VIBES: Its not alright, but we gon be 🔥🐶🏠🔥
There’s no getting around or sugarcoating around the particularly dystopian feeling in the US: masked 🧊 rounding up and killing folks, increased lawlessness from fossil fuel companies, and an economy that works for the wealthy elite. Don’t gaslight yourself, the world is indeed on fire. I’m confident in our future, not because of our so-called leaders, but because we got us.
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💰 Funding Opps 20
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
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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
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Transit Narrative Change Lab by TransitCenter and Climate and Community Institute
💰 $50,000
✍🏾 18-month cohort program providing grants and training for transit communications leaders to become narrative change practitioners
📅 Feb 9, 2026 📍 United States
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Co-op Developer Scholarships by the CDF (Cooperative Development Foundation)
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✍🏾 Scholarships for cooperative developers in rural communities to access professional development opportunities.
📅 Feb 27, 2026 📍 United States (rural communities)
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2026 Grants Competition by the Climate Smart Communities Initiative
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✍🏾 Grants for community-based climate resilience projects in frontline US communities
📅 Mar 12, 2026 📍 United States
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💼 Jobs & Fellowships 50+
Development & Strategic Partnerships Manager for Anthropocene Alliance
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✍🏾 Lead fundraising and strategic partnerships for the nation's largest coalition of frontline climate communities.
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Sr. Manager, Innovation Lab for Ownership Capital Lab
💵 $90,000–$105,000
✍🏾 Lead investment product development and market validation for employee ownership financing vehicles in a remote, entrepreneurial environment.
📅 Feb 5, 2026 📍 United States; Remote
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Senior Product Manager, Certifications for B Lab
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✍🏾 Lead product strategy and delivery for B Corp Certification, driving meaningful impact at scale.
📅 Feb 6, 2026 📍 Philadelphia, PA; Remote
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People Operations Consultant (1099) for Kinetic Communities Consulting
💵 $31–$40/hour
✍🏾 Support HR operations for mission-driven energy equity organization with potential to convert to full-time role.
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Assistant Director, Research for Partners for Public Good
💵 $135,000
✍🏾 Lead research function to produce policy-relevant insights on government operations and public sector implementation.
📅 Feb 26, 2026 📍 United States; Remote
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📝 RFP & Contracting 10+
RFP: Environmental & Climate Justice Pilot by Azolla Ventures
💲 $30,000
✍🏾 Design and operate an environmental and climate justice pilot for climate tech portfolio companies
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RFP: Planning Consultant for EGA's 40th Anniversary by Environmental Grantmakers Association
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✍🏾 Strategic planning consultant needed for environmental philanthropy association's 40th anniversary capital campaign and celebration.
📅 Feb 9, 2026 📍 United States
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RFP: Strategic Planning Consultant by TechEquity
💲 $40,000 - $60,000
✍🏾 Strategic planning consultant to develop multi-year plan for tech accountability and economic equity advocacy organization
📅 Feb 16, 2026 📍 California
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SOMETIMES YOU NEED A LIL EXTRA
⚜️ Lagniappe
The Take: Environmental justice, state violence, economic inequality, these polycrises are all interconnected. They want us overwhelmed and to disengage, as Emily writes, “F*ck them and f*ck that”.
“Climate change is state violence, too
When I get into these funks, it’s like I start believing that climate change is something separate from state violence—and it’s not.
The climate chaos we’re experiencing now, and what we will continue to experience, is a direct, conscious choice by the state to allow certain people to die. It kills through heatwaves, asthma, hunger, and displacement instead of bullets and batons, but the logic behind both is identical: certain people, mostly brown, can be sacrificed.
I always need to remind myself that these are not two separate emergencies competing for attention, but one story unfolding on different timelines. That helps reignite the fire to continue.”
The Domestic Global South and The Need for Climate and Environmental Internationalism by Anthony Karefa Rogers-Wright for Black Agenda Report
The Take: While the U.S. is in disarray, don’t forget the global linkages to what we’re experiencing, from the Gulf Coast to the Middle East to South America, the path forward to a more just, equitable world is through centering principles, people, and the movements at the center of environmental justice.
SOME GOOD ENERGY FOR Y’ALL
⚡️ Recharge
“The more time you spend doing something, whatever is possible for you to do in the world, the less exhausted you are by the onslaught of information that really wins when it can convince you that the only thing you can do is watch what is happening to you.” 🔥 from @tressiemcphd.bsky.social
— Tedra Osell (@tedos.bsky.social) 2026-01-27T03:02:01.997Z
Rest is essential (I believe in it and Lord knows I need it)! However, there is a fine line between restful retreat and a disengagement that comes from a learned helplessness. You have agency as an individual. Even more as a collective. Tressie McMillan Cottom’s words remind us that passivity isn’t an antidote; action is.
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