October 2022: Opportunities & Resources for Job Seekers
We’ve compiled a list of funding opportunities, resources, and gender-affirming networks for nonprofit leaders, social change communicators, and folks passionate about racial equity, tech policy, and reproductive rights.
Funding Opportunities:
Last updated: 10/24/22
The Well Work opened their BauceHaus microgrant applications to support professional development or business/side hustles. They’re selecting 3 winners (2 for $500, 1 for $1000). Find out if you qualify, learn more, and apply here. Applications are due by 11:59pm EST on October 31, 2022.
Parenting for Liberation launched their Care for Caregivers Fund, a wellness fund for Black parents/caregivers to connect with Black healing practitioners of their choice for virtual wellness sessions at no cost to them. Apply here and their team will be in touch by November 2 to let you know what healer you’re matched with.
Freelancers Union and Fiverr launched a Freelancer Wellness Fund for International Freelancer’s Day to aid freelancers and independent workers worldwide. Their partnership aims to put cash directly into freelancers' hands in order to promote the holistic well-being of freelancers across the world.
Rest & Repair Grants for Black women leaders working in the non-profit sector in Washington State. Ten (10) - $100,000 Rest and Repair Grant Awards will be granted to ten (10) Black Women who have made significant contributions to their communities through the nonprofit sector and who reside in Washington State. The purpose of these awards is to allow the recipients to pursue their own personal and professional activities as they continue to make our state a better place to work and live. Applications are due October 18.
The Day One Project Policy Accelerator on Racial Equity and Tech Policy is hosted in partnership between The Kapor Center and the Federation of American Scientists with the goal to help increase talent of color working on tech policy as well as encourage racial justice centered policy proposals across several of their prioritized issue areas. Selected teams will receive $3K honorarium for their work and will receive mentorships. Applications are due October 18 at 11:59pm ET.
Other Gender-Affirming Resources & Networks
The Chisholm Legacy Project launched a BIPOC in Environmental and Climate Justice Database and job board for BIPOC speakers, specialists, job seekers, board members, advisory members, and more. Apply to join the database here.
National Queer & Trans Therapists of Color Network provides a Radical Syllabus for QTpoC as a resource for QTPoC mental health practitioners in support of their practice and for the healing of the greater QTPoC community. This is a living document intended to be used as a tool for discovery, inquiry, development, healing, and liberation and can be utilized by anyone to gain awareness via peer-reviewed academic articles, fiction and non-fiction books, podcasts, documentaries and movies.
The Radical Communicators Network is a network for social justice communicators across a variety of movements, backgrounds, levels of experience, geographies, languages, and political associations. Their network is radicalizing the field to focus on building narrative power by putting people closest to the oppression at the forefront. Join their listserv and/or Facebook Group to stay in the loop of job opportunities, events, and other movement-building opportunities and discussions related to social-change communications.
Trans Empowerment Project is moving the Trans* community out of crisis and into empowerment by focusing on the abolition of white supremacy to ensure that our most marginalized community members, Disabled Queer and Trans* People of Color, can thrive and live their best lives.. They are also one of our community partners at Black Remote She. If you’d like to stay connected with their work and network within their community, join their Facebook Group and/or Discord channel.
Trans* includes folks who are Queer, Transgender, Non-Binary, Two-Spirit, Gender Non-Conforming, and other related identities across the gender spectrum.
The Ohio’s Women Alliance has a Visionary Ohio Worker (VOW) job board, which includes job opportunities at progressive organizations across Ohio that prioritize the leadership of BIPOC and other historically oppressed communities. The VOW Job board centers the fields of Reproductive Justice, health, and rights as well as social justice, relational organizing, healthcare, and other related fields. They are also one of our community members at Black Remote She.
Rad Ops is a professional development Facebook Group group with an explicit justice based framework and approach, with the goal of building collective movement knowledge. This group is for anyone doing operations, administration, finance, events, development, volunteer & intern coordination, and/or the often invisible behind the scenes work in progressive and radical organizations, cooperatives, volunteer groups and businesses.
NPOCUnicorns - People of Color Nonprofit Professionals Facebook Group is dedicated to connected people of color nonprofit professionals.
Work for justice in the digital age is a Facebook Group connecting people looking to find work organizing for justice in the digital age.
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