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Welcome dear bloomers to our final edition of 2023 💜

With so much heaviness, pain, and loss around the world with the ongoing genocide in Gaza, this is a critical time to hold on tenaciously to hope, and at The Bloom we do so in the most authentic way possible: community. It's our hope that in this final newsletter of the year, you too find feelings of admiration, inspiration, joy in the phenomenal heart-driven projects of bloomers around the world.

This community includes (we're biased, of course 😉) the most diverse and incredible social impact leaders in the world across disability rights, gender equality, climate, economic justice, healthcare and so much more. And while we couldn't bring everyone together in one literal massive party, we brought together 30 of your projects in this special edition of The Bloom to celebrate the talent 🎉

We will take a break publishing The Bloom's newsletter for a few weeks to rest and come back to you more energized than ever to revolutionize the social impact sector, one newsletter at a time.​
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with love & light,
​Jasmine
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🌍Women First Digital

​Women First Digital is a young team of 40+ individuals across 20 countries working on building and developing eHealth products and innovations that help users get accurate, easy to understand, stigma free info on sexual and reproductive health. We're a remote based set up too.

🌍 Global Good Fund

​The Global Good Fund identifies high-potential leaders and organizations and provides them with the coaching, mentorship, funding, and other resources needed to accelerate their social impact — in the United States and 60+ countries around the world. Alumni of GGF's programs have created tremendous social impact, and the nonprofit has gone on to establish a subsidiary consultancy, as well as an impact fund.

🌍 Migrant Women Press

We are migrant women-led, written exclusively by migrant women. We discuss migration through women’s lenses and investigate how the intersections of race, gender, class, nationality and disability impact women’s experiences in a new country. Our mission is to amplify migrant women’s voices, reshaping migration narratives and bringing diversity into the media landscape. I founded Migrant Women Press for two main reasons: firstly, to rediscover my voice in journalism. With nearly a decade of journalistic experience in my home country Brazil, I encountered numerous challenges when seeking opportunities in the European media sector. It resulted in a nearly ten-year gap in my journalism career. As I recognised that other women faced similar obstacles, I created this platform to foster connections among women and amplify our collective voices. Secondly, Migrant Women Press was created to redefine migration narratives. Although migration is a leading topic in newsrooms in Europe, the complexities of migrants’ experiences are overlooked and portrayed in a hostile, biased and stereotyped way. There is a glaring absence of fair and compassionate discussions surrounding migration.
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​🌍Yalla Arabee

​Yalla Arabee is a project founded by an Arabic teacher and an Arabic student creating an original curriculum for Arabic learners to learn the Levantine dialect of Arabic. Our goal is for students to become excellent communicators by focusing on the spoken form of the language and we bring the perspective from both sides to the curriculum from both instructor and student. We also write an original podcast about famous figures (writers, poets, leaders..) we bring valuable education tools to learn a language that is spoken in an absolutely critical area of the world. we believe that creating effective communicators will help to open up dialogues and cross cultural discovery that we are working to facilitate can help humanity.

🌍Freelancing Females

​Freelancing Females is a community of women committed to closing the wage gap in freelancing, contract and remote work. The founder Tia is an incredible person who wants to help women gain independence through freelancing. Before I worked for Freelancing Females I was a part of the community for years and I adore how supportive everyone is to one another and their dedication to equality and changing the landscape of the workplace for anyone who identifies as female.
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🌍Billion Strong ​
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​Billion Strong is an identity and empowerment organization designed to bring the billions of voices of persons with disabilities together. We are a global community of persons with lived experiences of disabilities that will also celebrate our allies and accomplices. In a world where being seen and heard is not a given for everyone, "Discoverability" is a gift. And it is our highest aim to bestow this gift on as many individuals as possible. Our focus is on increasing the "Discoverability" of persons with disabilities, especially those hailing from the Global South.
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🌏Riding the Rainbow

​Riding the Rainbow is a platform fostering connections and aiding young refugees globally. Originally created to help distribute sport items for Ukrainian war refugees in Luxembourg, it has evolved into a global app facilitates the donation of many different types of pre-loved items by directly connecting residents to those in need. It thereby not only promotes the circular economy but also solidarity, as it connects refugees and locals by through redistributing pre-loved items without intermediaton. App users also receive regular notifications on solidarity events and volunteering opportunities. Organizations working with refugees can also showcase their work and equally announce their relevant activities, everything in one map!

🌎Animal Advocacy Careers

The animal advocacy movement is facing a critical talent gap, which slows down our collective impact for animals. AAC’s mission is to speed up the end of animal suffering by matching people to roles that help animals most.

🌍The Development Hub

We host a podcast called The Power Shift: Decolonising Development, and have recently interviewed a range of women across the Global South working on intersectional feminism and funding women's grassroots organisations. We approach international development from a decolonial, anti-racism and feminist perspective, and we are constantly looking out for new guests/collaborators.
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🌏 Colectivx Raíces Negras

​Colectivx Raíces Negras is a grassroots organization founded by and in support of BIPoC community members in Madrid, Spain who want to decolonize the climate justice movement through education.

🌍Carbon Conversations

​Carbon Conversations offers free monthly climate cafes in Canada for people experiencing eco distress. We also offer resources on the intersection of mental health and climate change.

🌍 The Lipstick Politico

​The Lipstick Politico aims to present a myriad of content formats that celebrate and empower underrepresented and underfunded independent creators, offering diverse perspectives, challenging entrenched stereotypes, and cultural taboos of caste, class, gender, and sexuality, highlighting socio-political struggles shaping modern narratives and perspectives.

🌍Wefootball

We are a soccer non-profit organization that uses soccer as a tool to create positive change for people and the world. Our programs work towards our vision and goals at local, national, and international levels. Our team includes UEFA coaches and corporate social responsibility sports experts with decades of experience in Africa. We employ high-quality sports-based methods to support children's development, promote gender equality, enhance youth employability, and foster social inclusion

🌍Where are the black designers?

​WATBD? is an international nonprofit and design advocacy championing Black creators. We partner with brands, orgs and agencies to make space and create a dialogue in decolonizing the design space.

🌎Animenta

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​Animenta is an eating disorder Italian nonprofit. It was founded by telling the stories of those who have experienced an eating disorder to provide a new narrative on the topic but more importantly to give hope and bring concrete help to those living with a disorder today Eating disorders affect 50 million people worldwide, and animenta wants to make sure that people have adequate access to treatment, because getting treatment should not and cannot be a privilege.

🌍 Peerbagh

​Peerbagh is made of two words, Peer meaning wise, and bagh meaning garden. The organization works with a mission to diversify bookshelves and build storytellers. In North America, 70% books for young adults and children are composed of lead characters that are either white or animals. Only 10% books for K-12 are written by authors of color. Peerbagh's mission it to challenge this, and imagine a world where all stories matter.

🌏 Stowarzyszenie Bez

​Bez Association is the first organisation in Poland which offers support to women exploited in the sex industry. It's a grassroots initiative which brings together voices of survivors and activists to provide direct help to those wishing to exit prostitution. We also run a feminist editorial office and organise educational and advocacy events. We would like to share our story to inspire people to get together and run campaigns even when it seems impossible - as it did for us at the very beginning. Despite adversity and misinformation, we build a strong feminist community united against sexual exploitation.
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🌍 WEConnect International
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​WeConnect's mission is to put more money into the hands of women and we want to make a difference. We want to connect women business owners outside the US, to opportunities in the global supply chain.

🌍Mosqoy

This Canadian charity is working to empower women weavers in the Peruvian Andes through three main channels: youth programs (for youth of remote Andean towns), Mosqoy Peruvian textiles (fair trade textiles for sale!), and Mosqoy Fieldschool, looking to promote sustainable and locally provided tourism. We are hosting an auction in october and all proceeds are going directly to support our programs and our cause. For anyone interested in the arts!
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🌍LabStart

At LabStart we are explicitly focused on resourcing women, BIPOC, and rural based entrepreneurs to thrive in creating climate tech companies. We aim to tip the scales on who receives public and private capital for climate technologies!

🌍Break.The.Ice

​Break.The.Ice is an International Youth organization working toward discussing everything taboo and creating an enlightened youth community. Presently in 10+ countries, we have impacted over 25,000 individuals, with over 100+ members in the team. From mental health to menstruation to gender equality and climate change, we cover it all! We have partnered with over 15+ organizations. We try to literally break the ice about everything that society shuns.

🌎Endo Black

​Endo Black is an organization works to advocate for Black women experiencing endometriosis and the reproductive and social justice issues that accompany that diagnosis.

🌍Women First Fund

​WFIF offers a unique, 6 year long grant to only and fully women(trans and queer) led grassroots groups to help them set up economic empowerment programs for women in their immediate community.

🌍Little Oriole Productions

​Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a filmmaker and activist with 10 years of working for gender and racial justice. She produced and directed a docuseries called TAKING ROOT about how southeast Asians resettled in Philadelphia after the war in Vietnam. This was her first film and premiered at Tribeca Festival. It was a community led project in partnership with a nonprofit called VietLead.

🌍Black Remote She

​Black Remote She is a community-driven job platform for Black queer, trans, non-binary, and allied job seekers interested in remote/flexible work opportunities.

🌍eHealth Africa

​eHealth Africa is a tech and data driven non profit that support public health initiatives to achieve their desired goals. The organization has implemented projects that have made significant impact in the Polio program in Africa and developed digital solutions to address challenges in supply chain and last mile health delivery, data management and public health emergency management.

🌍SOKA

​Soka is a communication agency that drives the importance of showing the social impact actions from the proceses, mistakes and findings much more than the big results

🌎Impact Waves​
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​Impact Waves offers women (16+ years old) immersive "brave places" online through workshops, bootcamps and mentoring / coaching, empowering them to share, reflect, and grow personally and professionally, all while prioritising their wellbeing.

🌍Cine Brazil

I'm a co-founder of Cine Brazil, a film screening project that aims to bring the diversity and creativity of Brazilian independent cinema to London, while donating part of the box office to grassroots organisations working at the frontline of Brazilian resistance. This is a volunteer-led project that supports grassroots organisations in Brazil, creates a space to bring people together and brings awareness to important issues. We are working hard now to expand this project to reach people all over Europe, have new partnerships and growing our community.
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​🌍Ijeruka

​Ijeruka is a Pan-African digital learning community. It is the first of its kind to offer deep, liberatory learning experiences that centre Afro-diasporic knowledge, narratives and perspectives on self, social and systemic change. Their courses enable anyone to learn from visionary minds from Africa and beyond who are the forefront of major paradigm shifts, while building a network of peers, many of whom are impact professionals.

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