Resource Radar🌝😈🐊 | 🎭Mardi Gras Edition 🎭 | Week of Mar 3

$100k from Mellon Foundation, Jobs at Kresge, Jupiter, & Growald, and Climate Career Transition Fellowships

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Common River
March 04, 2025

Laissez bon temps rouler! (read: let the good times roll!)

Just about everywhere in the US on this March 4 is experiencing a regular-degular Tuesday. For those in South Louisiana and particularly, in New Orleans, its the one, the only, the often imitated, yet never duplicated Fat Tuesday, aka Mardi Gras 🎭

Don’t trip, we still got you on the funding, job, and contract opps! 😏

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Table of Contents

By the numbers:

  • Funding Opps: 25+

  • Job Opps: 100+

  • Contract Opps: 15+

Funding Opportunities 💰

  1. Community-Based Archives Grant by Mellon Foundation

    • Who it's for: This funding opp supports community-based archives that preserve and share the histories of under-documented communities through operational funding, collections care, and programming.

    • Grant Amount: $25,000 - $100,000 (two year grants)

    • Deadline: 3/12/2025

    • How to Apply: Click Here

  2. Young Black Climate Leaders (YBCL) Youth Futures Fund by People’s Climate Innovation Center

    • Who it's for: Supports young Black climate leaders advocating for racial and climate justice through community-driven projects, education, and skill-building. Awards fund new and ongoing initiatives that promote local climate solutions.

    • Grant Amount: $2,000 - $10,000

    • Deadline: 3/27/2025

    • How to Apply: Click Here

  3. Creative Catalyst Fellowship by the AAPI Civic Engagement Fund

    • Who it's for: Supports independent artists in creating impactful work on AAPI issues through music, video, visual arts, poetry, and performing arts, focusing on the themes of In it Together, Belonging, and Voting Together.

    • Grant Amount: $30,000

    • Deadline: 3/6/2025

    • How to Apply: Click Here

  4. Building Bridges – 2025 Grant Cycle by Mosaic

    • Who it's for: Funding collaborative projects, coalitions, and networks that strengthen movement infrastructure, build narrative power, break down silos, and defend democracy in climate and environmental justice movements.

    • Grant Amount: $50,000 - $300,000

    • Deadline: 3/5/2025

    • How to Apply: Click Here

  5. Climate Story Fund by Doc Society

    • Who it's for: Supports independent media projects that highlight climate justice and drive audience engagement toward climate action. Funds nonfiction productions in late stages and impact pilots for completed nonfiction and fiction projects.

    • Grant Amount: $125,000

    • Deadline: 3/10/2025

    • How to Apply: Click Here

👉🏾 Visit this Airtable for all funding opps.

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Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽‍💼👩🏽‍💼

  1. Enterprise Account Executive, Climate Analytics - Finance

    • Organization: Jupiter

    • Location: New York, NY; Hybrid

    • Description: The Enterprise Account Executive will drive enterprise-level new business and revenue growth within the Banking and Finance verticals by selling Jupiter’s climate risk analytics solutions. Responsibilities include full-cycle sales execution, account mapping, strategic account planning, and collaboration with internal technical teams to tailor solutions for clients. This role is remote, requiring strong sales acumen, technical understanding, and the ability to close complex SaaS deals.

    • Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP

    • Salary: $150,000 - $165,000

    • Link to Apply: Click Here

  2. Project Director

    • Organization: Karp Strategies

    • Location: New York, NY; Hybrid

    • Description: The Project Director is a senior leader responsible for managing project strategy, leading project teams, overseeing client relationships, and ensuring financial health across projects. This role includes stakeholder engagement, strategy development, and planning in economic development, infrastructure, and public policy sectors. Directors also mentor staff, shape firm strategy, and contribute to business development initiatives.

    • Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP

    • Salary: $110,000 - $155,000

    • Link to Apply: Click Here

  3. Sr. Portfolio Manager

    • Organization: Growald Climate Fund

    • Location: Boston, MA; Hybrid

    • Description: The Sr. Portfolio Manager will support the Venture Portfolio Director in identifying, managing, and scaling high-impact climate organizations. Responsibilities include overseeing a portfolio of grantees, conducting due diligence, tracking impact, leading strategic convenings, and contributing to program strategy. The role also involves grantmaking, compliance monitoring, and relationship-building with key stakeholders.

    • Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP

    • Salary: $85,000 - $110,000

    • Link to Apply: Click Here

  4. Environment Program Officer

    • Organization: The Kresge Foundation

    • Location: Troy, MI

    • Description: The Environment Program Officer will advance the foundation’s climate justice goals by managing grants within the Climate Change, Health, and Equity Initiative (CCHE) and supporting field-building efforts. This role involves structuring grant portfolios, collaborating with internal and external partners, contributing to broader grantmaking strategies, and integrating climate action into the foundation’s work. The Program Officer will engage with nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and philanthropic partners to drive equitable climate solutions in U.S. cities.

    • Deadline to Apply: 3/10/2025

    • Salary: $140,545+

    • Link to Apply: Click Here

  5. Director of Environmental Health

    • Organization: WE ACT for Environmental Justice

    • Location: New York, NY; Hybrid

    • Description: WE ACT is seeking a Director of Environmental Health to lead its efforts in improving environmental health outcomes for communities of color and low-income populations. This role oversees the organization’s environmental health programs, campaigns, and research initiatives, including air monitoring, cumulative impacts, and the Beauty Justice campaign. The Director will manage the Environmental Health Department, collaborate with policy teams, engage in coalition-building, and represent WE ACT in public and academic forums.

    • Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP

    • Salary: $110,000 - $115,000

    • Link to Apply: Click Here

👉🏾 Visit this Airtable for all job opps.

RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑

  1. RFP: Climate Career Bridge Fellowship

    • Issued By: Climate Talent Initiative (CTI)

    • Scope: The Climate Career Bridge Fellowship provides stipends, mentoring, and networking support to experienced climate professionals in career transition, enabling them to develop new projects that contribute to the just energy transition.

    • Budget: Not disclosed

    • Deadline for Proposals: Rolling, Apply ASAP

    • Details & Submission Link: Click Here

  2. Call for Applicants: Innovandi Open Challenge 2025

    • Issued By: Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA)

    • Scope: The Innovandi Open Challenge 2025 seeks start-ups developing next-generation materials for net-zero concrete, including innovative low-carbon admixtures, supplementary cementitious materials (SCMs), activators, and binders. Selected start-ups will collaborate with GCCA members to accelerate industrialization. Start-ups working on novel SCMs, admixtures, activators, or binders with a focus on innovation, environmental impact, resource scalability, energy efficiency, and CO₂ use. Carbon capture, kiln electrification, and alternative fuels are not eligible.

    • Budget: Not disclosed

    • Deadline for Proposals: 4/20/25

    • Details & Submission Link: Click Here

  3. RFP: Climate Service Corps

    • Issued By: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center

    • Scope: MassCEC’s Climate Service Corps seeks to strengthen the Commonwealth’s clean energy workforce by 38% by 2030, offering young people—especially those from Environmental Justice neighborhoods—access to living-wage careers. This initiative provides direct funding and technical assistance to organizations that deliver work-based learning, skills training, career guidance, and service opportunities for individuals aged 18–24. Implementation and Planning Grants are available to help local organizations and partnerships design and scale effective career pathway programs.

    • Budget: $50,000 for planning, $350,000 for implementation

    • Deadline for Proposals: 3/17/25

    • Details & Submission Link: Click Here

  4. RFP: Compliance Officer for Green Bank Rapid Start Team

    • Issued By: Green Bank for Rural America

    • Scope: Seeking a Compliance Officer to support the launch of the Green Bank for Rural America by overseeing compliance, risk management, federal grant auditing, and adherence to EPA and federal regulations.

    • Budget: Not disclosed

    • Deadline for Proposals: Rolling, Apply ASAP

    • Details & Submission Link: Click Here

  5. RFP: Commercial Development Strategy

    • Issued By: Better Cotton Initiative

    • Scope: Better Cotton is seeking a consultancy to develop innovative strategies for maximizing its earned income while supporting sustainable cotton farming communities. The consultancy will assess market needs, explore new revenue streams, and propose business models that align with market demands and BCI’s long-term sustainability mission.

    • Budget: Not disclosed

    • Deadline for Proposals: 3/10/2025

    • Details & Submission Link: Click Here

Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra) Resources + Uplift

  • BP Calls It Quits on Sustainability : One thing that you can always rely on when it comes to fossil fuel companies, especially the multinationals, is that they will always do what is profitable in the near term. This week has seen British Petroleum, now infamous for its sustainability-coded marketing campaign of Beyond Petroleum, abandoned its sustainability commitments. This should come as no surprise given BP’s horrific track record in the Gulf Coast.

  • Big Banks & Big Oil: Wells Fargo has joined the club of financial institutions that have abandoned their targets of net-zero financed emissions by 2050. In short, they’re going to continue to make money through methods that they acknowledged that they should be cutting back on.

While its clear that large institutions will continue to lag on the progress that they need to make, we know that all change starts at the local level.

For those of you who’ve never experienced Mardi Gras, I’m sure it conjures up lots of vivid imagery (and likely some inaccurate stereotypes).

One thing that is almost always missed from the carnival narrative is just how wasteful of an experience it is! All of these plastic beads go into our drains, catch basins, and who knows where else 😨

This is all the more reason that it is exciting to see folks that have been in the trenches for years pushing for a more sustainable approach while honoring our culture get some shine. Take a moment to watch this short video about Grounds Krewe.

Finally, Mardi Gras is a season, but New Orleans is a way of life. Watch this moving tribute to the city and its people voiced by my friend, Cierra, creator of Noir N Nola.

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Oh yeah, almost forgot, Hail Bacchus, Hail Shaq! ← not a cult, I promise 🙋🏾‍♂️

Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾

In solidarity,

Trace