Good People! Apologies for the delay in sending this out as I’ve been on the ground connecting with folks doing the work. It’s been a great reminder that while the sharing of resources is needed, the sharing of time and of presence and the breaking of bread is the foundational element for all of this. 🙏🏾
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The discourse around labor is…interesting
By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 30+
Job Opps: 60+
Contract Opps: 15+
Funding Opportunities 💰
Community Voices Fund by Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF)
Who it's for: The Community Voices Fund supports creative, community-centered media and media-making across Greater Philadelphia that strengthens social justice movement-building and community organizing. Projects can include community storytelling, community-centered news and information, or use of archives to preserve and amplify histories of social justice movements.
Funding Amount: $10,000 - $30,000
Deadline: 9/18/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Stanley 1913 Creators Fund
Who it's for: The Stanley 1913 Creators Fund invests in early-stage nonprofit organizations through unrestricted support to uplift emerging leaders creating innovative ideas that strengthen communities. The program celebrates creators, builders, and inventors driven by a mission to create a better way for a better life and world.
Funding Amount: $50,000
Deadline: 9/19/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Charitable Programs Grant by Patagonia Provisions
Who it's for: Patagonia Provisions offers grants to nonprofit organizations aligned with their charitable focus on preservation, education, and wellness. They support animal rights, early childhood education, teacher development, and outdoor activity programs.
Funding Amount: $50,000
Deadline: 9/26/2025
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
AT&T Small Business Contest
Who it's for: Contest for small business owners to win funding and support from AT&T's #ShesConnected community of athletes and entrepreneurs. Winners receive cash prizes, AT&T services, and content feature opportunities.
Funding Amount: $50,000
Deadline: 9/30/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
Project Coordinator
Organization: Powered by Faith
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Seeking an organized, systems-oriented Project Coordinator to support the operational and logistical backbone of Powered by Faith, a strategic initiative mobilizing faith communities to defend democracy. Role involves coordinating across internal systems, external partners, and diverse leadership cohort with focus on logistics and grants management.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $8,500/mo
Link to Apply: Click Here
Team Lead, Technical Customer Service
Organization: U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead a team of technical customer service specialists focused on LEED certification support, managing performance and coaching up to 4 direct reports while triaging customer inquiries. Partner with cross-functional teams to identify customer confusion points and clarify LEED requirements while contributing to process improvements and special projects.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $80,000 - $105,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Director, Information Security
Organization: Tides
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and operations for a progressive nonprofit organization, managing security frameworks, incident response, and compliance in a cloud-forward environment. Report to Senior Director of IT while building and scaling cybersecurity programs that support social justice initiatives.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $132,600 - $199,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Program Associate
Organization: Blue Crab Strategies
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Blue Crab Strategies seeks a Program Associate to assist senior leadership with managing relationships, people, and projects in their climate work globally. The role involves project management, client coordination, research and analysis, and relationship cultivation in the climate-organizing space.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $65,000-$70,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Housing Policy Manager
Organization: Climate and Community Institute
Location: United States; Remote
Description: The Climate and Community Institute seeks a Housing Policy Manager to conduct visionary housing research that sets the agenda for green housing policy and supports progressive advocates and organizers. This position will focus on green social housing policy, industrial policies for housing, and work directly with movement partners to advance housing and climate justice.
Deadline to Apply: 10/5/2025
Salary: $108,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
RFP: Own the HOU Video Library: Video Production
Issued By: Own the HOU
Scope: Own the HOU seeks a creative video production partner to produce a series of 3-5 minute educational videos for homebuyers and homeowners in Houston and Harris County. The videos will complement a broader toolkit of resources and focus on lived experiences, clarifying complex processes, and fostering trust between homebuyers and professionals.
Budget: Not disclosed
Deadline for Proposals: 9/26/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
RFP: 2025 Annual Impact Report
Issued By: Arctaris
Scope: Arctaris seeks support to prepare its 2025 Annual Impact Report, their flagship report that communicates values, strategy, investments, and impact. The organization may work with multiple partners across three workstreams: overall structure/messaging/design, quantitative data collection and analysis, and case studies.
Budget: $150,000
Deadline for Proposals: 9/28/2025
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)
Image source: Age of Awareness
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
Hyundai has made news for the federal immigration raid in Georgia. The company is also simultaneously planning to expand into Louisiana with a $600M incentive by the State of La. Don’t gloss over that — $600,000,000! Could you imagine what that funding would do to support local small business development, schools, health care facilities? Always enough money for billion dollar multinational polluters industrial but never enough for the multigenerational descendants and residents of south Louisiana. The good folks at Rural Roots and Louisiana Bucket Brigade are calling it like they see it.
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 ⚡️
Honoring the past, Building the future
Restored schoolhouse built by Washington & Rosenwald. Photo by RRAM
I recently had the opportunity to visit River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville, Louisiana. The organization has a restored a school built by Booker T Washington and Julius Rosenwald and is one the few restored, operational schools in existence. The Rosenwald schools were created to support the education of Black students during the height of Jim Crow segregation. Additionally, the RRAM is in the midst of restoring the True Friends Benevolent Society Hall, a hub of mutual aid for Donaldsonville.
This work is not only historic preservation and restoration, but its also community revitalization creating more jobs and economic opportunity, while shifting how residents view themselves and their history. It ALSO presents a tremendous job creation, small business development, and cooperative development for these rural communities to restore homes and building and to implement weatherization and energy efficiency measures.
True Friends Benevolent Society Hall. Photo by RRAM
In solidarity,
Trace