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Welcome bloomers! Here's a summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱 World gender customs Google map 🌱 The social impact story behind the world's best restaurant 🌱 9-week course to redefine relationships in the digital age with love & light, Jasmine Did a friend forward you this email? Sign up to get your own copy of The Bloom to your inbox with top social impact jobs, uplifting stories, and global resources. Partner with us! We're looking forimpact organizations to feature in The Bloom to bring even more connections, resources, and opportunities to our global community. Career growth & community: Joinour global membership platform for matchmaking with social impact professionals, global networking events, and a growing library of career resources and interviews published in The Bloom over 2 years!
fresh soil
Map of world gender customs: This ongoing google maplocates different cultural conceptions of gender and sexual diversity throughout history, such as the güevedoces in Dominican Republic and the fa'afafine in Samoa.→ platform
Guide to incorporate a climate lens in your job. 6 courses to increase your climate knowledge.
🦋 Fellowships
Amnesty international justice in Africa fellowship: Stipend of USD 36,774 to young African professionals (early to mid-career practitioners and scholars) based in Africa to work on international justice issues and mechanisms. African young women leaders fellowship: UNDP is looking for up to 40 talented young African women to join the third cohort of this 12-month fellowship program.
💸 Funds
Youth solutions micro-grant: Up to $2000 in seed funding for youth solutions to housing and urban challenges in the Asia-Pacific region. Social shifters global innovation challenge: Supercharging the next generation of young leaders, innovators and entrepreneurs (18-30 years) to tackle the social or environmental issues that matter to them most for USD 10,000 cash prizes. Innovations for young adolescent career development: The grant is open to innovators across the United States, Round Three of the Catalyze Challenge aims to reimagine the connections between K-12 education, higher education, and careers for young people — helping them to build their identities, self-efficacy, and career readiness. Greentech Europe 2023: An accelerator program supporting women-led greentech innovation in Europe for USD 125,000.
pollination partner
Friends, it's with glowing smiles in our hearts that we introduce to you one of The Bloom's newest partners: Ijeruka Media, a Pan-African digital learning community to revolutionise education 📚
Immerse yourself in the power of Ijeruka's community through their upcoming course: Digital Kinship: Redefining Relationality in the Digital Age. It's an immersive, 9 week interdisciplinary course to explore our evolving relationships in a world shaped by digital technology, delving into artificial intelligence, and human connection. Participants will emerge from the course equipped with the knowledge and tools to navigate, influence, and co-create a digital landscape and shared future grounded in collective wellbeing, agency, and indigenous wisdoms. Meet some of the 11 trailblazing thought leaders rooted in Afro-diasporic and Global South perspectives leading the course 🔥🔥
Neema Iyer (she/her)
Neema is the founder and former ED of Pollicy, a pioneering civic technology working at the intersection of data, design and technology to aid governments in harnessing data to create better societies. After receiving a pivotal grant from the Association for Progressive Communication, Neema steered Pollicy towards a Feminist Internet ethos, ensuring technology is inclusive, fair, and joyful. Neema's dedication to digital equality earned her a Practitioner's Fellowship from Stanford's Digital Civil Society Lab and the 2021 Digital Equality Award by Coalition for Digital Equality (CODE). She was also recognized in the 2021 Quartz Africa Innovators list and awarded the Senior Fellowship in Trustworthy AI by Mozilla Foundation in 2022.
Annika Hansteen-Izora (she/they)
Annika is a multidisciplinary designer whose work is primarily rooted in a desire to explore futures rooted in collectivity, play, design, and care-oriented technology. You can find them reimagining the future of social media and queer community as Lead Product Designer at Lex and Somewhere Good. They are the author of Tenderness: A Black Queer Meditation on Softness and Rage, They’ve been featured inIt’s Nice That, AIGA Eye on Design, Vogue, New Public, Bustle, and others. As of late, Annika has been exploring the topics of communal dreaming, digital gardens, creative ecosystems, queering friendship, communal care, reimagining social media, and tenderness as a praxis.
Berhan Taye (she/her)
Berhan Taye investigates the relationship between technology, society, and social justice. She is currently a Practitioner Fellow at the Digital Civil Society Lab, Stanford University and a Research Manager at One Project. Previously, Berhan was the Africa Policy Manager at Access Now and led the #KeepItOn campaign, a global campaign that fights against internet shutdown with a coalition of more than 220 member organizations worldwide. Berhan has held numerous research and fellowship roles with Open Technology Institute(OTI), Research Action Design (RAD), Mozilla Foundation, Design Justice Network, and others. Berhan currently serves on the advisory network of the Freedom Online Coalition, the advisory board of the Open Tech Fund (OTF), Access Now, and the steering committee of Invest in Open Infrastructure (IOI) initiative. If you'd love to learn more about the Digital Kinship course directly from the Ijeruka's creator, Anwulika, you can meet her at The Bloom's upcoming social impact networking event online August 17. Email us at team@readtobloom.com for info to join 💌
grow new roots
🔎 SOCIAL IMPACT EMPLOYER SPOTLIGHT 2X Global is a a leading industry body for gender-lens investing that has mobilized over USD 16.3 Billion in gender investments around the world in 2 years. The Bloom sat down with their CEO, Jessica, to hear more about a globally remote Program Manager role they're hiring for!
How did you get to where you are today in your career?
When I was in high school, I realized what matters most is to believe in myself because there’s a good chance no one else would. I think what got me where I am today is the right mindset – to do the right things for the right reasons, and staying true to yourself and the change you want to see in the world. Lessons you’re taking away from the first few years of your work experience, and applying to the next chapters of your career.
In my early career years, I was promoted based on the potential the company’s leaders saw in me and got the chance to prove myself by working hard and learning quickly. Mid-career the dynamic flipped and I encountered barriers and gender bias which made it very hard to progress no matter how great the performance or results. It was an important lesson about how culture trumps everything. That’s why my number one priority is building an amazing culture at 2X Global. Everything else will follow. Your relationship to “social impact”: has it evolved since you began your career?
When I started my career, I was unapologetic about the greatest possible social impact ambitions. It wasn’t popular. In my first job interviews, I was told that it was absurd to think about the nexus between financial inclusion and tackling gender-based violence, or advocating for a link between women entrepreneurs and climate action. Fortunately a lot has changed since then and it’s exciting to see the momentum around gender finance and the nexus to other impact goals like climate, JEDI and GBVH. I think my relationship to social impact is the same, but the world around me has changed significantly which makes it a lot more fun to work in this space.
Let’s say you were reading a job application from someone hoping to join your team: what would stand out, and attract you to working with them?
I love it when people bring a diverse perspective, their own style and personality. For us at 2X Global a passion to work in a truly global team is key – our team members are spread all over the planet, from Barbados to Nairobi to Singapore. Cultural fit and values alignment are also important. And finally, for this role in particular, we’re looking for someone who is really passionate about the 2X Criteria, global standard setting trends and has an affinity for metrics and performance/impact measurement. Email team@readtobloom.com to feature your organization and job openings to 35,000 diverse and talented bloomers around the world. AFRICA + MENA Creatives – Women Cannot Wait 🇺🇬 Needs assessment of gender diverse youth – Trans Youth Initiative-Uganda 🇰🇪 Research assistant – KSH 5,000 – Africa's Voices 🇷🇼 Marketing coordinator – YLabs 🇵🇰 Data analysis intern – UpTrade LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN 🇨🇴 Research analyst – Innovations for Poverty Action 🇧🇷 Learning & impact analyst – Luminate 🇨🇱 Grants and Partnerships Manager for Latin America and the Caribbean – International Fund for Public Interest Media EUROPE 🇳🇱 Comms associate – Climate Strategies 🇺🇦 Admin & campaign assistant for green reconstruction of Ukraine – Greenpeace 🇩🇪 Student assistant in comms – NewClimate Institute 🇬🇧 Digital comms officer – Green Alliance REMOTE 🌍 Program manager – 2X Global Comms associate part-time – Circle of Blue Digital comms officer – Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Goals Executive director – Sex Workers’ Rights Advocacy Network Innovation specialist – WWF Conference manager – Human Rights Funders Network Vice president – Global Greengrants Fund Impact officer – Catalyst 2030 Operations officer – Together for Girls
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