Resource Radar: ✊🏽😤 | Week of May 5
$25k for local development, roles in housing, cities, & inclusive economies, and what Sinners teaches us
Common River
May 06, 2025
Good people! Hope that y'all are having an excellent start to your week. We have a shorter edition today as life is life-ing this week 😵💫. We still got y'all though! 🫡
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When your international friends ask how things are going in the “States”…
Just send them this. No further context needed.
By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 25+
Job Opps: 120+
Contract Opps: 5
Funding Opportunities 💰
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 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
Senior Researcher, Housing + Cities
Organization: Sightline Institute
Location: Charlottesville, VA or Richmond, VA
Description: This role will lead policy research and advocacy to promote housing abundance as a solution to affordability, climate change, equity, and sprawl with a focus on WA but may include work in other Cascadian regions.
Deadline to Apply: 5/7/2025
Salary: $86,000-$105,000
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
Personal Assistant
Organization: Everlight Solar
Location: Houston, TX; Hybrid
Description: Everlight Solar is hiring a hybrid Personal Assistant to support administrative tasks, event planning, and personal errands. The role requires strong organizational skills, flexibility, and comfort with Apple software.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $40,000–$50,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Senior Fellow, Inclusive Economy
Organization: Center for American Progress
Location: Washington, D.C.; In-person
Description: This role will provide thought leadership and conduct rigorous economic analysis to shape CAP’s economic policy agenda, including developing original analyses, representing the organization publicly, coordinating economic policy projects, and advising colleagues.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $120,000+
Link to Apply: Click Here
Customer Success Lead
Organization: Crux
Location: United States; Remote
Description: The Customer Success Lead will manage key intermediary accounts, drive onboarding, and ensure customer satisfaction and retention. This role involves collaborating across teams, improving customer metrics, and supporting enterprise clients in maximizing platform value.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $170,000-$225,000 plus equity
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)
The next few weeks might be a grind — but we believe in this group and the work that y’all are putting in every day 😤
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
This portal provides relevant data critical to the ongoing work of ensuring that we can create economies where we all have clean air, water, land, and healthy environments. This work is especially crucial in light of the ongoing purges of federal gov data.
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
Date: May 15, 2025 12:00 PM EET
Location: Virtual
Host: Justice Funders
Description: Justice Funders invites you to hear from Harmony Initiative graduates and funder organizing allies about practices and strategies to navigate difficult times, while laying groundwork to advance radical change. We will close with sharing information about the Harmony Initiative.
Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
While Sinners is fictional, it points to the models of solidarity forged in Mississippi and throughout the Deep South amidst the physical and economic terror of Jim Crow.
We’ll spare y’all another thinkpiece on the film, but IMO, its an instant classic. As we’ve mentioned before, during these uncertain times, the ancestors have something to teach us. Without spoilers, the juke joint in Sinners only came to fruition in large part because of the collective support from community members within the Mississippi Delta. This points us back to deep history of economic solidarity in the South, with a shining example of that being the great Fannie Lou Hamer’s Freedom Farm Cooperative.
“The time has come now when we are going to have to get what we need ourselves. We may get a little help, here and there, but in the main we’re going to have to do it ourselves”- Fannie Lou Hamer, 1969
With some modest financial backing and a commitment to keeping the cooperative’s priority of being purpose-built for poor folks. The cost of joining the cooperative as a member was $1 in 1969, which converts to ~$9 in today’s currency. Freedom Farm Cooperative eventually grew to 640+ acres. While the farm was successful, the lack of undercapitalization from the start and ongoing funding streams led to its closure. For those with access to capital this is a lesson to be learned in this times of increased austerity. Now is the time to double down, not run.
Image source: https://mdcinc.org/2025/02/06/a-rural-story/
Let’s continue to build together 💪🏾
In solidarity,
Trace