Good people! 2025 has been a wild one so far and I hope that each of you are staying hydrated, touching grass, sleeping 8 hours, and continuing to invest in community.
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Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti- …
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
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By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 35+
- Job Opps: 140+
- Contract Opps: 10+
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Disability Inclusion Fund by Borealis Philanthropy
- Who it's for: The Disability Inclusion Fund supports U.S.-based organizations led by people with disabilities working to advance disability inclusion, rights, and justice.
- Funding Amount: $25,000 - $100,000
- Deadline: 6/25/2025 ← ‼️
- How to Apply: Click Here
- READI Legal Support Fund by Association of Black Foundation Executives
- Who it's for: The READI Legal Support Fund provides one-time general operating support grants of up to $75,000 to small nonprofits advancing racial equity and justice. It aims to help organizations facing legal or security threats build resilience and capacity.
- Funding Amount: $75,000
- Deadline: 6/30/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Fellowship by The Global Good Fund
- Who it's for: The Global Good Fund Fellowship is a 12-month hybrid leadership program for social entrepreneurs worldwide. Fellows receive executive coaching, business mentorship, and a $10,000 grant for leadership development.
- Funding Amount: $10,000
- Deadline: 6/30/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Youth Mental Health Fund by Decolonizing Wealth Project
- Who it's for: The Youth Mental Health Fund supports culturally responsive, community-based mental health care for BIPOC and LGBTQ+ youth ages 12-24. Grants will fund programs that increase access, promote cultural healing, and advocate for systemic change.
- Funding Amount: $100,000 - $250,000
- Deadline: 7/10/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Southern Worker's Opportunity Fund by LIFT Fund
- Who it's for: The Southern Workers Opportunity Fund supports campaigns and infrastructure that build worker power and improve economic and social conditions in the U.S. South. The fund prioritizes multiracial, worker-led efforts that center marginalized communities.
- Funding Amount: $75,000 - $500,000
- Deadline: 7/10/2025
- How to Apply: Click Here
💰 View All Funding Opps in the Funding Database 💰
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Executive Director
- Organization: Texas Campaign for the Environment
- Location: Austin, Houston, or Corpus Christi, TX; Hybrid
- Description: Texas Campaign for the Environment seeks a visionary Executive Director to lead its advocacy and educational arms in advancing environmental justice across Texas. The role involves strategic leadership, fundraising, coalition building, and organizational management to drive systemic change and empower frontline communities
- Deadline to Apply: 6/23/25
- Salary: $140,000 – $160,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Executive Director
- Organization: Clean Energy Leadership Institute
- Location: Washington, D.C.; San Franciso, CA; New York, NY; Hybrid
- Description: The Executive Director will lead CELI’s strategic growth, fundraising, and program development to advance its mission in clean energy leadership. This role involves managing a high-performing team, expanding partnerships, and representing CELI in the broader energy ecosystem.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $150,000+
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Organizing Director
- Organization: Climate Justice Alliance
- Location: United States; Remote
- Description: The Organizing Director will lead the strategic development and implementation of Climate Justice Alliance’s organizing strategy, managing a team of organizers and aligning work with the organization's mission. This role includes supervising staff, overseeing budgets, and representing CJA in external partnerships and coalitions.
- Deadline to Apply: 7/16/2025
- Salary: $113,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Senior Program Associate
- Organization: Kindred Futures
- Location: Atlanta, GA; Hybrid
- Description: The Senior Program Associate manages the full lifecycle of programs, translating strategic goals into actionable plans and ensuring measurable outcomes. This role involves project management, budget oversight, grant compliance, and community engagement to support Black wealth-building initiatives in the South.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $75,000 - $85,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Communications Director
- Organization: Healthy Gulf
- Location: New Orleans or Gulf Coast States; Remote
- Description: The Communications Director will lead Healthy Gulf’s communications strategy to amplify frontline community voices, hold corporations accountable, and drive policy change. This role includes media engagement, digital campaigns, and coalition partnerships to support environmental justice across the Gulf Coast.
- Deadline to Apply: 8/1/2025
- Salary: $70,000 - $75,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
💼. See all the Job Opps on the Job Board 💼
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- RFP: Assessment of Narrative Change Infrastructure in Louisiana
- Issued By: Foundation for Louisiana
- Scope: Seeking a consultant to assess narrative change efforts in Louisiana focused on criminal legal reform and community safety.
- Budget: $25,000
- Deadline for Proposals: 6/20/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- Call for Speakers: 2025 SEEA Southeast Energy Summit
- Issued By: Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance (SEEA)
- Scope: Seeking speaker proposals for the 2025 Energy Summit focused on regional energy efficiency, resilience, and technology innovation.
- Budget: N/A
- Deadline for Proposals: 7/1/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
- RFI:Exploring Partnership Opportunities for Residential Solar Program
- Issued By: Louisiana Clean Energy Fund (LCEF)
- Scope: LCEF seeks input from solar providers and service vendors to design a residential solar leasing program for low-income households across Louisiana aka Solar for Y'all.
- Budget: N/A
- Deadline for Proposals: 7/3/2025
- Details & Submission Link: Click Here
📝 View all opportunities in Contract & RFP Catalog 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
Fossil Fuel Billionaires Are Bankrolling the Anti-Trans Movement by Yessenia Funes for Atmos
In what should be unsurprising news, the fossil fuel industry stay on some 🐂💩. Some excellent journalism by Yessenia Funes finds that many, many far right legislation and movements are backed by fossil fuel billionaires. This includes a slew of anti-trans and other legislation being introduced around the country. The reporting details how Shell has donated to the Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative advocacy org that has pushed an anti-LGBT agenda, between 2013 and 2022.
“Vivian Taylor, a climate policy expert who co-authored the analysis, said the fossil fuel industry has a real interest in funding panic over transgender people: It distracts the public from “the very real and ongoing risks that climate change creates.”
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- Date: June 24, 2025 1:30 PM ET
- Location: Virtual
- Host: Roosevelt Institute
- Description: The so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) led by Elon Musk and Donald Trump caused upheaval and chaos throughout Washington. Tasked with—according to its leaders—maximizing productivity and efficiency, DOGE’s approach may seem unprecedented, but stripping down government functioning is anything but a new idea. Rather, DOGE is a culmination of a decades-long attack on public sector institutions that, under the guise of fiscal responsibility, seeks to create a government that is more dependent on the private sector, less dedicated to the well-being of its citizens, and ultimately, less democratic. Examples from the past century show how governments that adopt austerity policies pull back on essential services, erode workers’ rights and labor conditions, and serve corporations and the ultra-rich.We invite you to join the Roosevelt Institute on June 24 for a critical conversation on the roots and repercussions of this dangerous political-economic project. Experts of history, economics, and democratic institutions will expose the true motivations behind austerity politics, explain how these policies harm everyday Americans, and offer bold alternatives for a government that truly uses all its resources to serve the people.
- Sign Up: Click Here
- Date: June 25, 2025 9:00 PM ET
- Location: Virtual
- Host: Working Class Climate Alliance (WCCA)
- Description: Mainstream climate politics suffers from the under-representation of working class, Indigenous and Global South voices, and remains disproportionately influenced by middle and upper middle class individuals from the Global North - often with advanced professional credentials and/or formal work experience. But why is it that certain forms of environmental knowledge are held in higher regard than others? And how can this be reconciled so that all forms of knowledge are valued equally? In other words, how can decision-making processes be democratised? Join us for a workshop that will explore these issues in greater depth. Hosted by the Working Class Climate Alliance, this interactive session will include a mixture of foundational knowledge and practical skills training. This was originally delivered at Oxfam Ireland's Ground Up Climate Justice Forum in Cork.
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
We are fundamentally connected. If they come for you, they can come for me. If I want to be free, you must also be free.
It is tempting and we are often (mis)educated in such a way that we view issues in silos. Over here is climate, over there environmental justice, there is affordable housing. These are false distinctions as these issues are made worse by ongoing systemic issues. This is why it is critical to be in solidarity with other movements such as immigrant rights or queer liberation. This is what the Climate Justice Alliance frames as “Build the Bigger We”.
Closing today with a powerful frame from the earlier news article:
“It’s a story, for me, about building bridges with other vulnerable and attacked communities. Queers against fossil fuels, we lose—but maybe everyone against fossil fuels? Maybe then, we win.”
-Vanessa Raditz, Ph.D. student, University of Georgia
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In solidarity,
Trace
