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Welcome bloomers! Here's a summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱Intimate dive in Bloomer's co-leadership journey 🌱Global fund for climate-friendly content creators 🌱Meet a coach for activists and changemakers 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 community for matchmaking with social impact professionals, intros to employers, and global networking events.
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What if your unofficial role and field?
I am a macro social worker. I create free content to support current and aspiring macro social workers in overcoming structural, attitudinal, and financial barriers to accessing information about people, practices, resources, and spaces related to macro social work. Find it on LinkedIn using #MakeMacroMatter or my website.
As an anti-violence organizer, I have collectively changed campus sexual violence policies for 113,000+ Texas students and co-created the Campus Accountability Map & Tool (CAMT), a groundbreaking online resource tracking U.S. policies and statistics, which launched January 2023.
How did you get to where you are today in your career? As a bilingual / bicultural, first-generation graduate, my experiences in the academic, healthcare, nonprofit, and military sectors taught me how to work within systems that work against communities and their advocates; they also taught me how important it is to me to challenge and change or replace these systems. That’s why I decided to become a macro social worker: to make systems-level change on health and education, particularly on sexual and reproductive health, rights, and justice. I hold deep gratitude for the Southern (US) reproductive justice and anti-violence movements for growing and sustaining me as the social impact professional I am today and will be in the future.
What kind of support are you most excited to receive at this point in your career? I am excited to network with other Bloomers, particularly folks in reproductive justice and/or anti-violence movements, and especially in Germany. Any Bloomers doing this work in paid and/or remote roles? I’d love to learn more! I also invite Bloomers to engage and share the content I create so it can reach more folks who are current or aspiring macro-level social impact professionals. Your relationship to “social impact”: has it evolved since you began your career?
Absolutely. When I started my career, I was focused on secondary and tertiary prevention work. I now focus mostly on primary prevention work. This change grew out of my learning, unlearning, and relearning what it means to center consent and relationships in social impact work (e.g. anti-racist, anti-colonial, and abolitionist efforts).
Impact resource rapid fire questions! Podcasts? 🎤I’m Lost, So What? - For folks—especially multicultural, hyphenated-folks—who feel lost in their careers, identities, and/or lives and are looking for new perspectives to find their own answers.
🎤Struggle Care - Learn how to accomplish care tasks—and being kind to yourself—when you have functional barriers. Also check out her book and online resources. 🎤Doin’ the Work: Frontline Stories of Social Change - Interviews with social workers and those in related fields, educators, and activists about their work and personal stories of how they got into this work Social media projects? 📲@feminist midwife: Midwife. Queer. Pro-abortion. Writes about consent in healthcare, trauma-informed care, sex positivity, reproductive justice, and healthcare advocacy. Articles? 🗞️Why Macro [Social Work] Practice Matters
Meet Laura and inspiring social impact leaders in directly in The Bloom's global membership community! And stay tuned the incredible upcoming mentorship and networking events we're hosting in the community this month 🥰
Join our fresh launched coaching program in our community platform with multiple purpose-driven coaches 💜
Dani, coach for activists & changemakers
I am a coach supporting changemakers and activists to resource themselves so they can better resource others. I accompany folks in finding ways to practice liberation and justice that include them, their bodies, and their well-being, in the process. I’ve spent more than 10 years contributing to queer, trans, feminist, climate & social justice movements. I’ve been through different cycles of relating to my activism: from finding meaning and belonging, to feeling disillusioned and heartbroken, from the frontlines, to the backstage, from wanting to change the world to struggling to transform myself- and everything in between. I’m a human in exploration, a curious being with a love for silence, nature, and the unknown. A somatics/embodiment student. A queer, non binary person. I was born in post-revolution Romania in the 90s and currently live in Belgium.
Earth Alliance Creator Fund: Supports creators of all types with USD $2,000 to create climate-friendly content. Fund for Women Journalists: USD $230,000 in grants for women, non-binary and gender nonconforming journalists of all nationalities, who have at least one year of professional journalism experience. Applications are open on a rolling basis. UNICEF Venture Fund: USD $100,000 in equity-free capital to early stage, for-profit technology start-ups that can significantly improve the physical and mental health of children.
📚Fellowships & scholarships
DAAD Scholarships: Fully-funded opportunities for talented, self-motivated, and skilled master‘s or PhD students from all over the world to study and get trained at world-class educational institutes in Germany. Stanford University Center for International Security and Cooperation Fellowship Program: One-year program for scholars and professionals to explore complex international problems and innovative solutions in a collegial and collaborative environment, and engage in research and writing. Stimson Center South Asia Program’s Visiting Fellowship: One-year fellowship program in the U.S. designed for outstanding analysts, scholars, students, and researchers in India and Pakistan who are dedicated to the study of strategic and security issues in the subcontinent.
pollination partner
Bloomers, meet Rosa and Helen, colleagues for 3 years at Trase, a data-driven transparency initiative that revolutionizes our understanding of the international trade and financing of agricultural commodities that drive tropical deforestation.
When Trase’s Director announced that he would be going on extended leave in 2023, stepping away from Trase for the first time since he co-founded it in 2015, Helen (Trase’s Deputy Director) and Rosa (Trase’s Director of Operations) made the decision to co-lead Trase in the interim four months. It's their joy to share with The Bloom community an intimate dive into their feminist co-leadership inspired journey, take a look 💚 When we came into this relationship, we were…
Interested in learning more about leadership styles through practice.
Looking for ways to continue living and exemplifying diversity, equity and inclusion in Trase’s approach to all our work.
Recognizing our pre-existing separation of responsibilities within Trase: technical and more external (Helen) and operational and more internal (Rosa)
Drawing heavily on the Feminist Co-leadership Mosaic project, both in the preparation for this experience (Developing an accountability framework, and creation of a co-leadership statement) and to guide our reflections (Looking back tools).
As we leave this relationship, we are…
Returning to a tri-director leadership model with the intention to bring our learnings from co-leadership into this model (ie. we are determined not to default back to how we used to operate, but rather bring our co-leadership learnings into a three-lead set up).
Stronger than we’ve ever been!
Together we have learned…
Co-leadership brought a lot of structure to our decision making processes. We often sense-checked who should lead on decisions based on area of expertise and responsibility. One of us might pick up an issue and pass it on to the other to lead on. With the clarity of process, we could focus our time on the more complex decisions. This collaborative autonomy helped us to avoid efficiency losses often encountered in co-leadership.
We made all decisions as co-leads during this time, leveraging the benefits of multiple perspectives as co-leadership is designed to do. But we intentionally avoided creating the expectation that we both be present in order to implement the decisions that we made. In fact, we deliberately did not attend any extraordinary meetings together during this time. Upon reflection, we suspect our level of collaboration and communication on decision-making was not very visible to the wider team.
Co-leadership demanded a deeper level of trust in ourselves and in each other. We had to trust ourselves to make decisions in spaces that had previously been a secondary responsibility for us. We had to trust each other to bring questions and uncertainties to the table so that we could discuss and co-own decisions (and the consequences of those decisions) in a transparent and united way.
How you celebrated and reflect with your team, and externally...
From the beginning, we flagged for our wider management team that we would be asking for their feedback at the end of the experience. We made sure to follow up on that request once our co-leadership came to an end and received feedback from all of them.
Rosa posted on LinkedIn at the start of our co-leadership experience, sharing externally some of our thinking around why we choose co-leadership. We also posted a co-authored reflection piece on LinkedIn (shared by both of us) at the end of our co-leadership.
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Anti-Racism Movement launched in 2010 as a grassroots collective by young Lebanese feminist activists in collaboration with migrant workers and domestic workers. ARM’s mission is to achieve social, economic and gender justice for migrant workers and racialized groups in Lebanon - with a specific focus on migrant domestic worker women living under the oppressive Kafala system.
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