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Welcome bloomers, Here is your our summary of our FIRST newsletter of 2024 🧡 🌱Bloom coach advice on finances in social impact 🌱Newsletter on diversity & inclusion in the workplace 🌱150 social impact job openings around the world 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.
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Dani is an activist turned coach for social justice, offering politicized transformational coaching for changemakers of all kinds. They've spent more than 10 years contributing to queer, trans, feminist, climate & social justice movements, and have been through different cycles of relating to activism: from finding meaning and belonging, to feeling disillusioned and heartbroken, from the front lines, to the backstage, from wanting to change the world to struggling to transform themselves - and everything in between. Dani is a somatics/embodiment student, and a queer, non binary person. They're also...one of the phenomenal coaches in The Bloom. Here were some of their reflections to a question from the community:
Based on your experience, how do you think we can embark on a sustainable professional journey to establish and contribute to transformative companies and projects? I believe that working on roles that genuinely make a difference often requires sacrificing a stable salary, which may not be a viable or sustainable option for most of us.
I’d start by asking yourself:
What does a sustainable journey (or even life and career) look like for you?Get as concrete as possible: x amount of $, how does your time/day/week/year look like, style of work, etc? What are the non-negotiables? (maybe time off, holidays, health benefits, etc) What are things that are not so important for you now, so you could compromise?
Where did you learn that belief around roles that make a difference = sacrificing a stable salary? For what does it serve you in this moment?
What you say is true, and there are many other truths. I’ve met people working in NGOs with very good pay, as well as people in the corporate sector saying they are not paid enough. It all depends on the reference points we have. In this case, what matters most is what are your needs for a sustainable life at the moment. Clearly defining these parameters will help you navigate this more easily. If you live in a big city with big expenses might be different than living in a shared house or with your parents.
The other thing I’d ask you is: what does it mean to genuinely make a difference? How will you know that your role is genuinely making a difference? What tells you that you don’t genuinely make a difference in the role you have now? Are there ways you can make a difference from where you are now? What else would you need to be able to do that?
Also: do you know any people who managed to have a sustainable life while having a career that genuinely makes a difference? How did they do it?
I hope these questions will support you to uncover some more nuance, and in this way get you closer to what you what's yours to do, in a way that brings you the satisfaction you need.
Ask any questions to Dani, and other phenomenal social impact coaches directly in The Bloom's social impact careers community 🥰
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Diversifying the social impact organizations you follow has never been more joyful 😉 Bloomers lead incredible social impact projects around the world, here's a few to support this week 🌍 🇮🇳Newsletter on Diversity Equity Inclusion, Justice, and Leadership in the workplace: "I'm an educator, writer, and queer human from Chennai. In the last decade, I've worked with oppressed communities as an educator, curriculum designer, facilitator, and community builder. During the Covid-19 pandemic, I began seeing stories about companies undertaking DEI efforts in the workplace. But so many of these measures have turned out to be tokenistic attempts from capitalist giants to boost their brand reputation and appear inclusive. So, I decided to dig deeper and understand what it takes to build a workplace that can truly be inclusive, equitable, diverse, and just. What kind of leadership do we need to cultivate to do this? What does it mean to dismantle oppressive systems in the workplace? How can we foster a culture of wellbeing, care, and justice at work? How can we be harder on exclusionary and harmful systems and softer on human beings? These are the questions that I will will attempt to explore through my newsletter."
🇩🇪#MakeMacroMatter project helps you overcome barriers to learning about macro social work:"I began this project as a macro social work student outraged by the lack of educational resources, job placements, and public knowledge of macro social work. I discovered that even social work governing bodies primarily focus on clinical or direct-service social work. Inspired by macro social worker / student-led campaigns dating back to 2013, I decided to start the #MakeMacroMatter project."
🇧🇷 Study group for health professionals to integrate psychological dimensions of sexual health into clinical practice: "As a cisgender woman from Brazil, I have personally faced many difficulties in finding appropriate care for sexual pain. Through my experiences, I've realized that the lack of sexual education, combined with the stigma around SRHR, has resulted in a severe lack of knowledge of sex-positive health practices. Since graduating as a psychologist and sex therapist, I have been committed to providing evidence-based care to individuals and advocating for the importance of sexual well-being with other health professionals. Through this study group, my goal is to educate practitioners on the psychological aspects of sexual well-being and empower them with sex-positive practices."
🇮🇳 Old World Order, a history project on communities that have been overlooked: "My immense love for history motivated me to start a platform called, "Old World Order" that aims to shed light on communities that have been given less significance in mainstream history. When I was in my final year of high school, I noticed how the textbooks didn't write about the histories of the regional communities. I realised that there are so many communities that we have never heard about and if we don't preserve them, there will be a day these stories will be forgotten. So, I decided to contribute my part to do something about it."
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The New Futures Fellowship: 3-month remote fellowship program that focuses on innovative and interdisciplinary solutions to the climate crisis. This fellowship brings together activists and scholars from around the globe to conduct research, make policy recommendations, and produce creative digital content.
💸Grants
Story grant for Indigenous environmental journalists: grants to Indigenous journalists to support the production of in-depth environmental stories that call attention to climate justice, biodiversity, sustainable ecosystems, Indigenous sovereignty and leadership, and other issues related to the rights and well-being of Indigenous peoples and communities.
For NGOs based in Spain: Aimed at leaders of the third sector who work in non-profit organisations based in Spain, it is now in its 8th edition and seeks to help develop projects from a strategic vision, design new models of income generation, professionalise the value proposal and move away from traditional philanthropic schemes.
Doria Feminist Fund: On a mission to create a feminist ecosystem, empowering a new generation of activists in the Middle East and North Africa. Their holistic approach includes an Accompaniment Program, working alongside grantees to master the tools needed to develop and sustain their work by building networks, developing skills, and fostering alliances with fellow feminist groups in the MENA region.
pollination partner
Our partners over at Watson Institute are leading recruitment for a 16-week virtual, fully funded venture and leadership BMO Fellowship:, focusing on leaders pollinating change in their local communities 🐝 across USA's Midwest, here’s a few highlights about the fellowship: 📚Virtual Immersive and Training: The fellowship will begin with a virtual immersive in the weeks leading up to the start of the program. Then, fellows will engage in weekly expert-led modules covering Data & Metrics, Go-To-Market, Funding, and Team Management. 💡Impact Series: Renowned sustainability leaders, entrepreneurs, and practitioners join the fellowships we power to share their entrepreneurial journey and experience, as well as mentor the Fellows. 🏔️Basecamp: A 1 to 3-day workshop designed and led by Fellows for their own stakeholders and communities.
Watson Institute has many other fellowships around the world, so make sure to bookmark their page to stay up to date on upcoming recruitment campaigns 🌎
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Email team@readtobloom.com to feature your organization and job openings to 40,000 diverse and talented bloomers around the world. ASIA + OCEANIA 🇸🇬 Asia program manager – Fondation CHANEL 🇹🇭 Finance Coordinator – Asylum Access 🇮🇳 Project coordinator – International Food Policy Research Institute
.....For even more jobs, our partners at the Social Innovation Summit recently curated a spreadsheet with over 150 social impact roles around the world, check them out 🚀
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