by aimee | Sep 6, 2021 | Funding Opportunities
Mosaic is a national grantmaking initiative strengthening the field-wide movement infrastructure that supports people working to ensure clean air and water, a safe climate, healthy and just communities for all, and thriving natural systems. By supporting movement infrastructure – vibrant connections and indispensable shared tools across the environmental field – Mosaic seeks to equip organizations and advocates to achieve the most important environmental victories.
In this second annual RFP, Mosaic will distribute $6M to fund projects that advance one or more of six types of field-wide movement infrastructure: communications, leadership development, advocacy tools & training, data & information, relationships & trust, and philanthropic innovation. Projects must be collaborative by design, engage and benefit multiple stakeholders, and create shared tools that are widely beneficial to movement members as opposed to narrowly focused on one or a small number of organizations.
Mosaic also welcomes proposals that advance other infrastructure needs beyond those outlined in our areas of focus. Letters of inquiry are due by Friday, September 10, 2021, at 5:00 pm PST. For more information on this grant opportunity, please see below and our RFP & FAQ.
http://mosaicmomentum.org/rfp2021/
by aimee | Sep 6, 2021 | Funding Opportunities
funding opportunity – offering from £1,000 to £10,000 of National Lottery funding to support communities across the UK to take action on climate change.Together for Our Planet information sessions
To help answer any questions groups may have about the Together for Our Planet funding programme, including the criteria and what we are hoping to fund, we will be holding two information webinars. To attend a webinar, please sign up ahead of the event.
- Tuesday 7 September, 11am
- Tuesday 21 September, 11am
Area
UK-wide
Suitable for
Voluntary or community organisations
Funding size
£1,000 to £10,000
Total available
£2.5 million
Application deadline
5pm on 18 November 2021.
https://www.tnlcommunityfund.org.uk/funding/programmes/together-for-our-planet
by aimee | Sep 6, 2021 | Funding Circle
Book your place now to be part of one of the largest funding events in North Yorkshire!
- How do you create long term funding sustainability for your group or organisation?
- Hear from key funders about what they want from applications, what projects they support and practical tips to help you get that grant!
- Understand the changing funding landscape to enable your group to build long-term financial resilience.
- Take part in discussion panels relating to community buildings; mental health; sport and funding in the future.
Date and time: Thursday 30 September 10am – 4.30pm, held on Zoom
Registration fee: £5 per person (inc. VAT) for the full dayWho should attend: Community groups, voluntary sector organisations and strategic leaders in North Yorkshire
Bookings are now open, so choose your seminar sessions and secure your place.
by aimee | Aug 31, 2021 | Journal
Mapping – a follow up
On Open Data Day, March 6th Luis and Aimee hosted an openspace event to talk about all things mapping for the permaculture community.
Three main topics emerged:
- (How) can mapping help connect permaculture communities / allied network?
- Knowing Ourselves, Increasing our Collective Potential – Proposal from Andy Goldring: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1W6-AAo-hsQmoUFv8F6fwYbDvbvumscpIdqJFSXWyJvI/edit?usp=sharing
- Sharing tools for various types of mapping
If you are interested to get to know more about the sessions, you can have a look around this miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lYCFU2U=/ password mapping11
As a result from this session, different initiatives have emerged (some progressing faster than others):
- The permaculture colab website now includes an Allied Movements page which is a small step in the direction to make all the good projects at play visible
- The digital circle is looking to find and test a good [add function e.g. communications, mapping..] platform to connect the colab ecosystem with other networks
- Andy’s proposal is ripe to be picked up and worked on – should you feel called to it please do come forward and we’ll help you to help permaculture!
If you’re interested in collecting, curating and making sense from data on the movement of movements, the next MAPATHON: Mapping Hackathon 2021 will be held on Sunday, October 17, 2021, for 24 hours everywhere. Book your place here: https://opencollective.com/colab-digital-circle/events/mapathon-mapping-hackathon-2021-88a863b4
by aimee | Aug 17, 2021 | Openings
We are collaborating with Ray Milidoni of the Soil Learning Center to offer integrated exchanges with the Permaculture CoLab’s Project-Based Learning programme.
As an invitation to our network, Ray is offering any of these courses for free to people who are keen to road test the user interface and experience (UI/UX). Courses can be downloaded so you can take them with you offline throughout your day.
Side-note for the micro-enterprise designers in our community: Ray is keen to collaborate on a platform for co-farming (sharing land for producing crops), and this could be developed as the ‘project-based’ component to this information sharing platform.
If you are interested in taking one of these courses (enrolling before September 20th), please submit the form below and we’ll be in touch with your access details.
Brief
Ray’s team are looking for the following information:
- How is the ‘cart’ experience? (Using our discount code, you will check out a $0 course)
- How intuitive is it to navigate this site? Anything confusing or difficult to find?
- Do you find notifications too much, too few, or just right?
- What features are missing, which would really make this awesome for you?
- And of course: Bugs!
Requirements
It’s preferable that beta testers are comfortable using Loom or a similar screen-recording software to make short videos describing the experience, what isn’t working, what you would change, etc.
If you aren’t able to do so, you must at least be able to screenshot the window.
There are no other entry requirements.
After you submit, a member of our team will be in touch with your discount code and details about where to log your feedback.
