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fresh soil
Learn about diverse social impact organizations & people leading local change. Every week brings "fresh soil" – inspiration for interesting organizations & people to follow in the social impact world.
Organizations contributing to amplify and support our March 11 festival include Impact Hub, Remote Rebellion, Devex, D-Prize, Letters to Strangers, Tech To The Rescue.
Join a movement for global collaboration in the social impact sector on March 11 📆 Whether you can contribute job search advice, a workshop or wellbeing session, you can "Submit a Collaboration Offer" through The Bloom's collaboration hub. All collaboration offers will go live and active during the festival, here's a sneak peak:
Collaborate on our festival: share a collaboration offer, and explore others on March 11!
Some of our organization partners for the festival contributing extraordinary Collaboration Offers. On March 11 you can move between breakout rooms freely for their sessions:
🕊️"From fundraising to power-building: rethinking how NGOs sustain impact" Natalia Leon For too long, NGOs have positioned themselves as recipients rather than drivers of change. In an era where international aid is shrinking, it’s not just about raising funds—it’s about owning our value, leveraging partnerships, and building financial models that reinforce our power, not our dependence. This session will challenge outdated fundraising narratives and offer bold, practical strategies for NGOs to sustain and scale their impact—not by chasing grants (only) but by reshaping the rules of engagement. Ideal for nonprofit leaders, fundraisers, and social entrepreneurs ready to move beyond survival mode and into strategic, long-term financial resilience. 🕊️"Startup grants for new anti-poverty ventures" D-Prize
D-Prize awards startup grants of up to $20,000 to entrepreneurs launching new anti-poverty orgs. Last mile leadership is needed now more than ever. If you plan to start your own org serving those who live in extreme poverty, check us out and meet us in the breakout room at The Bloom's Collaboration Festival, our next call opens in early April. 🕊️"How to get a remote job" Remote Rebellion The 7 steps to getting a remote job that aligns with your values- by an ex recruiter and remote work expert who's helped hundreds around the world to land their dream remote job.
At Impact Hub Network, we believe entrepreneurial action and innovation unlock a just and sustainable society. That’s why we’ve curated the Impact Gift Pack for the Collaboration Festival—designed to inspire, connect, and support both entrepreneurs and partners on their impact journey. Whether you're building a venture or supporting those who do, this pack is filled with tools, resources, and opportunities to help drive meaningful change.
The Tech To The Rescue team will match you with tech companies ready to donate their expertise. Right now, $43 billion in critical social interventions are at stake—but technology can help you adapt, evolve, and emerge stronger. At the Collaboration Festival, learn how to access their powerful digital tools designed to diversify your funding sources right away, as well as participate in their community for further matchmaking.
🕊️"Mental health scholarships – funding for advocacy, education & treatment" Letters to Strangers Win from $11,000 in scholarships for mental health treatment, education, and advocacy. This opportunity is open to applicants worldwide, ages 13+, and members of the Bloom network receive a weighted entry boost for the Changemaker Scholarship. Applications close April 1st.
📆RSVP for March 11 USAID Global Collaboration Festival: This event is open to public, so please share the link with friends, family, colleagues – anyone looking for support across funding, jobsearch, and genuine connections in social impact.
water your soul
Inspiring newsletters, documentaries, social media, and much more; we find media to brighten and enlighten your spirit.
Pavilhão, a short documentary on the birth of samba schools in Brazil.
🇧🇷From the samba schools of Rio de Janeiro, this short documentary shows a rich spiritual tradition rooted in Afro-Brazilian identity.
branch out
There's countless opportunities to branch out: here we share global South/Global North fellowships, tools, and events.
For start-ups in emerging economies using cutting edge tech to develop solutions that improve the health, wellness and socio-economic participation of women and girls.
Youth4Climate Global Solutions 💸USD 30,000 Funding An international innovation challenge designed for young individuals and youth-led organizations for funding and capacity-building. Resilience Fund by Mama Cash 💸Long-term, flexible funding
For self-led feminist organizations working to create lasting change, offering core financial support to ambitious feminist initiative.
📆Social Impact Events
Tuesday, March 18 at 2:00 PM GMT-3
Gender justice careers: insights from experts in the field
This event features Bloomers with rich experiences in gender justice work, ready to inspire and help you grow. Meet leaders in international relations, grassroots mobilization, law, and philanthropy. You’ll leave with fresh insights, new perspectives, and meaningful connections with people interested in the gender justice field. RSVP now to sta...
The course is introductory and inter-disciplinary. It aims to provide participants with an understanding of international human rights norms, as well as the systems for protecting these at international, regional and national level.
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The Bloom is supported by wonderful social impact organizations committed to mobilizing & inspiring resources to underserved communities.
Bloomers, meet D-Prize, a transformative global competitions supporting emerging leaders tackle extreme poverty.
D-Prize is a global competition that supports bold social entrepreneurs to launch NGOs or social ventures that can distribute proven poverty interventions to thousands, maybe even millions, of people. Over the course of 2025, you will have the chance to read the real stories of D-Prize winners, and the way their $20,000 was the critical ingredient in their scale and impact.
D-Prize Entrepreneur Profile: how seed funding support is a critical ingredient 💸
Meet Charlot Magayi, founder of Mukuru Clean Stoves.
Across Africa, 700 million people use traditional cookstoves, which emit harmful chemicals and lack safeguards. Mukuru Clean Stoves are different.
Mukuru Clean Stoves is a Kenyan energy company that sells clean cookstoves. The founder, Charlot Magayi, launched in 2016, motivated to work on this problem after her daughter was burned by a traditional stove. She initially applied for a D-Prize in 2017 but was not selected. After refining her approach, Charlot applied again in 2018 and was awarded a D-Prize startup grant.
“Before D-Prize, this was just a business to sustain me. After, I realized this could scale across Africa.”
Before winning D-Prize Charlot attempted to raise outside capital from other sources, but was unsuccessful. That changed after receiving D-Prize's support. Two years after her $20K startup grant, Charlot raised $600K in follow-on funding to distribute 36K cookstoves. Since then, she has been named an Echoing Green Fellow and won an Earthshot Prize from Prince William.
Today, eight years after winning her first support from D-Prize, Mukuru has distributed 600K cookstoves reaching 3 million people.
Get an alert when the D-Prize call opens in early April, and on March 11 at our Collaboration Festival, come meet members of the D-Prize team: Will Snider, Senior Operations Lead at D-Prize and Titilope Adedokun, Competition Manager at D-Prize.
community garden
Did you know The Bloom has a digital community & app? Here's a brief round-up of exchanges & bloomers we're proud to spotlight this week in the community.
"I’ve been in social justice spaces since I was 16 years old, I noticed that we learn to critique existing structures very well, and we have to respond to crises in order to survive.
What we lack are specific, compelling visions for flourishing futures that can tangibly help us advance equity across cultural contexts now. If we can’t see it, how can we create it? In Playshops for Flourishing Futures, I use foresight games and group activities to equip changemakers across sectors and issue areas with bold and imaginative, long-term and solution-oriented thinking.
I hosted the first two Playshops in India in February, directly reaching 15 LGBTQI+ leaders in India and 25 mental health leaders in Singapore. Multiple participants reported feeling hopeful and inspired to take action after the Playshop. This summer and autumn, I plan to take the Playshop to grassroots youth and LGBTQIA+ collectives in small towns, to build their capacity and support them in bringing their visions for equitable futures to life."
🎉Celebrating new social impact champions in the community
Marion Osieyo
Environmentalist creating futures for human, cultural and ecological flourishing.
I push philanthropy to rethink power, invest with intention, & embrace innovation that serves real communities. I'm a sourdough baker & solve Rubik's Cubes.
Dean is a dynamic leader working in the social impact sector in Uganda, mentoring and expanding the knowledge, skills, abilities and attitudes of Young leaders.
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