Hey Folks! Question: Has anyone come across funding opportunities to support the creation of cooling hubs or resilience centers? 🙏🏾
Also, I’ll likely be in NYC for Climate Week so please hmu!
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By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 35+
Job Opps: 70+
Contract Opps: 20+
Funding Opportunities 💰
Social Innovation Lab by John Hopkins
Who it's for: Accelerates leaders and ventures building innovative, sustainable, and scalable solutions for a healthy and prosperous world. The program provides mentorship, training, and access to funding networks for mission-driven ventures. to early-stage ventures from Johns Hopkins or the greater Baltimore area with demonstrated traction.
Funding Amount: $5,000 -$15,000
Deadline: 9/27/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
E-Team Program by VentureWell
Who it's for: The E-Team Program supports student ventures developing scalable science/engineering-based innovations that solve social, health, or environmental challenges.
Funding Amount: $25,000
Deadline: 9/30/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
NYC Good Neighbor Grant by Ford Foundation
Who it's for: The NYC Good Neighbor Grant provides unrestricted funding to community-based organizations working locally in New York City. The program prioritizes initiatives that reduce barriers of inequality, create opportunity, and improve quality of life for NYC communities.
Funding Amount: $30,000-$100,000
Deadline: 9/30/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Growing Justice Fund 2025
Who it's for: Growing Justice Fund invests in efforts to solidify the leadership, dignity, and power of Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant people in food systems. The Fund supports equitable good food procurement through community-serving institutions like schools, hospitals, and elder care centers.
Funding Amount: $25,000 - $250,000
Deadline: 10/14/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Exploring Equitable Futures by RWJF
Who it's for: This funding opportunity supports visionary projects that explore unconventional ideas to radically advance health equity. Projects should investigate emerging trends and reimagine systems to dismantle structural racism and improve community health outcomes.
Funding Amount: $250,000 - $500,000
Deadline: 10/15/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
Deputy Director
Organization: Donor Organizer Hub
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead training and coaching multiplication systems to scale volunteer fundraiser capacity across social movements. Manage partnerships with progressive organizations to build their volunteer fundraising programs while developing internal systems for organizational growth.
Deadline to Apply: 9/30/2025
Salary: $75,000-$90,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Network Advancement Director
Organization: Resource Rural (Heartland Fund)
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Designs and delivers programs for rural community partners to advance their progress and create greater impact through grant management, strategic consulting, and network development. Mobilizes resources to enable rural communities to unlock public and private investment across infrastructure, economic development, energy, and climate projects.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $90,000 - $120,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Digital Marketing Manager
Organization: New Disabled South
Location: AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, OK, TN, TX, VA; Remote
Description: Digital Marketing Manager responsible for executing New Disabled South's digital marketing strategy with emphasis on email marketing, website management, and digital campaigns. Role combines hands-on execution with project coordination and oversight of external creative partners to advance disability rights and justice in the South.
Deadline to Apply: 9/22/2025
Salary: $80,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Stewardship & Funder Relations Manager, Donor Communications
Organization: ClimateWorks Foundation
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Develop and implement stewardship and engagement strategies for ClimateWorks Foundation funders, creating customized communications and reports that showcase impact. Work closely with Philanthropic Partnerships team to build strong, long-lasting relationships that support the organization's climate mission.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $105,000 - $115,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Associate Research Director
Organization: Sweet Grass Consulting
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Support clients and community partners on research initiatives that advance mission-driven impact in economically burdened communities. Design and manage 3-6 quantitative, qualitative, and mixed-methods research projects simultaneously, translating findings into actionable insights for communities and organizations.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $84,000-$96,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
RFP: 2026 CriticalMass
Issued By: Massachusetts Clean Energy Center
Scope: CriticalMass is a growth-stage Tech-to-Market program offering up to $1,000,000 in funding, services, and partner matchmaking to climatetech startups. The program supports commercial deployment projects that address decarbonization challenges and contribute to Massachusetts’ clean energy economy.
Funding: $1,000,000
Deadline for Proposals: 9/22/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Call for Applicants: L'Oréal Sustainable Innovation Accelerator
Issued By: L'Oréal Groupe and Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL)
Scope: L'Oréal partners with CISL to scout, identify, pilot, and scale breakthrough technologies addressing critical solution gaps within the beauty industry. The program seeks deployment-ready sustainability innovations from startups and established companies at TRL 7 or higher across seven key innovation areas including low-carbon technologies, water resilience, and circular economy solutions.
Funding: Not disclosed
Deadline for Proposals: 9/30/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
RFP: Community-Led Green Infrastructure
Issued By: Greater New Orleans Foundation (GNOF)
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.
Funding: $50,000 – $150,000
Deadline for Proposals: 10/24/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
Cancer is one of the scourges humanity faces with 600,000 people expected to die from it this year. The current admin’s policies that rollback environmental protections of refineries, heavy industry, power plants, and more is going to increase YOUR risk. This occurring while crucial funding for cancer research is being cut, potentially slowing the pace of life-saving interventions while expanding the fossil fuel empire. Remember, this was not inevitable, but the results of deliberate choices.
Looking Ahead: Upcoming Events 🗓️
Date: 9/21/2025
Location: Global ☀️☀️☀️
Host: Lots of Environmental Orgs!
Description: “Sun Day is a day of action to celebrate the power of clean energy. On September 21st, people everywhere will be showcasing solar installations, electric homes and vehicles running on clean power. By organizing thousands of events on the fall Equinox, Sun Day will help accelerate the ongoing clean energy revolution: we have the technology and the solutions, all we need is to build the political will to scale-up and accelerate clean energy and make it accessible to all.”
Sign Up: Click Here
⚡️ Recharge ⚡️
Climate ☑
Construction ☑
Cooperative ☑
In Baltimore City there’s an entire ecosystem of cooperatives, particularly those working construction, real estate, and sustainable infrastructure backed by the support of BRED, the Baltimore Roundtable for Economic Democracy. One such coop is WaterBottle, a real estate holding company that owns 25 affordable properties in West Baltimore via Rising and AFS, which does construction and renovation. These ventures have spun out additional models such a StreetWell, which is leading community-owned real estate projects with an emphasis on sustainability.
Streetwell partnered with Earth Economics to conduct an analysis of the return-on-investment of green infrastructure such as tree planting and stormwater management. Annually, this results in $110,000 worth of heat mitigation , $7,000 of flood mitigation, and $3,000 worth of social cohesion. Across all ecosystem services this results in a return of $7 for every $1 invested! 🤯
Image source: The Guardian
In solidarity,
Trace