Hey Folks, sharing some thoughts today on the labor roots of the just transition and some great climate, worker ownership, and labor organizing opportunities. The last few weeks have been busy so apologies for the later in the day publishing! Hoping to get back on track next week! 🙏🏾
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The discourse around labor is…interesting
By the numbers:
Funding Opps: 40+
Job Opps: 55+
Contract Opps: 15+
Funding Opportunities 💰
Chinook Fund Grant
Who it's for: Chinook Fund provides grants ranging from $4,000 to $10,000 to grassroots social justice organizations in Colorado. The fund supports community-led efforts that address systemic oppression and promote long-term social change.
Funding Amount: $4,000 - $10,000
Deadline: 9/15/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
Cummings $30M Grant Program
Who it's for: Multi-year grants (3 or 10 years) supporting local nonprofits in Greater Boston area. Awards $30 million annually to 150 organizations with installments ranging from $10,000 to $100,000 per year.
Funding Amount: $30,000 - $300,000
Deadline: 9/17/2025
How to Apply: Click Here
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
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
Jobs & Fellowships 👨🏽💼👩🏽💼
Senior Creative Director
Organization: National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA)
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead and elevate NDWA's creative vision across brands, campaigns and initiatives as head of the Content Department. Develop innovative marketing campaigns that inspire action while managing and mentoring a creative team within this mission-driven organization advocating for domestic workers' rights.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $122,000 - $144,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Manager, Market Development South Central
Organization: U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)
Location: United States; Remote
Description: Lead market engagement and product adoption across the South Central region, driving community programming, stakeholder engagement, and volunteer management to advance USGBC's green building initiatives. Manage relationships with members, partners, and industry leaders while promoting LEED and other sustainability certifications through events, campaigns, and strategic partnerships.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $65,000 - $80,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Activate Imperial Initiative Director
Organization: Latino Community Foundation
Location: Imperial Valley, CA; Remote
Description: Lead LCF's capacity building and coordination efforts in the Imperial Valley, supporting grantmaking, convening, and advocacy. Steward community visioning efforts to align investments with community priorities and support community-driven narrative and policy work.
Deadline to Apply: Apply ASAP
Salary: $100,000 - $115,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Research Manager
Organization: Environmental Grantmakers Association
Location: New York, NY; Hybrid
Description: The Research Manager manages EGA's Tracking the Field database and research program, overseeing data collection, analysis, and reporting on environmental grantmaking trends. This role involves managing a team of 5-7 research consultants and producing biannual reports analyzing over 180,000 grants to identify key findings for the environmental philanthropy sector.
Deadline to Apply: 9/7/2025
Salary: $80,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
Cecil Corbin-Mark Fellowship for Environmental Justice Leadership
Organization: WE ACT for Environmental Justice
Location: New York, NY; Hybrid
Description: Year-long fellowship focusing on environmental justice policy issues, community-based policy advocacy, legislative and regulatory drafting, policy research, and community engagement. Fellows will work on WE ACT campaigns alongside seasoned environmental justice leaders while gaining experience in environmental health, policy, and community organizing.
Deadline to Apply: 9/30/2025
Salary: $70,000
Link to Apply: Click Here
RFP & Contracting Opportunities 📑
RFP: Human Resources Consultant for Worker Self-Directed Organization
Issued By: Beloved Community Incubator
Scope: Beloved Community Incubator seeks a human resources consultant to develop their Worker Manual, key policies, and evaluation program for their worker self-directed nonprofit organization. The consultant will also support onboarding/offboarding processes, grievance resolution, risk management, and ongoing HR support for cooperative incubation work.
Budget: $10,000 - $25,000
Deadline for Proposals: 9/7/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
RFP: Environmental Policy Accelerator Program
Issued By: Aspen Institute
Scope: A 6-week, part-time, unpaid virtual program designed to help individuals and teams refine environmental policy solutions. Participants will workshop their ideas weekly and learn frameworks for achieving policy impact through structured instruction and peer feedback.
Funding: N/A
Deadline for Proposals: 9/11/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
RFP: E2 Emerging Leader Program Manager
Issued By: Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
Scope: E2 seeks a creative and driven consultant to identify, develop, organize and empower the next generation of business leaders for environmental advocacy. The position involves overseeing work with early and mid-stage business leaders and managing the E2 1Hotels Fellowship program.
Budget: $4,000 - $5,000/month
Deadline for Proposals: 9/15/2025
Details & Submission Link: Click Here
Lagniappe ⚜ (a lil extra)
News Scan: Updates to Track 📰
While we know that that extreme heat is the most deadly of climate events in the United States, it often conjures images of those laboring outside such as those in construction, farmworkers, delivery workers. This Grist article illuminates that the oppressive high INDOOR heat conditions experienced by many fast-food workers as they’re navigating grills, burners, and more in tightly confined spaces. Emerging efforts by these workers and the SEIU are making positive progress here.
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 ⚡️
The Labor origins of the Just Transition
The Late Tony Mazzochi, Former Leader of the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers
The late Tony Mazzochi, was a leader in the Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers, which eventually was merged into what is now the United Steelworkers. Mazzochi, is credited with seeding the idea of the just transition. In his seminal piece, A Superfund for Workers, he articulated this vision:
In 1989, prior to the release of his Superfund piece, he spoke to members of the AFSCME Local 444 in Oakland, CA. Maazochi, an Army vet spoke about how after WWII the federal government provided funding to returning soldiers that included 52 weeks of salary at 60% of the median workers wages giving them time to transition back home. It is in this vain that he shares the following:
“I’m not a proponent of work. I still maintain the program the labor movement should be forget jobs we should look out for income. I think we need a transition I think we go take care of nature environment…we’ve got to switch over to a different type of work. “
In solidarity,
Trace