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Senior Program Officer, Midwest Climate & Energy
Location: Minneapolis, MN, USA
Salary: 156,560
Closing date: 11/01/2024
The McKnight Foundation (McKnight, Foundation) is seeking nominations and applications for the position of Senior Program Officer within the Midwest Climate & Energy (MC&E) program. The MC&E program is building incredible momentum in advancing bold climate solutions across the region and beyond. This includes new and expanded leadership (including the Program Director, a new Director of Strategic Climate Initiatives role, and a leaderful team), exciting grantmaking portfolios, partnerships that will move the needle on climate in the years ahead, and an increased institutional commitment to achieving the highest expression of McKnight’s mission at the intersection of climate action and racial equity. The team is committed to innovative, systems change approaches to grantmaking that leverage partnerships and values-based practices in order to support bold action and measurable impact in the climate crisis.
ABOUT MCKNIGHT
The McKnight Foundation, a Minnesota-based family foundation, advances a more just, creative, and abundant future where people and planet thrive. Established in 1953, the McKnight Foundation is deeply committed to advancing climate solutions in the Midwest; building an equitable and inclusive Minnesota; and supporting the arts and culture in Minnesota, neuroscience, and global food systems.
The Midwest Climate and Energy (MC&E) program aims to take bold and urgent action on the climate crisis by reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the region and advancing an equitable clean energy transition. Using a systems change lens, the program focuses on four key sectoral pathways: transforming the energy system, decarbonizing buildings, decarbonizing transportation, and supporting working lands. The Climate program also supports a cross-programmatic strategy focused on strengthening democratic participation and civic engagement. Following the passage of historic policies at the state and federal levels in recent years, the MC&E program is focused on ensuring equitable implementation and building effective climate solutions throughout the Midwest to benefit all communities.
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Environmental Grants Data Research Consultant
Location: Remote
Rate: $22/hour
Closing Date: 11/03/2024
The Environmental Grant Research Consultant will work with EGA’s Tracking the Field Team to collect, research, code and input grants data into an online searchable database. This role also supports the creation of the Tracking the Field report series and EGA’s other custom data analysis projects. This is an excellent opportunity for someone interested in exploring a wide span of different environmental issues, understanding the key players in the sector, and diving deep into the trends in environmental philanthropy.
About Environmental Grantmakers Association
The Environmental Grantmakers Association (EGA) is the “big tent” of environmental philanthropy. We are a community made up of over 200 foundations spanning North America and the globe, that convene to practice just philanthropy in support of people and the planet. In 2022, EGA members gave a record high of $2.7 billion in funding to environmental issues.
About Tracking the Field
Tracking the Field (TTF) is a research program at the Environmental Grantmakers Association, with the purpose to deepen understanding of trends, challenges, and critical needs in environmental philanthropy. Started in 2007, TTF now covers over 180,000 grants totaling $22 billion in giving dollars, with over 15,000 being added annually. This data is maintained in a secure searchable online database. The data provides in-depth, historical analyses of environmental giving trends and helps funders see how their grantmaking fits into the larger ecosystem of funding. TTF offers data services at multiple levels, including the searchable database, Tracking the Field reports, and custom data services at the request of members and partners.
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Program Associate
Location: New York, NY (Hybrid)
Salary: $70,000-$73,000
Closing date: 10/11/2024
Under the supervision of the Proteus Fund's Vice President of Programs (VPP), the Program Associate provides critical operational, logistical, and administrative support to ensure efficient completion of the VPP’s objectives, including supporting all aspects of the VPP’s projects, internal program development, external fundraising and thought leadership efforts. In order to understand the roles and responsibilities of the Program Associate, applicants must first understand the primary functions of the Vice President for Programs.
ABOUT PROTEUS FUND
Proteus Fund connects philanthropy to the frontlines of social justice. We strive to advance the interconnected goals of racial, gender, queer and disability justice and an inclusive, fully representative democracy. To do our work effectively and with significant impact, Proteus Fund creates dynamic relationships between progressive philanthropists, movement leaders, and other allies that go far beyond transactional grantmaking. Our trusted position among funders and field actors enables us to support, both through collaborative grantmaking and other efforts, a broad array of strategies to achieve social justice victories. Our donor collaboratives are best-in-class models for bridging responsive philanthropy and cutting-edge social justice movements for deeper impact, aligning resources with critical needs, and shaping strategy alongside our partners. Through our fiscal sponsorship program, Proteus Fund partners with initiatives that play a powerful role in the larger ecosystem for social change, providing them with tailored and comprehensive organizational support.
To date, Proteus Fund, and its affiliated 501c4 organization, the Proteus Action League, have distributed over $300 million in grants and provided other essential tools to support activists, advocates, networks, coalitions, and issue-specific campaigns at the local, state, and national level. Proteus Fund has offices in New York City and metro Boston. Our staff is based across the entire United States.
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