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Welcome bloomers, Here is your summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱 Launch of The Bloom's collaboration hub for social impact leaders 🌱 Event to refine your personal pitch & story 🌱 3 social impact employers in conservation, feminism, & disaster relief 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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fresh soil
The Asks & Offers space on The Bloom's social impact careers platform is one of the most vibrant in the community ✨That’s why we’re so excited to unveil the way we hope to make it easier to build relationships of reciprocity with fellow bloomers on the platform. We’ve co-created with members an exciting new feature: Reciprocity Hub 🎉 In the Reciprocity Hub, we make it easy for you to find the right mentorship, opportunities for collaboration, and expertise from workshops to 1:1 support/ guidance.
🐝 The story behind Kathryn's offer: "When I was first starting out in my career I worked full time in a domestic violence shelter. The work was very difficult and often felt like a bandaid-- though we served a tremendous number of folks fleeing violence, we were only a respite point.
One day a woman came to our weekly staff meeting and introduced a participatory memoir writing process that she was leading. She explained that she had started with interviewing women in prisons and allowing them to tell their stories (for some, for the first time outside of a courtroom). What she discovered in this process was that 100% of the incarcerated women she spoke to had suffered from childhood physical or sexual trauma.
This led her to move a step back and begin working with women in shelters: giving them the opportunity to tell their stories on their own terms and be heard and witnessed. I got involved in this project for about a year and witnessed first hand the transformative power that storytelling and sharing has for both individual empowerment and social change.
Many of the women who were involved later joined the project as interviewers, saying that the experience had changed their lives.
Since then, over 15 years living in 5 different countries, my work as a feminist researcher and community builder has always been rooted in story-based tools for bringing feminist and decolonial theory into action.
I later had the privilege to obtain an MA in gender studies with a focus on oral history and have used interviews, life stories, and participatory community approaches for social justice causes, including gender-based violence, LGBTQ+ rights to joy and safety, migration, and tenant’s rights."
Reach out to Kathryn and explore our Reciprocity Hub directly in our global social impact community. And make sure to check out the upcoming incredible mentorship and networking events!
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branch out
📚 Fellowships
UN Biosecurity Fellowship: Organized by the United Nations Office for Disarmament Affairs in Geneva in partnership with key international actors empowering youth in science diplomacy and global biosecurity, the Youth for Biosecurity Fellowship provides a unique learning and networking experience into multilateral discussions taking place in the framework of the Biological Weapons Convention in Geneva. YSEALI Women’s Leadership Academy: Empowering Southeast Asian women leaders! Join the YSEALI Women’s Leadership Academy, supported by the U.S. State Department. Over 60 leaders will tackle food insecurity with Wedu’s mentorship. Harvard LEAD Fellowship for Promoting Women in Global Health: Advance your leadership in global health! Join the fully-funded 1-year LEAD Fellowship by Harvard Global Health Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Develop skills through virtual curriculum and 4-week in-person experience. Network with world-class faculty and mentors.
MILEAD Fellows Program: Calling all exceptional young African female leaders! Shine bright with the 2024 MILEAD Fellows Program. Join a community of change-makers dedicated to transforming African communities. Receive world-class training, mentorship, and support. UNU-IIGH Internship Program for Young Scholars: Paid internship in Kuala Lumpur to gain hands-on experience, contribute to policy projects, and enhance your studies. Open to postgraduates, final-year undergraduates, and recent graduates with a stipend provided.
💸 Grants & Awards
Mama Cash Resilience Fund – Empowering Feminist Activism Worldwide: Mama Cash’s Resilience Fund offers grants ranging from EUR 5,000 to 50,000, supporting grassroots feminist movements globally. Global Students Sustainability Award: The award recognizes student organizations that have demonstrated a solid commitment and taken meaningful action to promote sustainable development in their localities, focused on social, economic, and environmental progress, as well as fostering good governance and responsible management throughout the 2023 calendar year.
Climate Challenge focus areas for startups
Climate Challenge Award: Are you an innovative startup working at the intersection of climate change, energy, environment, and water? Here’s your chance to make a global impact! The Climate Challenge, in partnership with SVG Ventures | THRIVE and Alberta Innovates, is calling for applications from startups worldwide for USD 100K investment. African Women’s Development Fund Grants: These grants support projects that promote the rights of women, girls, and gender-diverse individuals. Priority will be given to initiatives addressing structural barriers to gender equality and projects that empower women, girls, and gender-diverse people to lead activism for gender justice.
community garden
Finding a network of extraordinary social & environmental impact leaders to nourish your career growth has never been easier 💜Here's an incredible event bloom members are leading in the community this week:
⚡️Event Overview This space welcomes you to practice your storytelling and pitching. It's an opportunity to gain clarity in your personal and professional narrative, build confidence in articulating your story, and position yourself effectively. Come with a culture of curiosity for listening to others' stories and with an open heart for connection and crafting your own narrative. 📆Event details March 15, 13:00 BRT / 17:00 CET / 21:30 IST 🌍Community Speakers Leonora is a Black woman from Brazil with over 10 years of experience working in higher education and the social impact sector, holding a PhD Comparative Literature. She is one of the leaders of the Kilomba Collective of Black Brazilian Women in the US and serves as the Program Director at the Beatriz Nascimento Foundation. Additionally, she is the co-director of the Young Women Transnational Feminism Mentoring Program. Aurelie is a South American professional passionate about inclusive international cooperation, holding a Master's degree from SciencesPo Paris. As the former coordinator of the Scale-up accelerator at the Paris Peace Forum, she dedicates her free time to advocating for climate justice and fighting against extreme poverty and preventable diseases as a Youth Ambassador for the ONE campaign.
RSVP & connect directly in the "Community & Careers" section of our social impact community platform.
grow new roots
🤎 Social Impact Employer Spotlight
🌍 Walking Softer An organization on a mission to inform, inspire, and support Changemakers to take bold and immediate action in the conservation and regeneration of our planet. Among many incredible activities, they run a global Young Leaders Award is a year-long program that supports passionate young leaders who are vital agents of change and innovators of solutions for the planet.
🌍 Tamùkke Feminists Tamùkke Feminist Rising is an organization founded on intersectional feminist values. Their work primarily focuses on providing information on sexual health, reproductive, economic, and social rights, amongst womxn, LGBTQI people, and sex workers. The missing of Tamùkke Feminist Rising Is to create a vibrant space for the exchange of information, experiences, and ideas related to womxnhood and the intersections of politics, economics, and the environment, with a particular focus on the Guyanese experience.
🌍 Build Change Founded in 2004, Build Change is a non‐profit social innovator whose mission is to greatly reduce deaths, injuries and economic losses caused by housing and school collapses due to earthquakes, extreme weather, and fire. Our global experience shows that home improvement programs focused on improving existing housing can be carried out successfully across a range of countries and disaster contexts. To do this, we implement programs that are both economically and socially sustainable.
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 🇱🇰 Marketing executive – The Pekoe Trail Field officer – The Pekoe Trail Sustainability officer – The Pekoe Trail 🇰🇷 Director of investments – Green Climate Fund 🇮🇩 Indonesia technical advisor – Build Change Indonesia project manager – Build Change LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN 🇬🇹 Farm director – Walking Softer 🇬🇾 Multiple roles – Tamùkke Feminists 🇧🇷 Regional project coordinator – World Wildlife Fund
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