VIBES: WE BUILD, TOGETHER
Thinking about how tempting it is to put your head down and grind things out. In my experience, the moments that are the most generative, most awe inspiring, where we go the furthest are done in collaboration. May we lock-in, together.
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💰 Funding Opps 15+
Solar Moonshot Program by Hammond Climate Solutions Foundation
💰 $25,000
✍🏾 Grants for nonprofits to switch to solar energy.
📅 Apply ASAP 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply NowEarly Investment Spring 2026 Grant by The New York Women's Foundation
💰 $80,000
✍🏾 One-year grants for NYC grassroots organizations advancing gender, racial, and economic justice for women and gender-expansive people.
📅 Mar 23, 2026 📍 New York City, NY
💪🏾 Apply NowInternational Landing Pad Network (Built Environment Cohort) by The Clean Fight
💰 $50,000 - $250,000
✍🏾 Program for international climate companies to scale built environment solutions in NYC.
📅 Mar 23, 2026 📍 New York City, NY
💪🏾 Apply NowMobile Hometown Grant Program by T-Mobile and Main Street America
💰 $50,000
✍🏾 Grants for small towns to fund placemaking and community development projects.
📅 Mar 31, 2026 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply NowFunding for Strategic Collaboration in the Impact Investing Sector by Sorenson Impact Institute
💰 $100,000 - $400,000
✍🏾 Grants for nonprofit organizations in impact investing pursuing strategic mergers and collaborations.
📅 Jun 11, 2026 📍 United States
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💼 Jobs & Fellowships 100+
Operations Manager for SEEC Institute
💵 $55,000 - $75,000
✍🏾 Operations Manager to build operational systems and manage events for climate-focused nonprofit bridging Congress and environmental advocates.
📅 Mar 20, 2026 📍 Washington, DC; Remote
💪🏾 Apply NowEcosystem Director for Center for Community Wealth
💵 $70,000 - $72,000
✍🏾 Lead ecosystem coordination and strategy to support immigrant and BIPOC entrepreneurs in Denver Metro Area.
📅 Mar 30, 2026 📍 Denver, CO; Hybrid
💪🏾 Apply NowChief of Staff for PowerLines
💵 $100,000 - $150,000
✍🏾 Chief of Staff to support leadership at nonprofit modernizing utility regulation to lower bills and grow the economy.
📅 Mar 31, 2026 📍 Washington, DC; Hybrid
💪🏾 Apply NowManaging Director for Building Electrification Institute (BEI)
💵 $150,000 - $165,000
✍🏾 Lead BEI's research team and city policy projects while overseeing business development and organizational strategy.
📅 Apr 3, 2026 📍 Remote, United States; Remote
💪🏾 Apply NowSenior Director of Programs & Impact for One Earth
💵 $125,000 - $150,000
✍🏾 Lead program strategy and impact at One Earth to accelerate science-based climate and biodiversity solutions globally.
📅 Apr 10, 2026 📍 Remote, US; Remote
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📝 RFP & Contracting 20+
RFP: Workshop Facilitator and Fundraising Coach for Propeller Impact Accelerator
💲 $500 per roundtable, $150 per coaching session
✍🏾 Facilitators and coaches needed for six-month nonprofit fundraising capacity-building program.
📅 Mar 29, 2026 📍 Greater New Orleans
💪🏾 Apply NowCall for Proposals: Shared Media Services Provider Pool for Start.coop & Defector Media
💲 Not disclosed
✍🏾 Seeking collective of fractional business service providers for independent worker-owned media organizations.
📅 Apr 8, 2026 📍 United States
💪🏾 Apply NowRFP: Visual Designer for Rural Climate Communications for Rural Climate Partnership
💲 $30,000
✍🏾 Rural-based visual designer needed for climate communications across print, digital, and presentation formats.
📅 Apr 10, 2026 📍 Rural United States
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SOMETIMES YOU NEED A LIL EXTRA
⚜️ Lagniappe
Louisiana bets big on ‘blue ammonia.’ Communities along Cancer Alley brace for the cost by Ames Alexander for Floodlight
The Take: When the climate crisis is abstracted to only a global problem and only a problem of carbon emissions, it obfuscates the real, localized impact of the existing infrastructure and the dependency on techno-solutions. To add insult to injury, these projects are oft championed by economic developers and the broader climate tech industry by slapping a more positive-sounding label on it - “St. Charles Clean Fuels, Blue Hydrogen, etc”. Don’t believe the hype, look to the leaders on the frontlines and the fencelines.
When the Boom Exits | Why Data Center Deals Need More Than Promises by Jorge Luis Fontanez
The Take: This piece argues that CBAs are a solid but insufficient start for managing the data center buildout. In PA, one of the data center hubs (as laid out by Governor’s economic development strategy), 68% of residents don’t want them anywhere near where they live! Jorge calls and demonstrates new frameworks that call for the creation of new intermediaries to address this dynamic with data centers so communities aren’t left holding the bag
“I’m not against progress,” Gaignard said. “We are against development that poisons and displaces and disregards human life.”
SOME GOOD ENERGY FOR Y’ALL
⚡️ Recharge
What if communities that have borne the brunt of industrial pollution or its counter rampant de-industiralization and the hallowing of its economic core could create their own self-sustaining economic engine rooted in sustainability and community wealth?
In rural Western North Carolina, the Industrial Commons is showing that such a model is possible combinidng solidarity economies, small business development, and circularity to grow place-based wealth. The model is a constant reminder of what’s possible.
Check them out! —> https://www.theindustrialcommons.org/
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