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Special Edition: Fuel for Weaving
Last week to apply: Want to inspire more people to be weavers?
Have we got an opportunity for you! If you have a passion for weaving your community, want to help create a nation of weavers, and are interested in growing as a speaker, you should become a Weave speaker.
The Weave Speakers Bureau provides you with training, puts you in a peer group of other speakers for support, and works to get you on stages large, small, and virtual to share your experience and insights. The Bureau started this year with 20 speakers and 85% have already benefited from speaking engagements.
You’ll join a cohort of 8-10 new speakers, enjoy special training, and have access to 1-1 coaching to prepare for talks. Applications are due on Wednesday, September 13 at 11:59pm ET and could take as little as 30 minutes to complete. To learn more about what to expect and how to apply, click here.
And if you have been attending our Becoming a Great Speaker workshop series, our next workshop “Know your message” will take place on Wednesday, September 20th. This session will help you clarify and sharpen your core message, and establish yourself as a credible messenger. If you haven’t done so yet, you can register here.
Fellowship of $100k for community leaders in MN, SD, or ND
If you are a weaver living in Minnesota, South Dakota, or North Dakota, and are at least 24 years old, this fellowship might be for you. The Bush Fellowships are looking to support up to 24 accomplished leaders with extraordinary track records who are ready to take their efforts to the next level and have even greater impact with and across communities.
Fellows are selected each year and receive a grant of $100,000 to fund their leadership plan. Fellowships can last anywhere between 12 and 24 months. Applications are due on September 21, 2023.
Operational grants for organizations rooted in their community
The Clif Family Foundation is looking to support small- to mid-sized organizations working to strengthen our food system, enhance equitable community health outcomes, or safeguard our environment and natural resources. They are particularly looking for organizations that are deeply rooted in their communities, like all weaver organizations are. The grant are to support everyday operations and the amounts vary based on scope, but average $7,000. Apply by October 1, 2023.
Grants for nonprofits and K-12 schools for environmental education projects
If you are weaving through an environmentally-focused project that has an educational component, like a community garden or a preservation project, and operate in VA, SC, CT, or certain counties in MD, GA, ID, NC, OH, RI, UT, WV, WY, and WI, you could get up to a $50,000 grant to support your work. Nonprofit organizations and public and private K-12 schools are eligible to apply. Apply by September 30, 2023.
We originally intended to skip this week's newsletter. However, in the past weeks we'd received several requests from weavers asking us to include more resources to fuel their weaving, so we created this special edition. If you'd like us to do special editions more often, let us know! Reply to this email with your comments. See you next week,
Gabriel Plata
Newsletter editor
