Morning Folks! Hoping that this email is bringing you the right mix of resource sharing, humor, and inspiration today. A bit heavy on the memes today but a gem of a story to close us out.
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Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- Community solar is the honey badger of clean energ …
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
POV: its 2011 and you don’t give a you-know-what
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 50+
- Job Opps: 85+
- Contract Opps: 20+
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Detroit Startup Fund
- Who it's for: The Detroit Startup Fund provides capital, visibility, and partnerships for Detroit-based tech startups and founders to launch and grow. The program offers seed grants and scale grants to support entrepreneurial economic growth in Detroit.
- Funding Amount: $15,000 - $50,000
- Deadline: 8/25/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Global Innovation Challenge by Social Shifters
- Who it's for: The Global Innovation Challenge supports young founders tackling social and environmental issues with funding, mentorship, and global exposure. Participants can access learning resources, pitch coaching, and a network of global opportunities.
- Funding Amount: $3,000 - $15,000
- Deadline: 8/29/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Accelerator Program by Fast Forward
- Who it's for: Fast Forward’s Accelerator supports early-stage tech nonprofits with funding, mentorship, and training. The program helps bridge the gap between the tech and nonprofit sectors through a tailored curriculum and peer community.
- Funding Amount: $25,000
- Deadline: 9/8/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Camelback Fellowship by Camelback Ventures ← HIGHLY RECOMMEND 💪🏾
- Who it's for: The Camelback Fellowship is a rigorous accelerator program that empowers early-stage entrepreneurs to create impactful solutions addressing systemic inequities in Education and Conscious Technology.
- Funding Amount: $40,000 in funding along with coaching, connections, community, and curriculum support
- Deadline: 9/10/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Cummings $30M Grant Program
- Who it's for: Multi-year grants (3 or 10 years) supporting local nonprofits in Greater Boston area. Awards $30 million annually to 150 organizations with installments ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per year.
- Funding Amount: $30,000 - $300,000
- Deadline: 9/17/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
💰 View All Funding Opps in the Funding Database 💰
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Portfolio Manager, Mental Health; Crisis Response & Climate Resilience
- Organization: The Tepper Foundation
- Location: New York, NY; Hybrid
- Description: Seeking an experienced grantmaker to lead Mental Health and Crisis Response & Climate Resilience portfolios. Role involves managing full grant lifecycle, developing funding strategies, and building relationships with communities and nonprofit organizations.
- Deadline to Apply: 8/19/2025 (Rolling from there) 👈🏽🚨🚨🚨
- Salary: $160,000-$180,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Climate Organizing Director
- Organization: Jobs with Justice San Francisco
- Location: San Francisco, CA; Hybrid
- Description: Lead California Labor for Climate Jobs coalition to build worker and coalition power for strategic victories in workers rights and good jobs in the climate transition. Develop and implement organizing plans, coordinate coalition activities, and advance worker-led climate policy at the intersection of economic, racial and climate justice.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $92,000 - $101,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Program Associate, Road Transportation
- Organization: ClimateWorks Foundation
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: Support Drive Electric's Emerging Economies strategy to accelerate electric vehicle transition in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia through grants management, research, and partner coordination. Lead tracking of grants and support knowledge sharing across global network through communications and events.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $75,000 - $85,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Director of Impact Intelligence
- Organization: GroundBreak
- Location: Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN; Hybrid
- Description: GroundBreak seeks a strategic data leader to transform how we understand and communicate the impact of transformative financial systems change. This role will build comprehensive measurement, evaluation, and learning infrastructure to demonstrate causation and correlation in complex systems change while deepening understanding of effective wealth building strategies.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $130,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Renewables Policy Analyst, Policy and Public Relations
- Organization: Action for the Climate Emergency (ACE)
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: Seeking a seasoned renewable energy policy expert to track and analyze local and state-level policies impacting utility-scale renewable deployment, particularly in rural communities. Role involves strategic analysis of regulatory threats and opportunities, developing advocacy campaign recommendations, and collaborating with project origination teams on policy impacts.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $120,000 - $135,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
💼 See all the Job Opps on the Job Board 💼
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFP: Resource Development Strategy Consultant
- Issued By: RiseBoro Community Partnership
- Scope: RiseBoro Community Partnership seeks a consultant to develop a 3-year sustainable resource development strategy for their Worker Cooperative Development team and Central Brooklyn Food Democracy Project.
- Budget: $35,000 - $45,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 8/29/2025 👈🏽 🚨
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Underwriting Support for Commercial Clean Energy Lending Programs
- Issued By: Philadelphia Green Capital Corp (PGCC)
- Scope: PGCC seeks qualified firms or individuals to provide comprehensive underwriting services for its commercial clean energy loan program. The selected underwriter will develop loan program guidelines and assess the financial and technical viability of loan applications for commercial-scale solar projects targeting non-profits, schools, and municipal institutions.
- Budget: Not disclosed
- Deadline for Proposals: 9/2/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFP: Human Resources Consultant for Worker Self-Directed Organization
- Issued By: Beloved Community Incubator
- Scope: Beloved Community Incubator seeks a human resources consultant to develop their Worker Manual, key policies, and evaluation program for their worker self-directed nonprofit organization. The consultant will also support onboarding/offboarding processes, grievance resolution, risk management, and ongoing HR support for cooperative incubation work.
- Budget: $10,000 - $25,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 9/7/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
📝 View all opportunities in Contract & RFP Catalog 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
Community solar is the honey badger of clean energy by Paul Gerke for FactorThis
Its clear that the current adminstration is doing just about everything in their power to slow down solar and wind projects. Despite these challenges (or headwinds if you prefer the finance-speak), community solar projects to generate more 14 GWs ( a whole lot of ☀️) by 2029! And theres legislation being passed in both progressive and conservative states to support these projects.
“It’s safe to say that all community solar companies operating in the U.S. would like to see more federal support. They’d also prefer the tariff seesaw stabilize soon and would appreciate a few more state-level legislators who recognize the value in distributed energy.
But if none of that comes to pass? Honey badger don’t care.”
”Forever Chemical” is added to The Cambridge Dictionary
In what can only be described as a “sign of the times” the Cambridge Dictionary (the fancy folks tasked with maintaining the King’s English) have added the word “forever chemical” to the dictionary. We coming for you PFAS. 🫢
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- Date: 8/21/25
- Location: FB Live
- Host: The Descendants Project
- Description: “The Descendants Project, will host a virtual panel at 6:30 p.m./ CT on August 21st to mark the one-year anniversary since Greenfield Louisiana LLC halted plans to develop one of the world’s largest grain terminals in St. John the Baptist Parish.This virtual gathering will reflect on the powerful community advocacy that led to the termination of the project, the importance of preserving the community’s heritage and historic sites and the continued fight to protect Wallace from the harms of heavy industry. Dr. Joy Banner and Jo Banner will share updates on the legal, cultural, and grassroots efforts that have taken place over the last year. The panel will feature discussion with allies that were central to the victory including: Kimberly Terrell, Environmental Defense Fund, Pam Spees, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), William Most, Most & Associates and Justin Kray”
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Date: 8/25 - 8/26/2025
- Location: New Orleans, LA; Gulfport, MS
- Host: Taproot Earth’s Katrina 20 Week of Action
- Description: “The 2025 Monarch Forum is a two-day convening hosting panels, conversations, and community culture sessions to explore various elements of climate migration. Topics include the science and ecological impacts of climate change, the impacts of displacement on culture and tradition, the rights and challenges faced by communities that have gone through disaster- including the impacts of displacement, the realities of relocation and the stories of hope rooted in migration. Participants will help to advance shared principles for climate migration and human rights inside of the concepts of place, home and repair.”
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
Yeah, yeah, honey badger memes are fun and all but we have to always platform and share the folks who are not waiting to create more just, sustainable futures but moving diligently towards this despite the opposition.
An Environmental Justice Mayor
The 19th has an excellent feature on Carletta Davis, a native of Prichard, AL, a city in Mobile County of ~18k. Davis has felt the whiplash of the last year more than most, where she went from attending the Environmental Justice Summit under the Biden administration to being on the frontlines of seeing the real-time impacts of the dismantling of federal protections that are especially needed when local governments are captured by industry or local leaders devalue the lives of those they deem as “other”. Prichard residents are particularly challenged by their water and sewage infrastructure with residents facing high water bills and water contamination with carcinogens. Furthermore, organizations also lost significant amount of federal funding from the current administration actions.
Undeterred, Carletta Davis is mounting a campaign for Mayor of her hometown with an explicit focus on elevating environmental justice issues and boldly fighting for her community. She's going up against 8 other candidates with the election taking place on August 26. We know that we always got us.
Major salute to soon-to-be 🤞🏽 Mayor Davis. 🫡
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