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 the newsletter this week: 🌱Global fund for mental health youth activists 🌱Direct referral for USA remote comms job 🌱Leadership fellowship for women in social impact with love & light, Bloom Team 💌 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
Meet the diverse social impact leaders of The Bloom. Every week brings "fresh soil" – inspiration for your career and beyond by learning about our network of leaders across the globe.
🌱Ashley Erickson Why Ashley joined The Bloom: She's looking to find more similar vision-driven folks within climate justice to build solidarity with.
Ashley's social impact career journey: It spans crisis intervention, fair housing and direct service work for youth to freelancing as an english teacher to varied work in the BIPOC space, including grant-writing, a panelist position and as co-founder of Colectivx Raíces Negras, which aims to decolonize the climate movement.
🌱Karlotta Garinet
Why Karlotta joined The Bloom: Because of the inspiring and empowering environment created. She believes that whether it is through the shared interests, values, or goals, that being a part of this group will allow her to grow as a person and public leader.
Karlotta's social impact career journey: She is an active duty officer in the German Armed Forces, with a Mac degree in psychology and currently enrolled in a Master’s in civil-military interaction. She also works with youth in environmental awareness and promoting translating relations, communications for permaculture in refugee camps, is part of Women in International Security Germany and a Women in Foreign Affairs Fellow and a mentor for educational justice.
👀 for a quick extra peek into more of the fascinating new members who recently joined The Bloom's community:
Estelle Clayton I Development Officer at Malaika I Non-profit Fundraiser and Development Strategist
Mirna Dragas I Product Manager at Bridge for Billions IImpact Entrepreneurship
Khush Bakht Memon I Coordinator at Newcomers Warm Line and Peer Crisis Support Services, Community Engagement Professional, Researcher and Spoken Word Artist I Arts, Advocacy, and Community Engagement
Curated collection of Global South/Global North resources, programs, events – because there are many opportunities to branch out, beyond a traditional 9 – 5 jobs.
📚 Fellowships
For African social impact leaders: Mandela Washington fellowship: 6-week leadership training at a U.S. university. Since 2014, the program has brought nearly 6,500 young leaders from every country in Sub-Saharan Africa to the United States for academic and leadership training. Women's Impact Alliance Fellowship for high-impact women globally: The program provides a unique ecosystem of leadership development and coaching specific to the social impact sector. Through the combination of executive coaching, trusted peer-to-peer forums, and leader-lab workshops, our Empowered Leader Program is designed to increase the leadership capacity of the next generation of women leaders in social and environmental change. UK creatives for climate policies fellowship: An experimental program supporting storytellers to develop skills to help policymakers. This interdisciplinary collaboration will explore how more compelling narratives could enable policymakers to take better decisions on climate change and communicate them to the public.
🌐E-Learning
Climate Resilience Academy
CARE Climate and Resilience Academy: Offers free self-paced courses ranging from 1 to 2 hours to help you acquire knowledge on climate change and resilience. The platform is built on 20 years of experience in resilience, community-based adaptation, and climate advocacy. Download free a best-selling international human rights book: The textbook examines the world of contemporary human rights, including legal norms, political contexts and moral ideals. These include the struggles against resurgent racism and anti-gender ideology, the implications of new technologies for fact-finding and many other parts of the regime, the continuing marginality of economic, social and cultural rights, radical inequality, climate change, and the evermore central role of the private sector.
💸Grants
Funding to support youth mental health projects: Countries eligible include Colombia, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Morocco, Pakistan, Romania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, and Vietnam. If you have a bold idea that addresses the early drivers of mental health challenges for underserved young people aged 10-24, you can receive to $1.5M CAD for Transition-to-Scale or up to $250K CAD for Proof-of-Concept projects. USA climate BIPOC young leaders fund: Provides financial awards to young BIPOC climate leaders who are advocating for and transforming their communities toward racial and environmental justice. The Fund provides access to resources for young BIPOC climate leaders between the ages of 18 and 32 who are reshaping the broader climate movement. Disability justice African participatory fund: Supports local organizations in Ghana, Tanzania, and Uganda and is designed by women disability activists to advance the African Disability Protocol and strengthen movements of women with disabilities in the continent. Sports fund byInternational Olympic Committee: Aims to incubate and support innovations from social enterprises which promote income generation models and sustainable finance solutions for sport for sustainable development. Social businesses and entrepreneurs, start-ups and registered non-profits looking to incorporate income generation or sustainable finance solutions into sport for development are encouraged to apply.
community garden
Our community includes the most diverse leaders in social impact across the globe 🌍 Here are the latest opportunities for reciprocity & connection this week in The Bloom: 🌵Karlotta: Does anyone here have experience in establishing a LGBTQIA+ community center/ initiative in a country or place with high rates of crimes against this group and reluctance/ignorance of local authorities?
🌴Bianca: Hello everyone! Bridge for Billions is looking for an Ecosystem Manager to join our team for the Conecta Migrants & Refugees program. The person is required to leave in Madrid or already be in Spain and available to relocate. I work in the same program but in Italy, so if you or someone you know is interested please reach out to me. I'd be very happy to have a chat! 🌷Anne-Sharlene: Hey Bloomers. Excited to share this upcoming offering we have at Kurapa Moyo. We will be exploring the impact of socioeconomic factors on women's well-being with a special interest in the South African landscape (it is currently Women's month). If you are interested in joining us, please RSVP via this link.
☀️Carlota: Hi bloomers! Thought this event might interest some of you - am seeing if I'll go or not but wanted to share with you all in the meantime, especially for those interested on climate and its intersections with social justice.
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Last month, one of our readers Tanatswa Chingwe from South Africa read about a free masterclass in The Bloom's newsletter by one of our partner organizations, ImaginePod called Break Free from Autopilot. The masterclass then led to getting an invitation to the free weekly Fundraising Success Pod, a small-group incubator led by Adriana Dakin of ImaginePod.
Tanatswa had left her job in corporate earlier this year and founded a nonprofit called Tafara Wellness Initiative to fulfill her dream of providing psychosocial support to African women and children by providing free counselling.
In the fundraising incubator, she started creating a campaign to gain sponsors for “Counseling for African Women and Children” because she has always felt a calling to help other people overcome the trauma often caused by a poor quality of life.
She says, “The work that we've done in just 6 weeks in the incubator actually is phenomenal. As I’m setting up my campaign in Donorbox, I’m becoming more confident. It’s easy to build the strategy, and journaling has been helpful. I’m doing affirmations and walks, and I feel called to do this work. Even when I feel stress, now I ask myself, “Whom can I ask for advice?” It’s all thanks to you, as the sessions have made me think about this.”
Like so many in The Bloom's network, Tanatswa is amazing as an intentional action taker. Adriana is so grateful to have had weekly collaboration with Tanatswa on helping her vision to bloom — and in time for the upcoming charitable Season of Giving.
Bloomers can join the next masterclass and incubator as well! The next masterclass will take place this Tuesday, and the incubator has Wednesday and Friday options. Reach out to us at team@readtobloom.com and we will make the intro for you to ImaginePod🤎
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