with light

Welcome bloomers! Here's a summary of the newsletter this week:
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​🌱 Feminist encyclopedia platform ​
​🌱 Career interview with CSR leader from Bahamas​
🌱 Online event on the green jobs landscape
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with love & light,
​Jasmine
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fresh soil

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water your soul

🌵Cactus community.
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💍 Less marriage.
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🐳 Pure wonder.
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❌ Nothing's perfect.

community garden

Where does your flame for social impact come from?
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I would say my flame comes from a couple of different places:
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1) My groundings – being from the Bahamas, a small island nation that's really driven and built by social capital. Social capital is extremely important in an island sense: knowing how to build networks, how to engage, how to be a good citizen. I think all those pieces were very ingrained and instilled in me pretty early on.
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2) My own drive and inquisitive nature. I'm someone who calls myself, I'm a hustler. I like to go out there. I like to try new things, I like to solve problems, but I also love to connect with people.
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3) Knowing there is a way that we can solve some of these complex issues if we understand the problem, if we work together and we use a whole lot of diplomacy and tact to get it done.

You're clearly one of these leaders that's so good at bringing people to the table. And I wonder, how have you gotten good at doing that?

Two things. One, my career started at the World Bank, where my role as a social development specialist was ensuring that if we did a big infrastructure project, or we were going to build a school, or we were going to give a new 300 million development loan, that it was really grounded in what people and the people’s voice. And so from early on in my career, the ability to be a smart, flexible, practical communicator was extremely important, and it continues to be important today. And so some of the tips or tools I always use is have a sense of who’s on the other side of the table. Do the research. Really get a sense of who’s on the other side. What do they care about? What are they connected to?

The second is it’s really important to be an active listener, not just listen and be like, Okay, that sounds good. But what are they actually saying? And if you’re not sure, I like to use this tool called the five whys. Just keep going deeper and deeper and deeper until you really get an answer to what you’re asking.

And then I think the third thing is meeting people where they’re at. I’ve traveled everywhere just to get a sense of who people are what their lived experiences are so that I then can either meet them where they’re at or find people that either look like them or look like them, but have some similar experiences, have similar I think similar factors that are maybe impacting or impeding where they’re going in life. So I think those three things are really important. Asking good questions, listening actively. The second is ensuring to build trust, meeting people, meeting communities, meeting partners, meeting clients where they’re at, and then ensure that if you’re coming here, if you’re presenting a solution to really understand the problem.

Kevval's full interview is now available in the resource library of our membership platform 🎉

branch out

Join Grist and Creatives for Climate on 30th August for a free online event to discuss the green jobs landscape and how professionals can creatively approach turning their job into a climate career.
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🦋 FELLOWSHIPS & MORE
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​Fellowship for UK Black journalists: entry-level or early-career Black journalists. You do not need a degree or professional training in journalism but should have some complementary experience in research, writing and/or community engagement.​
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​Activist Collaboration & Care Fund: for USA organizations and networks of, by, and for trans and cis women and girls of color and nonbinary people of color – grants will range from USD 15,000 to 25,000.
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​Amahoro Fellowship: targets individuals with experience as Forcibly Displaced for a 12-month program to cultivate and disseminate ideas on a world stage, expand networks, and seize numerous professional opportunities.
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​Submissions on indigenous sovereignty: Seeking co-authors for chapter on narrative power built through movements like Land Back and Standing Rock for a forthcoming anthology.
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​Conservation Reporting Fellowship: for young and aspiring environmental journalists to cover biodiversity hotspots.
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​Atlantic Fellowship: for residents of Australia, New Zealand or any Pacific Island Nation to develop a social change project that drives Indigenous social equity.

​World Food Program Innovation Challenge: USD 100,000 equity-free funding for innovations that offer relief, foster resilience and end hunger.

spicy seeds

🌶️ The future.​
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​🌶️ Pure laughter.
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🌶️ Common question.

grow new roots

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​🔎 IMPACT EMPLOYER SPOTLIGHT​
​Football Beyond Borders works with young people from areas of socio-economic disadvantage who are passionate about football but disengaged at school, to help them finish school with the skills and grades to make a successful transition into adulthood. We do this by providing long-term, intensive support, built around relationships and young people’s passions, in the classroom and beyond.​
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​ASIA + OCEANIA
​Coordinator for youth leadership on violence-free spaces – YP Foundation
Coordinator for masculinities – YP Foundation ​
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AFRICA + MENA
​Creative storytelling & comms officer (West Africa) – CHEVS ​
​Solidarity & care program officer – African Women's Development Fund​
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Program manager – The Freedom Fund​
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Consultant – The Freedom Fund​
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​LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN
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Regional feminist movement builders – Just Associates
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​Climate & indigenous affairs specialist – Wildlife Works Brazil​
​Consultancy on children's rights – The Freedom Fund​
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Program coordinator – Witness for Peace​
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​NORTH AMERICA
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Part-time assistant – The Canadian Art Therapy Association​
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Executive director – USD 150,000 - 170,000 – WRAP​
​Multiple jobs + internships – Climate Reality Project​
Organizing director – Queer Crescent
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​EUROPE
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x2 project officers – Platform for Undocumented Migrants​
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Multiple roles – Climate Vanguard​
Network manager – The Girls Network
Influence ops reporter – GBP – 30,000-32,000 – The Bureau of Investigative Journalism ​
Multiple roles – Football Beyond Borders​
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​REMOTE​
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​Freelance facilitators - Glitch​
​School coordinator – Women in Informal Employment​
Call for artist/creator for graphic image – Share-Net International​
Web developer – The Freedom Fund​
Part-time consultancy – Human Rights Funders Network​
Consultant for review of gender equality policy – SOS Children’s Villages​
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