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Overview Executive  Director Opportunity The Executive Director of Save The Bay – Narragansett Bay (Rhode Island) will lead a strong, established and growing organization with a passion for the mission to protect and improve Narragansett Bay. The new leader will serve as the fifth Executive Director to lead the 53-year-old environmental advocacy organization in its exciting new chapter. With recently expanded education programs, increased habitat restoration capacity, a strengthened board structure, a highly sustainable financial position, and an exceptionally strong leadership team, the Executive Director will take the reins of this highly functioning organization at a time of major expansion. This is a unique opportunity with a leading environmental organization offering a highly competitive compensation and benefits package. Organization Save The Bay   is a member-supported, volunteer-powered nonprofit organization with a mission...

The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (Equity Fund) is a philanthropic fund dedicated to supporting a multi-state infrastructure of community-based organizations building power to advance an equitable clean energy future. With a proven approach to driving impact and a highly effective set of stakeholders and investors, the Equity Fund is facing a number of exciting opportunities. With the field that the Equity Fund supports growing quickly and public investments in clean energy transition accelerating, the Fund is spinning out of its fiscal sponsorship and establishing a new, independent institution that can meet the needs of the growing and dynamic ecosystem of grassroots organizations and expand their collective impact. Poised for significant growth, the Equity Fund has evolved and is growing its executive leadership structure and operating model to lead effective strategy, systems, and culture for the team. To that end, the Equity Fund invites nominations and applications for...

About Us As a global philanthropy, Climate Breakthrough’s mission is to make an outsized impact in resolving the climate crisis. We do this by supporting extraordinary leaders to pursue their most ambitious, innovative climate endeavors with the Climate Breakthrough Award, a multi-million-dollar, multi-year, flexible grant that empowers our awardees to translate their boldest ideas into transformative climate action that swiftly and justly closes the gap between the world today and a sustainable future. Each year, we select several exceptional strategists from around the world to receive the Climate Breakthrough Award: a US$3 million dollar grant and tailored support over three years to bring visionary strategies from idea to fruition. We believe that many of the most capable leaders have not yet been given sufficient time, space, support, and funding to develop the kind of climate strategies our world desperately needs. Our program is designed to give these brilliant...

The Development Director will lead the development strategy to ensure the sustainable advancement of Just Solutions’ mission. Core responsibilities include: developing a long-term fundraising and donor development strategy to achieve program growth objectives; securing funding to meet or exceed annual budget needs; maintaining and building donor relationships; and developing and overseeing grants management databases and systems and other relevant project management tools to execute fundraising efforts.  Given the urgency of the climate crisis, we have an ambitious plan to scale our leadership voice, reach, and impact. Within our first two years, our budget has increased to nearly $3 million and we anticipate more significant growth moving forward as we transition to an independent 501 c(3) organization. As such, we are searching for a Development Director who has a proven track record of raising and sustaining resources for organizations that are in a rapid period of...

ABOUT THE EQUITY FUND The Climate + Clean Energy Equity Fund (The Equity Fund) is building the multi-state infrastructure and community power needed to end climate change and to create an equitable clean energy future. The Equity Fund is strategically building power by: Investing in the leadership and organizing of diverse communities (Black, Latinx, AAPI, Indigenous people, and communities bearing the brunt of climate change); Engaging voters in these communities through nonpartisan civic engagement campaigns; and Winning climate and clean energy policy solutions that reflect the priorities of communities and advance racial, economic, and environmental justice. Founded in 2016, The Equity Fund is already partnering with organizations in 13 states (Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Virginia), and will expand its reach to additional states in the coming...

Executive Director/ Lead Link Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture The Center for Sustainable and Cooperative Culture (CSCC) is excited to announce an opportunity for a passionate and driven individual with a big vision to work collaboratively towards the broader adoption of sustainable living practices with the goal of creating resilient, empowered, and nurturing communities. The Executive Director/Lead Link will take a lead role in supporting Dancing Rabbit, one of North America’s most well-established ecovillages, by working day to day with creative people of diverse views and skill sets and shepherding a long-term plan for the organization. This opportunity in a rustic, rural, and radically sustainable community environment, is ideal for a committed communitarian or environmentalist looking to work in a values-aligned position; a budding non-profit professional looking to take on more responsibilities; or someone who has always wanted to live in...

About Grad Bag Grad Bag was founded in Scarsdale, NY in 2012 as a small grassroots project with the twofold mission to support college-bound students who have historically received less opportunity and to advance environmental sustainability. This is accomplished through collecting, refreshing, and repackaging lightly used dorm room essentials and distributing them to students to ease the financial impacts of beginning their post-secondary living experiences. Since its founding and under the direction of active and engaged founders and board of directors, Grad Bad has expanded its partnerships to 17 college campuses and more than 20 not-for-profit organizations in New York, Connecticut, and Boston. While operations ceased during the COVID-19 pandemic, the board worked to develop a strategic plan that would become the guiding light for the future of the organization. Grad Bag is welcoming an exciting moment in time in which the Founding Executive Director will step into...

About the Organization At the Pisces Foundation, we believe if we act now and boldly, we can quickly accelerate to a world where people and nature thrive together. We support organizations, advocates, and activists who, working together, are doing what’s necessary to have clean and abundant water, a safe climate, and kids with the environmental know-how to create a sustainable world. By mainstreaming powerful new and equitable solutions, we will spark immediate gains and lasting benefits for people and nature. We know that our Foundation’s vision, of people and nature thriving together, can only be realized in an equitable and just world. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion as a foundation. This summer marks the ten-year anniversary of our first grantmaking. As we celebrate a decade of impact, we are looking ahead to see how we can further accelerate change. In the coming year, we will engage with our trustees and colleagues in the field in deep...

New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services JVN 868-2023-591680 Agency Chief Decarbonization Officer Salary: $160,000.00 – $170,000.00 (Annually)  The Department of Citywide Administrative Services (DCAS) Division of Energy Management (DEM) serves as the hub for emissions reduction and energy management for the City government portfolio. Pursuant to Executive Order 89 of 2021 (Increased Accountability and Transparency to Support Climate Change Mitigation within City Government Operations), DEM on behalf of the City of New York is seeking to hire eight Agency Chief Decarbonization Officers (ACDO) to serve in multiple agencies.  The ACDO will be accountable for directing all efforts to reach their agency’s decarbonization targets established under LL97 of 2019, which mandates that the City achieve 40% emissions reductions by 2025 and 50% reductions by 2030. The ACDO will serve as an executive-level strategist, partnering with agency leadership and staff to...