VIBES: WE TAKING SWINGS (metaphorically)THIS YEAR Y’ALL 🥊
And we’re back! Excited for Resource Radar to be landing back into your inboxes to support y’all through 2026. We’ve redesigned some things for ease of engagement + focusing on being bigger, braver this year. 😤
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💰 Funding Opps 10+
Scaling Pathways to Homeownership Open Call by Lever for Change
💰 $200,000
✍🏾 Initiative to identify and support bold solutions expanding access to affordable homeownership nationwide
📅 Jan 29, 2026 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply Now
Trust in Practice Awards by Alliance for Social Trust
💰 $100,000
✍🏾 Awards supporting nonprofit collaborations building trust across communities
📅 Jan 31, 2026 📍 United States
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Digital Equity Accelerator by the HP Foundation
💰 $100,000
✍🏾 Six-month accelerator providing funding and HP technology to organizations advancing digital equity for future workers in the U.S.
📅 Feb 6, 2026 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply Now
African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund by the National Trust for Historic Places
💰 $50,000-$150,000
✍🏾 Grants for historic preservation projects at African American cultural heritage sites.
📅 Feb 6, 2026 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply Now
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
💪🏾 Apply Now
💼 Jobs & Fellowships 20+
Associate Director, Private Credit for Apis & Heritage
💵 $175,000 - $200,000
✍🏾 Leading credit underwriting for converting lower middle market firms to employee ownership
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Washington, D.C.; Hybrid
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Senior Philanthropy Officer, Southeast Region for American Farmland Trust
💵 $115,000 - $125,000
✍🏾 Manage Southeast donor portfolio to secure major gifts for farmland conservation and sustainable agriculture.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Southeast United States; Remote
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Senior Product Manager for Greenplaces
💵 $120,000 - $140,000
✍🏾 Lead product execution and delivery for sustainability software helping businesses track carbon emissions.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Raleigh, NC or New York, NY; Remote
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Senior Loan Officer for Neighborworks Capital
💵 $130,000 - $150,000
✍🏾 Lead lending relationships and loan underwriting for affordable housing developers across the NeighborWorks network.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 Silver Spring, MD; Remote
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Deputy Policy Director for Climate Cabinet
💵 $130,221-$150,782
✍🏾 Senior manager role supporting state-level climate policy work through team leadership and systems building.
📅 Jan 30, 2026 📍 United States; Remote
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📝 RFP & Contracting 10+
Call for Applicants: Grant Writer/Development Contractor by Upstart Co-Lab
💲 $25,000
✍🏾 Contractor position for grant writing, donor relations, and event management at creative economy impact investing organization.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 United States
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Call for Applicants: Lean Co-op Incubator Program Start.coop and Shared Capital Cooperative
💲 N/A
✍🏾 8-week incubator program for early-stage cooperative entrepreneurs using the Lean Co-op approach.
📅 Jan 21, 2026 📍 United States
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RFP: Planning Consultant for EGA's 40th Anniversary by Environmental Grantmakers Association
💲 Not disclosed
✍🏾 Strategic planning consultant needed for environmental philanthropy association's 40th anniversary capital campaign and celebration.
📅 Feb 9, 2026 📍 United States
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SOMETIMES YOU NEED A LIL EXTRA
⚜️ Lagniappe
Happy MLK Day!
— Ryan Ken (@ryankenacts.bsky.social) 2026-01-19T16:16:23.728Z
Opposition to AI-driven data center build out is increasing. Turns out that people don’t want increased fossil fuel pollution or lose freshwater access or have higher electricity bills for benefit of AI slop. However, as community opposition is building, these projects, backed by the deep pockets of Big Tech AND Big Oil & Gas and emboldened by Trump’s environmental rollbacks are targeting predominantly Black communities. Four million Americans live near data centers, most of them are…well you take a guess.
The Take: Data center build out is following the fossil fuel industry’s playbook: skirting the rules, locating near already pollution burdened communities, and attempting to steamroll those they deem sacrificial. The people are calling 🐂 💩
“All too often, these polluting industries and questionable zoning decisions land in Black and brown communities, places that are least empowered and have already carried the burden of past pollution”
2025 was a record year for data center opposition with reporting that at least 99 projects are being opposed with the trends indicating that 40% of opposed projects are eventually cancelled.
Table from Heatmap News
The Take: Opposition to data center expansion will continue but expect more forceful alliances from those in economic development with these hyperscale data centers. They’ll frame it as a region joining the AI revolution with good paying jobs: mind you, they’re full of it (data centers have little-to-no permanent jobs prospects) and incentivized to chase flashy headlines.
“The overwhelming majority of cancellations came in states that President Trump won in the 2024 election — and often in the very suburban and exurban areas that fueled his victory. Trump won Oldham County, Kentucky, by more than 20 points in 2024. That didn’t help an effort to build a new 600-megawatt AI data center there last year. The project was dropped in July by its developer Western Hospitality Partners, who had once described it as the state’s largest economic development project.”
SOME GOOD ENERGY FOR Y’ALL
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Memes aside, the legacy of Dr. King has been transformative for our nation and for me personally. As a person of faith committed to the sacred dignity inherent in each human being, Dr. King has been an anchor. This is what I mean by taking swings: living boldly in alignment with our values and vision for the world we want.
While we are living in unprecedented times, I’m reminded of the wisdom, the boldness, and the example of our ancestors as a guide.
Also, checkout out this great analysis of Dr. King’s “Three Great Evils of Society” by AC
“Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation. And I want to thank God, once more, for allowing me to be here with you.”
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