our global garden of joy Hi 👋 I’m Jasmine, founder of The Bloom. We have a phenomenal selection of social impact resources this week for you to bloom & forward to your friends!
Welcome bloomers! Here's a summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱Global climate fiction short story contest – win up to USD 3,000 🌱Q&A with the CEO of Africa Matters Initiative 🌱20+ leadership books written by women and non-binary leaders with love & light, Jasmine Did a friend forward you this email? Sign upto get your own copy of The Bloom to your inbox with top social impact jobs, uplifting stories, and global resources.
fresh soil
Yoga of the mind: "I used to think that my mind was too busy to find stillness. Meditation is often seen as what happens once the chaotic thoughts have settled. But it’s actually the whole process. It’s the trembling, the shaking, the thinking about a million different things."→ Podcast
10 day climate comms e-mail course for the creative industries: The course helps you learn the basics of climate communication, the psychology behind it, and motivates and inspires you with benchmark examples and collaboration possibilities. → Course
water your soul
"When the name Abya Yala is used, this is a way of confronting the name Latin America, which was given by the invader."
Another week of meaningful and intimate activities are coming up in the membership community this week, here's a few we love....🌱 🤎Q&A with the CEO of Africa Matters Initiative, a youth-led organization dedicated to empowering and upskilling African youth. Reanne has 10+ years of experience in nonprofit program management and instructional design across 22 countries in Africa and other parts of the Global South, and specializes in designing highly effective learning materials aimed at enhancing knowledge retention among young people.
🌻Cristina is recruiting for a fully funded fellowship for entrepreneurial women in Europe for up to €7,000 each! The fellowship is designed to take your business to the next level through the latest design and management methodologies, high-level alliances, and expert mentoring. She'll share insider tips for bloomers on the application.
💰FUNDS Abortion Justice Fellowship: an exploratory, collective learning, exploration, and co-creation process that aims to gather 10 fellows working at the forefront of abortion justice as it relates to body, territory, ownership, and autonomy. To support their participation and to honor their work and contributions, inroads fellows will receive an honorarium of 1000 USD.
Global climate fiction short story contest! The winning writer will be awarded $3,000, with the second- and third-place winners receiving $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. An additional nine finalists will each receive $300. Fully funded UX scholarship to equip you with the skills to kickstart a career in UX design. Women Photographers have opened up their grants for women and non-binary photographers.Funding may be used to cover the hard costs of reporting, photographers’ creative fees, and any other expenses that support the production of new work.
Paid opportunity for Black artists in any art medium of choice as long as it can be displayed online! 12 week learning program to support Black women founders in the beauty industry develop their business's, meet other founders and receive a 10k grant. Funders, resource mobilizers, and beyond: support the Racial Equity Index, a global accountability tool that measures racial equity (and inequity) within and across the Global Development sector. Next Generation Foresight Fellowship: If you're using futures and foresight methods to make the world a better place + want to be part of a global network of young foresight practitioners with a shared purpose + need support to amplify your positive impact in the world.
fertilize confidence
Submit your question for our phenomenal social impact coach, or join a LIVE coach session on Tuesdays 12pm EST 💜
COMMUNITY: QUESTION
Am I being selfish?
I believe that my motivation for making an impact on the world is a way to not feel guilty about my privileged position in this world. The other reason is that I feel it will be a much more meaningful pursuit for me than just doing work for money. The third reason is that I want to see myself as someone who does good and when people ask me what I do for work, feel good about sharing my contribution. Am I being selfish?
COACH: ANSWER
Yes, these are all selfish reasons to go into the social impact space. But that is nothing to be ashamed of. We are all motivated by something. If these motivations feel selfish to you, what do you think you should be motivated by? Motivation is both intrinsic and extrinsic and it seems that your scale is tilted towards intrinsic motivators. Here are some additional questions to reflect on to better understand your intrinsic motivators to pursue a career in social impact: Are you motivated by the challenge? Do you enjoy contributing and feeling competent at what you do? Are you curious about what it will take to solve this problem? Does it give you some feelings of control to solve a social challenge? Do you enjoy taking your skills to the field and making a real impact? Meanwhile, other people choose to pursue a career that is motivated by money (an extrinsic motivator), and then make an impact in the world by contributing large donations. How do you feel towards these people? If you carry any judgement towards them, then I'd encourage you to explore that further. Because that is where the danger is. It is dangerous to feel like you are making a sacrifice by pursuing this work. As argued in the classic debate between Joey and Phoebe, there is no selfless good deed. The fact is, we all get to make a choice about our careers. Pursuing a career in social impact is your choice. And it should be a selfish choice, because otherwise you'll burnout quickly.
branch out
💰FUNDS Abortion Justice Fellowship: an exploratory, collective learning, exploration, and co-creation process that aims to gather 10 fellows working at the forefront of abortion justice as it relates to body, territory, ownership, and autonomy. To support their participation and to honor their work and contributions, inroads fellows will receive an honorarium of 1000 USD.
Global climate fiction short story contest! The winning writer will be awarded $3,000, with the second- and third-place winners receiving $2,000 and $1,000, respectively. An additional nine finalists will each receive $300. Fully funded UX scholarship to equip you with the skills to kickstart a career in UX design. Women Photographers have opened up their grants for women and non-binary photographers. Funding may be used to cover the hard costs of reporting, photographers’ creative fees, and any other expenses that support the production of new work.
Paid opportunity for Black artists in any art medium of choice as long as it can be displayed online! 12 week learning program to support Black women founders in the beauty industry develop their business's, meet other founders and receive a 10k grant. Funders, resource mobilizers, and beyond: support the Racial Equity Index, a global accountability tool that measures racial equity (and inequity) within and across the Global Development sector. Next Generation Foresight Fellowship: If you're using futures and foresight methods to make the world a better place + want to be part of a global network of young foresight practitioners with a shared purpose + need support to amplify your positive impact in the world.
Our meme of the week: 📰 News & updates Google March 2024 core update is done: It actually finished on April 19th but Google didn't tell anyone until one week later. Google Publisher Center to
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