus on the historic efforts that produced and catalyzed the Civil Rights Movement, the legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, the shoulders we stand on, and how we move forward in transformative solidarity to ensure that our governing institutions truly serve all.
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Date: Apr 28 - May 2, 2025
- Location: Washington, D.C.
- Host: DC Climate Week
- Description: DC Climate Week (DCCW) will establish Washington, DC, as the nation’s center of climate innovation by providing opportunities to engage with policymakers, fund climate solutions, and showcase cutting-edge technologies.Through curated workshops, panels, exhibitions, and networking events, we will transform our nation's capital into a global model for climate action.
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
“We are the ones that we have been waiting for.”
June Jordan, Poem for South African Women
While polluters are emboldened in this moment, we know that its always been on us to protect our people, restore our land, and fight for our future.
An organization that is giving me energy right now is JustAir. Darren Riley, its founder, has created a community-rooted air quality monitoring platform to hold polluters accountable, with monitoring happening throughout metro Detroit.
Here are some insights from a workshop Darren presented at. Bottoms up solutions are what we need right now!
