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Welcome bloomers, Here is your summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱 Fully funded impact entrepreneurship fellowship 🌱 LinkedIn mentorship workshop by top recruiters 🌱 Decolonial healing justice practices across the globe 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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🔥 Jobseeker Elevator Pitch I am a PhD Candidate studying transnational feminist networks in the Global South, decolonial social movements, and women-led community organizing. I am a deep believer in the power of grassroots organizing, feminist movement-building, and storytelling to solve some of the biggest problems in our world today. I am most energized working in and leading diverse teams and partnerships that center joy, authenticity, and creativity.
✅ 3 top skills: –Research –Project Management –Data Analysis
🦋 Areas of expertise: –Gender Equity –Policy –Indigenous Rights Employers, reach out to us at team@readtobloom.com for a direct introduction to Sarah and diverse social impact jobseekers around the world 🤎
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Curated collection of Global South/Global North fellowships, grants, awards, competitions – because there are many opportunities to branch out, beyond a traditional 9 – 5 jobs.
💜 Mentorship
Top recruiters in The Bloom are hosting a unique LinkedIn mentorship workshop on April 23 to get insider perspective on what recruiters look for in jobseeker profiles 🎉 Meet your workshop hosts, Rosa and Ben:
Rosa is a lawyer, turned environmentalist, turned operations and people manager with a passion for diversity, equity and inclusion in the sustainability sector. She is no stranger to pivoting on her professional journey and is dedicated to mentoring others who are navigating the next steps in their careers.
Ben is a former bartender, current runner of short distances, DEI ally and supportive friend to all. He’s lived in three countries and currently resides in Stockholm. He has extensive experience as an international recruiter in the tech industry. Ben is a LinkedIn legend and looks forward to sharing his expertise on LinkedIn with The Bloom community!
Bridging Gaps is an NGO which provides microloans for entrepreneurs from the Global South to establish their own businesses by raising donations from the Global North. They're working with local partners in 5 different countries to co-create community microlending initiatives, based on donations which are converted into interest-free loans, and recently partnered with UNHCR to scale this work to empower 60 local refugee entrepreneurs to start their social businesses in Uganda. They're running a fascinating fellowship for young professionals across the world: Bridging Gaps Fundraising Fellowship.
No matter whether you are a university student, a recent graduate, a young professional or already have experience in nonprofit management, the Bridging Gaps Fundraising Fellowship is a great experience for real hands-on training in fundraising and knowledge from UN experts. Asia Foundation Peacebuilding Fellowship: For the professional development of the next generation of leaders committed to addressing conflict and peacebuilding in Asia and the Pacific. Fellows are early or mid-career professionals (up to age 40) with demonstrated potential for leadership in peacebuilding, actively working to promote peace through research, advocacy, policymaking, or other realms bridging knowledge and implementation.
Early-Career Columbia Global Emerging Scholars Fellowship Program: Opportunity for scholars who hold refugee status or have been forcibly displaced to enhance their research capabilities, broaden professional networks, and support their reintegration into academia in the humanities and/or humanistic social sciences. African Women in Leadership and Peacebuilding Fellowship: This award is available to young African women, particularly from conflict-affected contexts, interested in pursuing research, policy and practice careers in the field of peace, security and development. The fellowship is designed to expose African women to security and peacebuilding approaches using leadership studies.
European Young Climate Changemakers Training: 9-month training and development program for young climate changemakers, based in Europe. At their nature-based program, you’ll be trained and paid to deliver a 10-week online Resilience Circle for European climate changemakers. You’ll meet once a week (2 hours) to learn transformational skills in resilience, increase your capacity to take meaningful climate action and connect with new friends. Fellowship for Refugee Leaders: This unique program provides in-depth mentorship experience for refugees with high leadership potential, fostering their development as global leaders. Fellows receive a stipend and professional development funds.
community garden
Curated with our partners ImaginePod, who share The Bloom's vision to dismantle the taboo of money, and social impact careers 💚💸
3 years ago, reading one of The Bloom's newsletters sparked Roopan Gill, an obstetrician gynecologist in family planning and abortion care, to reach out to our team for an introduction to a feminist leader we featured working on abortion care in Latin America. What started as a small email exchange organically bloomed into a multi-year partnership and thousands of lives impacted 🤎 Roopan's organization, Vitala Global, scaled across the globe to co-create and implement digital sexual and reproductive health solutions; achieving milestone partnerships and recognitions in an incredibly stigmatized field. Here's an overview of Roopan and her team's impact: 🎉Recognized by the World Health Organization as one of the top five "innovative and locally relevant abortion programs." 🎉Featured in top-notch media outlets like BBC, Forbes, and Fast Company. 🎉 Proud partners with Planned Parenthood Federation of America. 🎉Winners of the 2024 SXSW Innovation Award for Community Empowerment!
The Bloom has scaled alongside Vitala Global, and their team has become like family –with thousands of bloomers applying to dream roles through Vitala, and multiple phenomenal hires coming directly from The Bloom. Their growth has in turn impacted the lives of the 42,000 social impact leaders in The Bloom, creating employment opportunities and educational resources drastically missing in mass markets for women and girls. That's why we're thrilled to leverage our platform at The Bloom to support Vitala's critical fundraising moment 💸 In July, Vitala's new grant cycle starts, and meanwhile, their team wants to stay together preparing to hit the ground running. Reach out to team@readtobloom.com to hear from Roopan the behind-the-scenes successes and challenges, and the next exciting stage to ensure a world where all women and girls have the freedom to make judgment-free choices to achieve their sexual and reproductive health goals.☀️
pollination partner
Aspiring impact entrepreneurs in The Bloom, this one is for you 🌹This fully-funded fellowship is a 16-week program for entrepreneurs seeking to elevate their ventures with access to a global network, skills trainings, and mentorship with seasoned professionals, venture capitalists, and executives. We sat down with one of their fellows to get a behind-the-scenes take on the impact of joining 🤎
Intisoler team in Peru 🇵🇪
☀️ Social impact entrepreneur spotlight I'm a 23-year-old student-entrepreneur and consultant from Argentina. I work in process improvement and sustainability, supporting companies in their goals to enhance efficiency. We focus on enhancing processes across various industries and aiding companies in becoming B Corporations by setting improvement goals and obtaining certification. That's my 9 to 5. After that, I'm also involved in a couple of other projects. My main venture is Intisoler, and I also attend college, studying business administration in the evenings.
🚀 Venture built and scaled through fellowship: Intisoler is a nonprofit organization where we support and assist families in remote areas to access hot water through solar systems. Currently, we focus on solar water heaters, with plans to expand into the broader solar ecosystem, providing solar panels and other forms of energy. It's about empowering these communities.
💙 Impact of joining the fellowship: I got involved in Intisoler through the Watson Institute, specifically, the Venture Accelerator I participated in 2022. Before that, I received a scholarship due to winning an award for one of my projects related to cryptocurrencies. However, when the crypto market crashed, the project fell apart. So, entering the Venture Accelerator, I was exploring different ideas. There, through the Watson Institute program, I met my co-founder, Yurei. She had a strong desire to assist Peruvian communities after a visit revealed they had computers provided by the government but lacked electricity to use them effectively. It seemed illogical. Given my engineering background and Spanish fluency, I was a good fit. So, we teamed up and started working on Intisoler thanks to this fellowship!
grow new roots
Hand-picked job opportunities and employers we love around the world, selected from a diverse team of social impact leaders behind the scenes at The Bloom who are excited for you to grow new roots in your career. LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN 🇧🇸 Admin assistant – The Lab School 🇲🇽 Persona asesora de la dirección ejecutiva – Asylum Access Prácticas profesionales comunicación – Asylum Access Especialista en comunicación – GIZ Mexico EUROPE Operations manager – Third Generation Environmentalism 🇧🇪 Finance manager – AccessNow ASIA + OCEANIA 🇮🇳 Carbon & impact technical coordinator – Sistema.bio Public health manager – reach52 🇵🇬 Gender-based violence project coordinator – ChildFund
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