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!
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Welcome bloomers, Moments of crisis, moments of urgency, demand we slow down so we might see more clearly through our hearts. In slowing down, we see there has never been a more important time to protect the blooming of humanity: we stand, and hope you will too, with the hearts of those demanding ceasefire to genocide:
"We mourn the victims of violence in Palestine and Israel. We listen to context and learn from history of genocide, apartheid, and occupation. We are witnessing all the trauma from colonialism, Islamophobia, and anti-semitism tearing up communities right now. We stand with all that are working towards the liberation from oppression everywhere. We demand a ceasefire in Gaza." – Closer Than You Think
"It is our collective responsibility to demand an immediate ceasefire and humanitarian aid, actively participate in demonstrations, and hold our governments accountable for their role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. " – Young Feminist Solidarity "They do not want donations or fundraising now—that will come after the war. Now, the most urgent thing is to demand a ceasefire." – nöl collective
"The genocide unfolding in front of our eyes, might seem hopeless, but we have citizen power – decolonisation is not a metaphor, and we all have a role to play." – Shado Join us in calling for an immediate ceasefire to stop this humanitarian catastrophe and further loss of innocent lives. 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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Young feminist activists from across the world create website for Palestine: The activists have come from many collectives and institutions to create a website with a call for urgent action for feminist political solidarity, invitation to share your message of solidarity with the Palestinian community, and an expansive resource library.→ Website
🧶 Majdalawi fabric in Gaza. 🎤Palestinian-American lawyer & Jewish-American comedian. 🤎 Storytelling is an act of justice.
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🌳 Fellowships, Grants, Awards
Swedish Institute Scholarship 2024: Fully funded Master's degrees to students from around the world, covering all tuition fees, living expenses, insurance, and travel grants for over 700 master‘s programs in Sweden. Melton Foundation Global Citizenship Learning Program: 1.5 year experimental program open to university students with a passion for local community impact aged 18-25 that are currently enrolled at one of their partner universities. Feminist Internet Research Network: Seeks research proposals that undertake data-driven feminist research on critical and emerging issues related to technology-facilitated gender-based violence for up to USD 40,000. Priority will be given to researchers and organisations based in the global South. The Maypole Fund: Up to GBP 1000 in grants from a small grant-giving organization that funds feminist activism against militarism and war.
🦋 Workshops & Networking Events
Social impact networking events and workshops happening in The Bloom next month – RSVP!
Healing racial trauma workshop – Jacquelyn is a designer, founder, and author of the upcoming Penguin Random House book Racial Wellness. In The Bloom she will share more about her career journey and facilitate a workshop about healing racial trauma: "I'm excited to host an event about healing racial trauma for the Bloom community because it is important to create spaces it is important to create spaces for Black, Indigenous, and people of color looking to heal, process, and empower themselves as they navigate the wounds they experience from racism. It is also important for guardians, educators, employers, counselors, therapists and those in positions of care to understand how to properly prioritize the needs of communities of color."
Alya's journey to build a career in sustainability:Alya is a Sustainability Change Agent on a mission to inspire, educate, and champion sustainability 🌱Since she embarked on her green journey, she's spread knowledge to inspire more individuals to start their own journey. From organising free workshops and holding sustainability talks to creating sustainability-focused communities.
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What is your “official” professional role and field?
I’m currently in the last year of my PhD in Political Sociology at Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, researching the use and impact of art as a tool of protest and social change. My ‘obsession’ with art is rooted both in an academic curiosity but also my own practical experience, having been a dancer for 15 years.
Aside from uni, I’m a member of the executive team and a podcast coordinator at Lazy Women: an international feminist platform and community of around 50 volunteer writers and illustrators, which aims to open taboo topics surrounding womanhood and challenge our society’s toxic relationship with hustle culture. We aim to make women’s labour visible and work towards a real revolution of the workspace: turning it into a caring, flexible and empowering environment in which we collectively strive to achieve a real societal change. We are actually running a crowdfunding campaign right now as a first step towards this goal. If interested, you can learn more about it here.
What if your unofficial role and field?
I’ve always been a bit of a jack-of-all-trades. A dancer, writer, researcher, sound editor and documentary filmmaker, community organiser, activist/artivist, and a project manager. At the same time, I’m also a relentless book lover, wine enthusiast and an art advocate with an undying passion to do my bit to make the world a more liveable place, while lifting others up to do the same.
What all of these have in common is an underlying feeling of personal responsibility to speak against injustices, dig deeper, and raise awareness on what’s going on, be it through making a documentary film about our university getting kicked out for political reasons, building a feminist community and creative hub for women from under-represented regions, recording podcasts about democratic backsliding, or amplifying voices of those who are silenced on social media. With the current state of the world, when unspeakable atrocities are happening right in front of our eyes but mostly come unpunished, I think it’s more important than ever for researchers, artists, and social impact workers to leave our Ivory Towers and try to make a real difference.
How did you get to where you are today in your career?
I would say out of sheer stubbornness. I grew up in an industrial and old mining town in the Czech Republic in a mostly working class family. Raised by a single mum, from quite an early age I felt an immense weight of personal responsibility to do something useful with my life and not to be a burden. I quickly turned into a workaholic, excelling at school, while trying to wind down at my dancing practice. If it wasn’t for money, I suppose I would have had a go at a dancing career but my ambitions in this field were immediately crushed by my family who was convinced that I would never make a living as an artist.
So I went into academia, rebelling against my family wishes to become a lawyer or a doctor and instead studied politics and international relations. I was desperate to understand the world, absorb in as much information as possible, and learn where I could be of use. My family was fairly apolitical – we rarely discussed historical events or the current political situation apart from the traditional ‘they are all corrupt anyway’ rhetoric, which is so common in my region. This approach felt simply too shallow for me, because I knew I could do more, I just needed to find the right outlet for it.
In fact, I’m the first person in my family who pursued an advanced university degree and also the only one who left my hometown. At the age of 18, I left for university, taking on a bunch of odd jobs to make my ends meet.
Impact resource rapid fire questions! Tools/projects you recommend others follow in social impact:
Podcasts?
Shado Lite: a wide range of extremely well-researched topics about everything from eco-anxiety to indigenous storytelling
Trendwatching.com for a dose of impact-oriented industry innovations
Jenny Mustard for anti-trends, childlessness, and sustainable eating habits
Tom M. Novak for behavioral and cultural analyses
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🔎SOCIAL IMPACT EMPLOYER SPOTLIGHT
WINS Global Consult is an international consultancy company with a small multinational team with a vast network in Southern Africa, Asia and Latin America, and a growing project portfolio in Feminist Development Cooperation.
They have been commissioned to analyze multilevel cooperation networks on feminist migration policy in Latin America & the Caribbean and in the Sahel Region and compared the status quo with local expectations and local needs represented by regional intergovernmental institutions, CSOs, and individuals to formulate policy recommendations. The Bloom this week will make direct employer introductions to WINS Global Consult for bloomers who are gender/migration experts 💜
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