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!
"supported with love by Algbra" "supported with love by Algbra" supported with love by Algbra
Welcome bloomers, Here is your summary of the newsletter this week: 🌱 USD 1 –5 million global grants from Melinda Gates 🌱 Bloomer interview with viral TikTok climate creator 🌱 Anzisha prize for 15-22 yr old African entrepreneurs with love & light, The 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.
📲City-based WhatsApp social & environmental groups: Head over to the "micro-communities" page of The Bloom's community to join a social impact group in your local city, or create one yourself if you don't see your city represented! 💚 Partnership with The Bloom: We're looking for impactful organizations to partner with The Bloom to bring connections, resources, and opportunities to our global community.
☀️Our global learning community for social impact careers: Joinour fast-growing learning community to connect with +2,000 extraordinary social impact professionals in networking, career fairs, and mentorship events.
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.
💸 Relevant Ventures A purpose venture catalyst focusing on the blind spots of markets. It supports impact entrepreneurs to access funding. Relevant Ventures offers several types of support, one of them is the Investment Readiness Academy, which aims to empower the businesses that matter with core entrepreneur and financial skills. Relevant Ventures supports businesses all over Europe and East Africa, and they would love to be able to support financially the impact businesses and the great entrepreneurs of The Bloom's community too. 🌈The Queer Republic A borderless nation of queers and allies that advance the rights and lives of the LGBTQ x in Africa and across the globe. We are rebuilding our African queer legacy and reuniting queers across Africa and the globe.
🤎The Treasure Box We have created an online curated collection of non-formal educational tools, materials and resources for the promotion of migrants women's participation in democratic life in Europe, in the form of a "Treasure Box". These treasures were created in partnership with migrants women and their communities.
♻️Coin For Change Aims to bridge the technology and finance gap between the public and private sectors. We utilise web3 and new technology innovations to bring humanitarian and development organisations into the 21st century. While the private sector has thrived using blockchain, AI and transformative technologies, the public sector has been left behind. Coin For Change aims to change this. Providing budget consultations and integrations for public sector organisations allows increased efficiency and higher social impact.
🦋Reproductive Autonomy Rebecca's website shares resources to enable all people to make informed reproductive decisions for themselves and to advocate for and support others in their reproductive decisions.
🌳People and Planet First For the first time, there is an affordable and accessible verification system for impact led enterprises around the world and it directly links to opportunities for these enterprises to get more business from B2B, B2G and B2C supply chains. It is distributive and regenerative in nature rather than extractive. 🌊Water Air Food Awards WAFA aims to promote and award sustainable organisations that have come up with innovative solutions in terms of having clean water, air and food. Since Bloom has a global community of amazing social impact organisations, we feel that through Bloom we will be able to make meaningful connections and also identify organisations that has been sustainable and innovative in terms of providing clean air, food and water!
👀 BONUS: peek into some of the organizations of more phenomenal social impact organizations you can meet in The Bloom community:
Sisters in Climate: A community for all African women wanting to make more eco-conscious choices. Our discussions & events focus on fashion, food, farming and flowers
Politics4Her: Youth-led Intersectional feminist digital platform and global movement advocating for inclusive participation of young women and girls in politics.
Bridging Gaps Fellowship: We provide Microloans for Entrepreneurs from the Global South to Establish their Own Businesses.
☀️Small NGOs & bootstrapped organizations: we can't wait to spotlight your work! The Bloom team will post under "Announcements" channel on Tuesday October 30 for the next wave of newsletter spotlights – register here to log-in to the community.
water your soul
Inspiring newsletters, documentaries, social media, and much more; we find media to brighten and enlighten your spirit.
Curated collection of Global South/Global North resources, programs, events – because there are many opportunities to branch out, beyond a traditional 9 – 5 jobs.
"I hopped on an hour-long interview with Kong Man Jing, the co-founder and host of Singaporean science channel Just Keep Thinking. These articles talk about making biodiversity and sustainability accessible + designing TikTok reels that get as much as 3M views. It's a great resource if you're looking at using short-form video content to talk about complex concepts."
📚For +60 peer-reviewed social impact resources across disciplines from gender equality to diversity & inclusion, head over to the Collaborative Library channel of our learning community, and find out how you can contribute to the peer-led digital library of social impact resources!
💸 Fellowships, Prizes, & Grants
Global USD 1 – 5 million Grants for Women’s Health: USD 250 million global open call launched by Pivotal Ventures that will fund organizations around the world that are improving women’s mental and physical health. Each awardee will receive flexible funding between USD 1 million and 5 million. Eligible organizations serve women and have a record of improving women’s mental or physical health.
Harvard's Aspire Leaders Program: Welcomes low-income, first-generation college students and recent graduates around the world to participate in a free online immersive leadership journey including professional skills training, an exclusive course designed and delivered by Harvard faculty, and interactive seminars led by world-class.
Anzisha Prize for Young African Entrepreneurs: A three-year fellowship for young African entrepreneurs between 15 and 22 years old to equip young people with tools and resources to run successful businesses and celebrate their entrepreneurial endeavors.
She Wins Rapid Response Fund: Accepting applications on a rolling basis with no set deadline for local women-led groups in several countries, providing essential support to women peacebuilders.
Deutsche Welle Journalism Traineeship: Aspiring journalists worldwide can apply for this bilingual program offering a comprehensive 18-month training program designed to develop the skills needed for the future of journalism.
Growing Justice Fund for USA: Grant funding, aimed at empowering community-led organizations, Tribal Nations, and coalitions working to create equitable food systems. The grants will provide critical support for initiatives that advance food justice and foster the leadership of Tribal, Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, and immigrant communities.
The Bloom is more than a newsletter: we're a global movement. We partner with social impact organizations committed to the movement, and mobilizing resources to underserved communities 🤎
Applicants across the globe looking for jobs in data and product development: we highly recommend you check out two jobs from our partner Trase 🎉 You'll find them in our job board below in EUROPE under Sweden but they sponsor visa, so anyone can apply!! ....dags att lära sig svenska 😂🇸🇪 Trase is a holistically diverse team thanks to the leadership of their phenomenal Director of Operations, and The Bloom's go-to partner in the social impact hiring for honest takes on the sector: Rosa Indenbaum. If you're looking to apply to these roles (or create your own 👀) and need insider tips from the hiring manager, head over to "Event Recordings & Summaries" channel of The Bloom's learning community for social impact careers. We've held +3 wonderful events with different members of the Trase team, and The Bloom team prepared curated summaries of the events with insider tips for stand-out applications 📝
Thank you Trase and our network of phenomenal partners at The Bloom, for leading the way in more radical recruitment approaches to support diverse social impact talent 🥰
grow new roots
Social impact job opportunities we love around the world to grow new roots in your career. Employers: reach out to team@readtobloom.com to amplify your roles 💌
AFRICA+ MENA Freelance correspondents based in Lebanon, Syria, or Yemen to report on women and girls – More Her Story 🇲🇬 International expert in Early Childhood Development – The World Bank Education*deadline is in 24hrs but we wanted to include in case it was relevant for our Madagascar bloomers!
🇦🇪 MENA editor – Reuters LATIN AMERICA + CARIBBEAN Freelance correspondent – More Her Story 🇨🇴 Investigador/a para un proyecto sobre el estado de impact corporativo en LATAM – Latimpacto 🇸🇻 Education research consultant – Brookings Institution
If you know others who will love The Bloom's newsletter... Share your unique referral link & win rewards when your friends subscribe! Our team prepared unique career-focused gifts to support your personal and professional growth.
Book Your Spot Now to Get Seen During the Busiest Shopping Season of the Year! Please enable images to see this email. Black Friday & Cyber
Hi all, I've just started reading Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis. I'm about 5 chapters in and so far it's very good! I'll link to it again later if I finish it/
Discover how Osmo's scent teleportation technology is turning smells into shareable digital data, explore the latest AI and robotics breakthroughs, and learn how reframing fear as inexperience can
