Hey Good People! Got some good stuff this edition around electric bills, soon to close funding opps, and some encouragement from the future 🙏🏾
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By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 35+
Job Opps: 60
Contract Opps: 20+
Funding Opportunities
Sparks of Regeneration by Unearthodox
Who it's for: An 8-month incubation program for innovators and change-makers with early-stage regenerative projects that embrace social equity, community-led change, and systems thinking. Selected participants receive funding and access to shared non-financial support including mentoring, peer learning, and networking opportunities.
Funding Amount: $10,000
Deadline: 10/9/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
100 Grant Initiative by Oceanic Global x Corona's Beach
Who it's for: The Beach 100 Grant Initiative protects and restores beaches and ecosystems for a thriving blue planet. This program addresses plastic pollution, coastal resilience, and habitat restoration through two funding tiers.
Funding Amount: $5,000 - $100,000
Deadline: 10/13/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Changemakers Program by Toast
Who it's for: The Toast Changemakers Program supports restaurant owners working to reduce food insecurity in their communities. This initiative provides grant funding to restaurants that create meaningful efforts to fight hunger and amplify their community impact.
Funding Amount: $150,000
Deadline: 10/17/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Texas Coastal Frontline Fund by Jacob & Terese Hershey Foundation
Who it's for: The Texas Coastal Frontline Fund provides flexible grants to resident-led nonprofit organizations working along the Texas Gulf Coast to curb pollution and advance equitable clean energy transition. Grants are one-time payments ranging from $35,000-$75,000 each, distributed through settlement funds from environmental advocacy litigation.
Funding Amount: $35,000 - $75,000
Deadline: 10/24/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Quarterly Grant Program by Nasdaq Philanthropic Foundation
Who it's for: The Foundation funds organizations that equip under-resourced communities with financial knowledge to participate in wealth creation through markets. It also supports entrepreneurs from under-resourced communities with resources to strengthen and scale their businesses.
Funding Amount: $75,000
Deadline: 10/24/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
National Co-Executive Director (Organizing & Programs)
Organization: Black Youth Project 100 (BYP100)
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Co-create vision and strategic direction for BYP100's next chapter, leading organizing campaigns and political education for Black 18-35 year old activists. Partner with Co-Executive Director to strengthen organizational culture, expand membership base, and advance justice and freedom for all Black people.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $133,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Delta Regen Rice+ Program Director
Organization: Soil & Climate Initiative
Location: Mississippi Delta Region; Hybrid
Description: Lead the Delta Regen Rice+ Program to transition farmers from conventional to regenerative farming practices in the Mississippi Delta region. Build partnerships with processors, supply chain partners, and stakeholders to create market incentives for regeneratively grown crops while managing program implementation and impact measurement.
Deadline to Apply: 10/9/2025
Salary: $85,000 - $90,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Project Manager, Future of Work & Innovation Economy Initiative
Organization: New America
Location: Washington, D.C.; Hybrid
Description: Lead project manager for the Accelerator for Community Colleges in the Innovation Economy initiative, supporting community colleges in building institutional capacity for STEM/emerging technology workforce development. Provide technical assistance, manage web workshops, coordinate regional summits, and support communications efforts for colleges partnering with NSF's Regional Innovation Engines program.
Deadline to Apply: 10/17/2025
Salary: $90,000 - $100,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Director, Connecting Capital and Community (3C)
Organization: The Chicago Community Trust
Location: Chicago, IL; Hybrid
Description: Lead the Connecting Capital and Community (3C) initiative to expand homeownership opportunities in Chicago's underinvested communities. Oversee strategic planning, fundraising, stakeholder management, and implementation of housing equity solutions while determining the future organizational structure of the initiative.
Deadline to Apply: 10/19/2025
Salary: $125,000 - $140,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Director of Strategy & Impact
Organization: Partners for Public Good
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead organizational strategy execution, impact measurement, and stakeholder engagement for a nonprofit helping state and local governments improve core operational functions. Drive strategic planning, develop evaluation frameworks, and craft compelling narratives to advance the organization's mission of ensuring every resident has a government they can count on.
Deadline to Apply: 10/19/2025
Salary: $165,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
RFP: E3 Durham Storytelling Marketing
Issued By: Forward Cities
Scope: Forward Cities seeks contractors to manage storytelling and documentation for the E3 Durham program, a place-based entrepreneurship initiative supported by Durham County's ARPA funding. The selected contractor will provide event photography/videography and create promotional content for the Durham E3 Alliance partner organizations.
Budget: $13,500
Deadline for Proposals: 10/10/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
RFP: Community-Led Green Infrastructure
Issued By: Greater New Orleans Foundation
Scope: The New Orleans Community Support Foundation invites applications from nonprofit organizations for grants to support community-led green infrastructure projects in the Greater New Orleans region. This initiative aims to advance environmental well-being and community resilience through flood mitigation, community resilience, and water quality improvement projects in vulnerable and underserved communities.
Budget: $50,000 - $150,000
Deadline for Proposals: 10/24/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Call for Submissions: Explorations in Climate Psychology Issue 8
Issued By: Explorations in Climate Psychology
Scope: Explorations in Climate Psychology is seeking submissions for Issue 8, themed 'Heavy weather: Exploring reactionary states of mind'. The issue will explore the psychological dimensions of reactionary responses to climate change and the role of environmental thinking in shaping inclusion and exclusion.
Budget: N/A
Deadline for Proposals: 10/31/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
A man asked me for a dollar. I told him I only carry big bills. He asked for one of those. I gave him my electric bill.
— Dad Jokes (@dadsaysjokes.com) 2025-10-05T21:11:52.380Z
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
The cancellation of the billions in Solar For All funding is destroying what would have been ~200,000 new jobs across the country while guaranteeing 20% electric bill savings for households. I don’t know if y’all have been paying attention but electric bills are going up and the job market is 😳. And let’s not forget that approximately 28,000,000 Americans, right here, right now, are already energy burdened, spending more than 6% of their income on energy bills. The SELC is joined by Lawyers for Good Government, Conservation Law Foundation, the Lawyers Committee for Rhode Island, the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, and Solar United Neighbors.
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
Date:
10/7/2025; 10/20/2025; 10/29/2025Location: Virtual
Title: Federal Shifts & Impact on Community Programming
Host: Emerald Cities Collaborative
Description: “As shifting federal policies reshape funding streams, regulatory priorities, and nonprofit capacity, communities on the ground are left to adapt and find new pathways forward. This three-part webinar series brings together nonprofit leaders, advocates, funders, and local governments to explore how we can build resilience, collaborate across sectors, and ensure that equity remains at the center of our collective response.”
Sign Up: Click Here
Date: 11/17/2025 - 11/19/2025
Location: Atlanta, GA
Title: 2025 Southeast Energy Summit
Host: Southeast Energy Efficiency Alliance
Description: “The annual Southeast Energy Summit brings together the brightest minds in the industry to connect, explore and innovate for a more energy-efficient Southeast.”
Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
“If you are receiving this transmission before 2030, I know that you are living in a dark chapter of our lineage—facing a global rise in authoritarianism, g*n*c*de, wars, extreme climate disasters, and a regression of rights. This letter from the future is meant to give you hope about what is possible and share how your decisions led to the emergence of a new economic system and thriving world. I am calling to you from a future you helped create and want to remind you that possibility is not lost.”
My note of caution though, Ancestor, is to please not mistake hope for ease. Your generation will need to make some hard decisions about who should own, govern, and steward resources at an individual and communal level. These decisions will require courage and the belief that what you experience now in the world can be different and so much better.
Artist: We Are, by NSN997 for Fine Acts
This letter shares the story of organizations and movements that exist right now in the 2025. These are orgs like the Kensington Corridor Trust who are having locally and collective owned land and real estate to revitalize a de-industrialized North Philadelphia
In solidarity,
Trace