Resource Radar: ✊🏽😤 | Week of Apr 28
Policy Role @Elevate, $500k for Just Transitions, + It's Gonna Be May(Day)
Common River
April 29, 2025
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By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 25+
Job Opps: 90+
Contract Opps: 5+
Funding Opportunities 💰
Humanitarian Prize by Conrad N. Hilton Foundation
Who it's for: The world’s largest annual humanitarian award honors a nonprofit for extraordinary contributions to alleviating human suffering and driving sustainable global progress.
Funding Amount: $2,500,000
Deadline: 4/30/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
O’Shaughnessy Fellowship by O’Shaughnessy Ventures (OSV)
Who it's for: A one-year program funding radically ambitious ideas in science, tech, media, and art. Ten Fellows receive $100K each; up to twenty additional applicants receive $10K grants and access to OSV’s support network.
Funding Amount: $100,000 for Fellows; $10,000 for select grantees
Deadline: 4/30/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Local Economy Lab by The Just Transition Fund
Who it's for: Supports scalable, community-led economic projects in coal-impacted areas with flexible grants and technical assistance to access public, private, and philanthropic capital.
Funding Amount: $250,000–$500,000
Deadline: 5/9/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Movement CARE Fund by Communities First Fund
Who it's for: Supports scalable, community-led economic projects in coal-impacted areas with flexible grants and technical assistance to access public, private, and philanthropic capital.
Funding Amount: $25,000
Deadline: 5/16/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
D-Prize Global Competition by the D-Prize
Who it's for: Awards seed funding to launch new organizations distributing proven poverty solutions in low- and middle-income countries.
Funding Amount: $20,000
Deadline: 5/18/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
⚡️⚡️⚡️ Good Governance Research Fellow, Summer 2025 ⚡️⚡️⚡️
Organization: Clean Virginia
Location: Charlottesville, VA or Richmond, VA
Description: Supports original research on corporate influence, campaign finance, and ethics reform in Virginia. Analyzes policy proposals, drafts reports, and helps shape recommendations for good governance reforms. Fellowship runs from May or June through August 2025, with potential to extend.
Deadline to Apply: 5/2/2025
Salary: $25/hour
Link to Apply: Click Here
Director, Policy
Organization: Elevate
Location: Illinois; Remote
Description: Leads clean energy and water policy development, advocacy, and regulatory compliance to support Elevate’s mission. Represents Elevate at external forums and collaborates with internal teams and partners to advance policy goals. Drafts policy materials, manages stakeholders, and supports internal policy education.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $110,000–$125,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Program Assistant, NLC Mutual-RISC
Organization: National League of Cities
Location: Washington, D.C.; Hybrid
Description: Provide remote administrative support for meetings, communications, and member engagement within the NLC Mutual and RISC programs. Coordinate logistics for conferences, manage databases, and assist with content development for newsletters and social media. Strong organizational and communication skills required.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $50,000–$55,000
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
Senior Associate, Power
Organization: The Rockefeller Foundation
Location: New York, NY; Hybrid
Description: Supports strategy implementation across renewable energy, energy access, and energy transition portfolios with a global focus. Responsibilities include research, grant development, project management, and partner coordination. Works on initiatives like GEAPP, Mission 300, and mini-grid scale-ups in developing regions.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $98,000–$110,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
RFP: Environmental Justice Curriculum Design
Issued By: WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Scope: WE ACT seeks a curriculum consultant to update and adapt its Environmental Health and Justice Leadership Training (EHJLT) program for use in its new Environmental Justice Center.
Budget: Max daily rate of $703.42
Deadline for Proposals: 5/8/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
Them: we should tone down all that environmental justice stuff
Me:
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
After Allen Field: Lesson’s From Houston’s Mandatory Buyout Program by Amal Ahmed for The Margin: Let me start by saying that The Margin and Counterstream are starting to become some of my favorite news sources. This piece covers the story of Dolores Mendoza, who while living in a Houston floodplain impacted by storms such as Hurricane Harvey was part of Harris County’s mandatory buyout program, which spent $200M to buyout ~400 properties and relocate these residents. Excellent writing.
From the article:
10 charts prove that clean energy is winning — even in the Trump era by Irfan et al for Vox & Grist: One of the steelmen arguments made by backers of fossil fuel is that it and only it can create the economics and reliability to create jobs and power our lives. These charts show that actual clean energy technologies can create jobs, generate clean power, all while protecting our and our communities’ right to healthy environments.
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
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
Date: Apr 30, 2025
Location: Virtual (Zoom)
Host: Oxfam America + Keecha Harris & Associates
Description: Sustaining Our Future: Community-Led Environmental Justice Description: This session will explore how communities are driving solutions for environmental resilience, climate justice, and sustainability. While policy decisions shape the landscape, local leaders, organizers, and practitioners are building innovative, community-driven models to protect health, land, and economic well-being. Through collective action, they are creating pathways toward clean energy, regenerative economies, and environmental restoration.
Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
What is the purpose of solidarity?
“ If you have come here to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together.” - delivered by Lilla Watson in 1985 and co-created with Aboriginal rights groups
As we approach this upcoming May Day aka International Workers’ Day, there’s lessons and inspiration to be taken from our ancestors. One such note is that of the Knights of Labor. Founded in Philadelphia in 1869, the KOL quickly spread nationally, organizing across racial and gender lines with their platform. Solidarity.
“An injury to one is the concern of all.”
Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾
In solidarity,
Trace