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🌱 Interview with LGBTQI+ leader in development 🌱 Global fellowship for visual social impact storytellers 🌱 Traineeship at European Network for Fundamental Rights 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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Whether you're an educator looking to inspire students, an organizer aiming to create impactful events, or an individual passionate about climate advocacy, this guide will help you create meaningful experiences. ↪ Guide
🐌 In the ecophilosophy movement. 🚴♀️ Cycling from Vancouver to Patagonia. ❄️ Climate song created in Alaska.
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🌳 Fellowships
Young Voices European Fellowship: Remote, paid, part-time opportunity for candidates in Europe ages 18-35 interested in writing about policy to receive up to $500 a month. CatchLight Global Fellowship: For visual storytellers who ignite social change through photography, videography or leadership by leveraging the power of visuals to create impactful audience engagement and innovative distribution models. Up to $30,000 in financial support and paid travel to their summit in San Francisco. African Peacebuilding Network Fellowship: For African scholars and practitioners working on conflict and peacebuilding issues. Traineeship at the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights: 6-month paid traineeship offered to nationals of European Union Member States, EEA or EU candidates who are recent university graduates that would benefit from initial work experience. LEAF Fellowship at The Climate Initiative: Provides paid employment and professional development to empower, train, and mentor young adults from the U.S. to support the creation of a climate ready workforce and a generation of young leaders for climate action. Storytelling Fellowship for Latin America: Connects regional filmmakers and social innovators in Latin America to produce solutions-focused short documentaries that catalyze positive change.
🌍 Tools
COP28 Virtual Badge: For young people around the world to participate in the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) from home. Training for Changemakers in Oceania: 3-day in-person training on moving peacebuilding theory into practice offered by Rotary International and the Institute of Economics and Peace. Training costs (international airfare, lodging, local travel and meals) are fully funded. Feminist Leadership Training: Part-time, 12-week program of online learning grounded in feminist theory and practice. Sustainability for Startups Course: Step-by-step guide for business owners who want to learn more about the fundamentals of sustainability, and how to incorporate them into their business practices.
pollination partner
Our partners at Watson Institute are leading recruitment for several fully funded fellowships, focusing on social impact leaders pollinating change in their local communities, here's a few we're buzzing about 🐝 🌻Georgia-based entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, small business owners, Truist Foundation: Fellows receive technical training, enhance business acumen, and gain financial literacy knowledge. 🌻Impact entrepreneurs globally, Ford Fund Fellowship: Intensive venture and leadership development program; this fully-funded virtual program with the pool of USD 40,000 in funding. 🌻Youth homelessness and/or poverty early-stage business owners & nonprofit leaders, Leslie L Alexander Foundation Fellowship: Fully-funded venture and leadership program receive technical training, enhance business acumen, and financial literacy knowledge. Make sure to bookmark their page for more fellowships in the future: they have many all over the world, such as the Rising Leaders of Mexico’ Fellowship 🇲🇽
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🔎SOCIAL IMPACT EMPLOYER SPOTLIGHT
Hivos is an international cooperation organization supporting civil society organizations in Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. We sat down Saida, the Global Program Manager for the Free to be Me at Hivos, a 5 year program implemented in 12 countries thataims at supporting a vibrant LGBTIQ+ civil society to generate public support and influence governments, businesses, societal actors to become advocates for human and socio-economic rights of people of diverse sexual orientation, gender identity and express and sex characteristics.
How did you get to where you are today in your career?
I started my activism at an early age. When I was 10 years old, my childhood best friend, who was 12 years at the time died after undergoing female genital mutilation. Soon after my mother made the decision that my sisters and I would not go through the practice. Those were the beginnings of me questioning gender injustices and making observations even as a child that girls and women around me experienced intersecting forms of oppression and discrimination.
I learned to be a feminist from a woman who did not know she was a feminist - my mother. As I grew up and as a young person I identified spaces, books, and educational opportunities that sharpened my feminist analysis. As such feminist teachings gave me the language and the tools to fight patriarchy. As a trained sociologist, somewhere along my feminist learning I expanded my observations and human rights education. In my early twenties I had great mentors, the former Chief Justice of Kenya, Dr. Willy Mutunga and Dr. Jacinta Muteshi, an amazing conscious feminist who remains my mentor to date. How I continue to show up for human rights today was pretty much shaped by lessons from Dr. Mutunga and Dr. Muteshi.
From great feminists and academics such as Prof. Silvia Tamale and other African feminists such as Hope Chigudu I learned that it was impossible to address the issue of gender without connecting it to sexuality. From Bisi Adeleye-Fayemi, I learned from earlier on, African women must learn to speak beyond a whisper.
As a mother, I have learned a lot from others and acquired sisters who have supported my career and parenting beyond bloodlines. When I started off doing gender justice work it felt like the right place to be in. When my daughter came into this work, working on diversity, equity and inclusion has become a life mission.
My journey in working on gender and sexuality continues locating the oppressions of people with diverse sexualities, gender identities and expressions, and sex characteristics in the human rights discourse. I started off from local and national feminist organizing spaces and now I have the privilege to do that across the globe. I am part of a global Atlantic community, the Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity hosted at the London School of Economics and Political Science. That Atlantic global community has been an unparalleled space of understanding global crises and how they are fueled by different forms of inequalities.
“The rise of the global middle class and global plutocrats” by Branko Milanovic in his book Global Inequality
“Decolonization” by Minna Salami in her book Sensuous Knowledge- A black feminist approach for everyone
Negotiating sexual and reproductive health and rights at the UN: a long and winding road by Alexandra Garita and Francoise Girard, in ‘The Remaking of Social Contracts - Feminists in a Fierce New World’ edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano.
Sexuality as a weapon of biopolitics: rethinking Uganda’s anti-homosexuality bill by Rosalind P. Petchesky in ‘The Remaking of Social Contracts - Feminists in a Fierce New World’ edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano.
Countless Feminist Economists have influenced my thinking and analysis on the care economy and women’s unpaid care work; Naila Kabeer, Nancy Folbre, Beverly Skeggs, Diane Elson, Sakiko Fukuda-Parr, and Jayati Ghosh. I have also had the privilege of meeting most of them in person as my professors.
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