Resource Radar: ⚡️😤 | Week of June 23
Last Chance for Legal Defense & Disability Rights $$$, Resilience & Worker Power Jobs, + cLeAn EnErGy 😷
Common River
June 24, 2025
Hey Folks! Shorter edition this week as I’m visiting home and leaning into rejuvenation. Rest is often hard to find for me(and I suspect for you too), but time spent with loved ones is restorative.
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Checking your news notification over the last week
By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 50+
Job Opps: 130+
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
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
Resilience Program Manager
Organization: Finance New Orleans
Location: New Orleans, LA; Hybrid
Description: Lead the development and management of clean energy and energy efficiency programs that promote climate resilience and energy equity in New Orleans. Collaborate with diverse stakeholders to implement scalable, inclusive solutions and oversee program operations, compliance, and community engagement.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $85,000 – $95,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Deputy Director
Organization: U.S. Federation of Worker Cooperatives
Location: United States; Remote
Description: The Deputy Director will support the Executive Director in strategic planning, team management, and program execution to advance worker ownership and cooperative development. This role involves cross-functional coordination, organizational effectiveness, and stakeholder engagement.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $90,000 - $100,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Director of Worker Power and Economic Security
Organization: Roosevelt Institute
Location: United States (NYC or DMV preferred); Remote
Description: The Director will lead Roosevelt’s work on labor markets and worker organizing, developing strategy, conducting research, and representing the organization externally. This role includes managing fellows, producing publications, and collaborating across teams to advance worker power and economic security.
Deadline to Apply: 6/27/2025
Salary: $155,000 - $170,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Small Business Lending Director
Organization: Nectar Community Investments
Location: Lawrence, MA; Hybrid
Description: The Small Business Lending Director will lead Nectar’s small business lending program, overseeing loan origination, underwriting, and portfolio management. This role is responsible for developing lending strategies, managing a team, and ensuring alignment with community-focused financial goals.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $125,000 - $145,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Community Engagement Associate
Organization: New_Public
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Support local community stewards in building inclusive digital spaces and contribute to a playbook for launching local online communities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams and help translate community feedback into product improvements.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $70,000 - $77,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
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
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
Rarely, do you see something that is so blatantly a grift for the fossil fuel industry. Legislation is being advanced in Louisiana that would classify gas and other hydrocarbons as being of the same equivalency as solar, wind, and other sources more commonly understood as being clean. And before any of you write this off as Louisiana being Louisiana, it is my firm belief and the evidence bears out, that so goes Louisiana and so goes the nation. And this is explicitly the tactic of these dark money groups
“In 2024, Gov. Landry [La. Gov] signed a pro-gas proclamation stating that “Louisiana recognizes natural gas as an affordable, reliable, and clean energy resource,” and that efforts to transition away from fossil fuels stand to “devastate” Louisiana consumers and economic growth.
The Louisiana proclamation was celebrated by a group called The Empowerment Alliance, a gas advocacy group. “That’s three down and 47 more states to go,” wrote the group, which is now pushing similar bills across the country.”
THIS IS A REAL IMAGE. NOT AI.
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
Date: June 25, 2025 12:00 PM ET
Location: Virtual
Host: Movement Labs + Analyst Institute
Description: How can we deepen grassroots power between election cycles—not just activate voters, but build lasting political homes? This session shares insights from Movement Labs' ongoing research into base-building, volunteer absorption, and nurturing long-term relational capacity. Learn how organizers are experimenting with new strategies, measuring impact beyond election outcomes, and reimagining what sustained, effective organizing can look like.
Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
We’re all being inundated by the rise of AI. But we should make explicit that as AI demand surges, major tech companies and local governments are utilizing this moment to expand gas power plants to meet the needs of the resource intensive data centers.
A community in northern Virginia, which has over 500+ data centers and known as “the Data Center Capital of the World”, developed a powerful campaign to stop the expansion of a data center that would increase particulate matter pollution in their area. Great reporting on this covered by Grist.
Things don’t always have to happen just because they’re proposed,” Stump said. “I mean, everybody has a voice, and we found out that our voices did count this time.
In solidarity,
Trace