VIBES: BENITO BELIEVES, DO YOU?
Could not resist jumping on the Bad Bunny bandwagon and dropping this gem of a reminder 🫡🕺🏾
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💰 Funding Opps 20+
Open Call Grants by the Clif Family Foundation
💰 $5,000 - $50,000
✍🏾 General operating grants for organizations advancing regenerative farming, food justice, climate solutions, and healthy community access.
📅 Mar 1, 2026 📍 United States
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Youth Climate Justice Fund 2026 by YCJF
💰 $20,000 - $40,000
✍🏾 Grants up to for youth-led climate justice and socio-environmental groups worldwide.
📅 Mar 1, 2026 📍 United States + Global
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Racial & Economic Justice Fund by Bread & Roses
💰 $10,000
✍🏾 Grants for community organizing groups promoting racial and economic justice or working on emerging social justice issues
📅 Mar 2, 2026 📍 United States
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Fellowship by Camelback Ventures
💰 $50,000
✍🏾 16-week fellowship providing capital, coaching, and connections to early-stage entrepreneurs addressing education and technology inequities
📅 Mar 2, 2026 📍 United States
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2026 Grants Competition by the Climate Smart Communities Initiative
💰 $60,000-$115,000
✍🏾 Grants for community-based climate resilience projects in frontline US communities
📅 Mar 12, 2026 📍 United States
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💼 Jobs & Fellowships 80+
Flood Resilience Specialist for the City of Philadelphia
💵 $60,000 - $75,000
✍🏾 Coordinate Philadelphia's flood resilience programs and communicate climate risk to strengthen the city's preparedness for flooding.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Philadelphia, PA; In-Person
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Director of Environmental Justice for the Ecology Center
💵 $84,872 - $92,372
✍🏾 Lead environmental justice programs and clean air coalition work for Michigan-based advocacy organization.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Detroit, MI; Hybrid
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Worker Ownership Cities Program Manager for the Democracy at Work Institute
💵 $76,500 - $86,500
✍🏾 Manage national program expanding employee ownership through local government support and policy advocacy.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 New York, NY; Remote
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Operations and Program Support Manager for Southeast Sustainability Directors Network
💵 $70,000 - $75,000
✍🏾 Lead operations and program support for a network advancing sustainability and resilience in southeastern communities.
📅 Feb 23, 2026📍 AL, AR, FL, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, or D.C.; Remote
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Loan Officer (Community-Owned Renewable Energy Projects) for People’s Solar Energy Fund
💵 $82,500-$90,000
✍🏾 Support community-owned solar financing through loan underwriting and member engagement in frontline communities.
📅 Feb 28 📍 United States; Remote
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📝 RFP & Contracting 15
RFP: Consultant for Chicago-Based Solidarity Economy Assessment by Black Liberation x Solidarity Economy (BLxSE)
💲 Up to $40,000
✍🏾 6-month consulting engagement to assess Chicago's Black movement and solidarity economy ecosystem and inform organizational formation strategy
📅 Mar 1, 2026 📍 Chicago, IL
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RFQ: Real Estate Financing Design Consultant by The Builder Coalition
💲 Up to $25,000
✍🏾 Real estate finance consultant to advise institutions on capital products for emerging developers
📅 Mar 2, 2026 📍 Massachusetts
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RFQ: Real Estate Technical Experts
💲 Not disclosed
✍🏾 Video production services for 1.5-day Mississippi Delta event with B-roll, interviews, and optional recap video
📅 Mar 2, 2026 📍 Massachusetts
SOMETIMES YOU NEED A LIL EXTRA
⚜️ Lagniappe
The Take: Never normalize this foolishness and the risk this poses to people who’ve born the brunt of fossil fuel infrastructure. Don’t let the “natural gas” framing make it seem benign. Would the wealthy want to live near this infrastructure?
The Take: After its weakest quarterly financial earnings since 2021, Shell is attempting to. back out of the investments and the job creation commitments it has made in PA after selling off much of the $1.65 BILLION it got from the state! Imagine if that had been invested locally into alternatives?
“This facility now faces all the hallmarks of a stranded asset,”
- Anne Keller, Ohio River Valley Institute
SOME GOOD ENERGY FOR Y’ALL
⚡️ Recharge
The brilliant folks at the Climate Justice Alliance have recently made available online their film, Grasping at the Roots, which is billed as a “Love Letter to the Black Environmental Justice” community. It shows that we fight because we love us and our communities and that we deserve a transition that is just.
For those of us from the frontlines, for those in solidarity with us, for those who want to ensure that the transition of our economy away from extraction is into a regenerative one where we all have sustainable, prosperous futures — Common River is for you.
Thank you for being here.
In solidarity,
Trace