Hey Folks! Quick updates website updates: when you visit each of the funding, job, and contract pages you should be able to see the most recently posted opportunities by default. Search function coming soon!
Table of Contents
- Funding Opportunities 💰
- Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
- Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
- In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, …
- A predominately Black neighborhood in northern Bir …
- Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- ⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
How we look knowing we’re in community with y’all
By the numbers:
- Funding Opps: 30+
- Job Opps: 110+
- Contract Opps: 10
Funding Opportunities 💰
- Accelerator for Black Community Wealth by Start.coop
- Who it's for: The Fall 2025 Accelerator supports Black-led cooperatives in the U.S. and Canada to grow sustainable, community-owned businesses. Participants receive coaching, workshops, and a $5,000 grant over a 12-week program.
- Funding Amount: $5,000
- Deadline: 6/11/2025 ← 🚨🚨🚨
- How to Apply: Click Here
- Climate Action Grants by Earth Rising Foundation
- Who it's for: Funding supports grassroots climate action initiatives across multiple focus areas including Indigenous rights, regenerative agriculture, and youth activism.
- Funding Amount: $20,000
- 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 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
- Director of Public Policy
- Organization: National Association for Latino Community Asset Builders (NALCAB)
- Location: Washington, D.C.; Hybrid
- Description: The Director of Public Policy leads NALCAB’s federal policy strategy, engaging with Congress, federal agencies, and national coalitions. This role oversees policy development, advocacy efforts, and supports member organizations through technical assistance and public engagement.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $113,400 – $144,900
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Associate Director, Technical Assistance
- Organization: Center for Community Progress
- Location: Washington, D.C.;Flint, MI; Chicago,IL; Atlanta,GA; Hybrid
- Description: The Associate Director will lead project teams to deliver expert technical assistance to local governments and land banks addressing vacant, abandoned, and deteriorated properties. This role involves managing engagements, developing policy solutions, and crafting actionable recommendations to support community revitalization with a focus on racial equity.
- Deadline to Apply: 6/20/2025
- Salary: $110,000 – $125,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Measurement & Verification Account Executive
- Organization: Power TakeOff
- Location: Denver, CO preferred; Remote
- Description: Power TakeOff is hiring a Measurement & Verification Account Executive to lead sales of its M&V software and services to ESCOs, utilities, and energy service providers. The role involves client consultation, business development, and collaboration with internal teams to support energy efficiency initiatives.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $100,000 – $125,000 base + uncapped commission
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Director of Visual Storytelling
- Organization: Foodshed Capital
- Location: Near Charlottesville/Richmond, VA preferred; Remote
- Description: Foodshed Capital seeks a Director of Visual Storytelling to lead multimedia content creation that highlights regenerative farmers and the organization's mission. This remote role involves producing video, photography, and visual assets with regular travel to farms and events.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $75,000 - $80,000
- Link to Apply: Click Here
- Associate
- Organization: Allied Climate Partners
- Location: Near Charlottesville/Richmond, VA preferred; Remote
- Description: The Associate will support operations, fundraising, partnerships, and strategic initiatives to help scale ACP’s climate finance platform. This role involves close collaboration with leadership and offers exposure to senior public and private sector stakeholders.
- Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
- Salary: $125,000 - $165,000
- 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
📝 View all opportunities in Contract & RFP Catalog 📝
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track📰
In One of the Nation’s Most Polluted Communities, Trump Terminates Funding for Air Monitoring by Lee Hedgespeth for Inside Climate News
A predominately Black neighborhood in northern Birmingham, AL in the 90th percentile of particulate matter pollution had its $75k air monitoring grant cancelled by the EPA. Their EPA application explicitly stated that this was going to be used to help working class Black folks and the admin’s new “priorities” don’t allow for industrial accountability 😒
Support the Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (GASP)
“This EPA Assistance Agreement is terminated in its entirety effective immediately on the grounds that the award no longer effectuates the program goals or agency priorities. The objectives of the award are no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities.”
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
- 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
- Date: June 11, 2025 1:00 PM ET
- Location: Virtual
- Host: Justice Climate Fund, Climate United, ImpactAlpha, Kresge, NYCEEC
- Description: The pipeline was robust for the networks of green banks and community lenders set to deploy the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. The abrupt shift in federal policy stranded deals representing tens of billions of dollars in community investment that stood to reduce energy costs, improve air quality, create jobs and boost resilience in communities across the US. That makes the moment ripe for opportunistic investors and for a rethink of impact investing more broadly. Join Climate United’s Beth Bafford, Justice Climate Fund’s Amir Kirkwood, NYCEEC’s Curtis Probst, Kresge Foundation's Aaron Seybert and other community climate investors who are shaping a new market for green lending – even as litigation continues. Wednesday, June 11 at 10amPT / 1pmET / 6pm London.
- Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
Long overdue notes of gratitude
To Emily, Bri, Sanjana, Elaine, Lia, Mariama, Lily, Austin, Journee for being some of the first subscribers and champions of this endeavor. Your enthusiasm and encouragement has been invaluable in continuing to shape Common River from a fledgling concept into something more substantive. Thank you, thank you.
Korin and Emilie for the consistency in forwarding and sharing jobs, opportunities to include in the newsletter on our website. Its touching that you take the time to send these my way in the midst of your busy schedules. Thank you.
Jo, Joy, and Anne for supporting this effort while you’re navigating the on the ground fight for environmental justice in our communities. Thank you for the work that you do and I hope that the resources shared here can be at least marginally useful in resourcing your much needed leadership.
Forwarded this email? Bet! 😤
Subscribe to Common River today 🙌🏾
In solidarity,
Trace
