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.
If you enjoy, share with a friend! 🙌🏾
Table of Contents
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
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
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
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
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.”
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. 🫡
In solidarity,
Trace