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, Here is your summary of our newsletter this week: 🌱 UNICEF young climate leader paid fellowship 🌱 Social impact career interview with finance educator 🌱 L’Oréal's global fund for women-led NGOs 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 forimpactful organizations to partner with The Bloom to bring connections, resources, and opportunities to our global community.
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What is your “official” professional role and field? I'm a Financial Officer, working for an NGO. My day-to-day involves handling budgets, audits, and various financial matters. What is your unofficial role and field? Beyond my official duties, I'm a financial educator. I'm passionate about empowering women by teaching them how to manage their finances, invest in their dreams, and become more autonomous and independent. I've also spoken at events for impact entrepreneurial women, offering advice on navigating the financial aspects of their ventures. I believe financial dependency is a tool of control, particularly over women, and aim to dismantle this by promoting financial independence. This mission challenges the taboo within the nonprofit sector that sometimes equates financial discussions with greed or capitalism, a perception I really want to change. How did you get to where you are today in your career? My career has had some twists and turns. It began with an internship in accounting at an NGO. Then I started to work in an account firm, however, I found no joy in that role and I decided to follow my desire to make a more direct impact on women's lives, leading me to pursue a Doula course. Then the pandemic hit and I needed to reinvent myself to keep the bills paid from the safety of home with my child, marking the beginning of my journey as a financial educator. I started with individual clients and after that I started collaborating with organizations focused on education. This role has not only allowed me to significantly impact women's lives but also brought me immense satisfaction and was incredibly rewarding. Hearing their stories of empowerment and financial independence confirmed the significance of my work and they still serve as a reminder of why I embarked on this path. The entrepreneurial path had its challenges, especially being a mom. I needed more security and stability, so that led me to return to organizational work while continuing my financial education work as a side project. Your relationship to “social impact”: has it evolved since you began your career? I always knew I wanted to have meaningful work with a significant social impact, yet felt somewhat disillusioned due to my choice of studying accountancy, because I thought it was going to be difficult to merge the two. However, my perspective changed after joining an NGO as an accountant intern, where I realized meaningful work can indeed be achieved "behind the scenes". Becoming a financial educator brought me closer to the front lines of social impact, especially in the one-on-one work with clients. I'm back to the "behind the scenes" but now more confident with my choices. Social impact resources you recommend: Accounts on social media? Nath Finanças and Eduardo Amuri, they talk about finance with a realistic point of view, for everyday people and not only for the rich. Books? Non-fiction: "Thinking, Fast and Slow" by Daniel Kahneman. It's a brilliant exploration of financial psychology, helping to understand our decision-making processes. Fiction: "Delilah Green Doesn't Care" by Ashley Herring Blake. A really cute queer novel featuring bisexual characters and delightful clichés.
Connect with Suelen and inspiring social impact leaders in directly in our global social impact community! And make sure to check out the upcoming incredible mentorship and networking events.
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🌴 The last Kaua’i ’O’o in Hawaii. 🐠 Climate fiction story.
L’Oréal Fund for Women: Fund to support frontline organizations in their efforts to help women to get out of poverty, prevent domestic, sexual and gender-based violence against women. The Fund focuses on supporting women and girls’ empowerment, particularly through projects in favor of social or professional integration and education. Grants for EU Country Researchers: Democracy Reporting International is seeking early-career researchers to contribute to their mission of ensuring transparent European Parliament elections. Data Empowerment Fund: The purpose is to support a diverse set of initiatives that enable greater individual agency or community control over data. The Data Empowerment Fund will provide grants of either USD 50k or 100k, and will support around ten initiatives in total.
📚 Fellowships & Scholarships
Google’s Rising Influencers with Disabilities: Experiential learning program crafted for and with people with disabilities and tailored for people who want to grow their personal brand on social media through creative content development. **Friends, deadline for this is ASAP but we wanted to include in case it could help some of you 🥰 UNICEF Leading Minds Fellowship on Climate: Are you taking climate action in your community and beyond? If you are between 15 and 25 years old and dream of playing a critical role in shaping not just your own future, but the future of a world facing its greatest crisis, then UNICEF would love to hear from you for an intensive, six-month program designed to foster and harness the talents of young climate leaders. L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science: For women from from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syrian Arab Republic. This program identifies and rewards talented young female researchers in the field of Life Sciences as well as Physical Sciences.
Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Women in Global Health: 1-year fellowship designed to advance leadership skills in individuals from low- and middle-income countries, is now open for applications. The goal of the program is to support the continued development of women leaders in global health.
USA Generation Next Humanitarian Fellowship: An initiative that aims to increase the diversity of professionals in USA humanitarian sector by building a pathway for seniors and recent graduates of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Asian American and Pacific Islander Institutions and Tribal Colleges and Universities.
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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 one to support this week 🌍
🇵🇭 Bloomers from the Philippines created a grassroots collective, KERI: Caring for Activists , of Filipino mental health practitioners and social justice defenders who are supporting the wellbeing of kapwa/fellow activists experiencing political repression, oppression, and human rights violations. Their mission is to disrupt and disturb hegemonic, neo-liberal, and capitalist approaches to mental health and wellbeing.
On Feb 29 they are hosting a free Spanish-English (Filipino notes will be provided after) workshop where you will learn from Brenda Zambrano, an Afro-Colombian clinical psychologist, activist, and trauma-informed yoga practitioner. As well as Filipino defenders, who will be sharing stories about mental health, the environment, gender, race, and/or the Philippine War on Drugs. The workshops aspire to create spaces for critical and cross-cultural dialogues on decolonization and indigenous psychologies; as well as collective care and other therapeutic skills/practices rooted in resistance and liberation from community healers around the world.
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🌟 Social Impact Employer Spotlight
BuildPalestine is a young social enterprise founded in 2016 with the mission to connect supporters around the world with innovative, social-impact projects. They support the inspiring and growing social innovation sector in Palestine by connecting individuals looking to support innovative projects with those making an impact within their communities.
Email team@readtobloom.com to feature your organization and job openings to 40,000 diverse and talented bloomers around the world. Warning: spicy sidenote comments might appear when we want to *extra* express how much we love these job openings 🌶️ ASIA + OCEANIA Aquaculture manager – Conservation International 🇸🇬 Youth engagement coordinator – Conservation International
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