👋 Hello and welcome to new subscribers Tim, Maressa, and Kathryn. So excited to have each of you here!
This edition is mostly about new Future Community jobs. A bunch of new interesting roles spotted down below ⤵️ but don't feel like you have to skip the rest.
Growing lists and newsletters
Join us at the next Newsletter Nerd Club on Wednesday, June 24th. We'll be talking about newsletters for nature documentary lovers.
Just kidding (though maybe that's not a bad newsletter idea).
We're prepping some questions, tips, and how-tos on list growth. Would love to get your voice in the conversation and help get your questions answered.
Newsletter Nerd Club is at noon Eastern on the 24th. We don't record these because it's intended to be a conversational space for questions, ideas, and sharing challenges. We share notes back with folks along with any slides, links, resources.
If you do have a favorite nature show we can talk about that, too.
Claude Corps and big tech's god complex
I've seen a bunch of notes about Anthropic's launch of Claude Corps the last couple days. Though frankly not as much chatter as I'd expect for a big AI in nonprofits thing given that these are kinda my communities. To summarize the announcement:
We’ll teach 1,000 fellows how to use Claude well, match them with nonprofits across America, and pay them to spend a year—full-time, in-person—helping host organizations to advance their missions.
These are 12 month fellowships for anyone over 18 with under 2 years of work experience. Anthropic will pay the $85,000 salary and offer training and mentorship. They say 400 organizations will host fellows this coming year.
400 fellows at $85k a year is $34 Million. Add admin, training and more and Anthropic is putting a lot into this.
Good will come from this no doubt. But here's the thing. Plugging a one-year FTE into a nonprofit isn't like coding a new feature into your product. It's going to be messy for most of these fellows and the organizations involved. And what happens on day 366?
I want to say this from a place of love and constructive criticism: The relationship between nonprofits and tech companies has always had broken power dynamics. Tech's relationships with nonprofits usually come from a place of patronage and are grounded in their belief that "we do real work and know what's best for you."
This is going to be tough for most folks involved and organizations should be prepared for the costs to their budget, culture, workflows and more.
Bright Ideas
The far right is winning the attention war. Here’s how we can beat them. For better or worse you can't get people to think or do much if you can't get or keep their attention. Richard Roaf at VideoRev (and a crew of colleagues) have smart plans for getting that attention at a much bigger scale. See also the webinar they're hosting. More in Events and Training below.
With Who can we trust about AI? Lex Roman offers up an invaluable service to anyone looking for non-hype / non-salesy / non-techbro talk about AI. They break the list into a few categories: journalists, academics, tech-makers, and authors. I'll add a couple other folks I trust who post good insights useful to people in and around nonprofits. These are all LinkedIn profiles (sorry/not sorry): Jed Miller (digital strategist currently a Non-Resident Fellow at Accountability Lab), Michelle Shevin (Principal at Future Preservation Society and formerly at Ford Foundation), and Beth Kanter (who wrote a book on AI and nonprofits).
Sam Pressler spoke with Ian Marcus Corbin, philosopher and author of To Arrive Where We Started, over at Connective Tissue. This conversation probably won't help you raise more money. But it's time well spent if you want to think on how we're thinking and doing belonging and collective care.
Are AI animal videos terrible? Or do they just give more people needed access to nature? More the former than the latter in my opinion. Read more on the subject from Sabrina Imbler. (btw Imbler's book How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures is wondrous)
Events and Training
- From viral content to narrative infrastructure: How movements can build power is happening from 1-2pm BST on Wednesday, July 8th.
- Donor Organizing 101 Summer Camp. Applications open until June 21.
Future Community Jobs
These are jobs spotted in the last few days. The full Future Community job list is always on and always fresh.
Audience, content, journalism and news roles
- Audience Editor : The Current [Lafayette, LA]
- Assistant or Associate Editor : The Paris Review [New York City] ⏱️ June 18
Communications
- VP of Strategic Communications : Constructive Dialogue Institute [Remote in the US]
- Communications Coordinator : Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press [Washington, DC]
- Communications Manager : Business Council for Sustainable Energy [Washington, DC]
- Communications Officer : MIT Climate & Sustainability Consortium [Boston]
- Associate Director of Communications : Urban Design Forum [New York City]
- Communications Manager : BITE: Building Impact Through Eaters, [Remote in the US]
Nonprofit organizations
- Creator Video Lead : More Perfect Union [Remote in the US]
- Manager, Regional Mobilization : Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) [Remote in the US] ⏱️ July 9
- Chief Operating Officer : Data for Progress [Remote] ⏱️ July 3
- Chief of Staff to the CEO : Hey Jane [Remote in CA, CO, IL, MA, MD, NJ, NY, OR, WA]
- Managing Director of Policy and Research : SEEC Institute [Washington, DC]
- California State Organizing Director : Techtonic Justice [Remote in California] ⏱️ July 1
- Chief of Staff to the President : League of Conservation Voters [Washington, DC]
- Senior Managing Director, Energy and Environment and Policy Analyst, Conservation Policy : Center for American Progress [Washington, DC] ⏱️ June 30
- Executive Director : Clean and Healthy California [Sacramento] ⏱️ July 6
- Chief Executive Officer : DataKind [Remote in the US]
- Assistant Director of Digital Media and Partnerships : SEIU [Washington, DC / Remote in the US]
- Community Organizer Connecticut and Community Organizer Maine: Slingshot [Remote in Connecticut and Remote in New Hampshire or Southern Maine] ⏱️ June 30
- Executive Director : Friends of Tryon Creek [Portland, OR] ⏱️ July 13
- Executive Director : Columbia Land Trust [Vancouver, WA] ⏱️ July 6
Fundraising and Development
- Chief Development Officer : Mercy for Animals [Remote in the US]
- Major Gifts Officer : Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) [New York City]
- Development Manager : City Bureau [Chicago] ⏱️ June 23
- Digital Strategist : Parents for Climate [Sydney / Remote in Australia] ⏱️ June 30
- Director of Development and Communications : Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC) [Remote in the US] ⏱️ July 15
Foundations and Philanthropy
Nothing new. Here are a couple we shared earlier this week. More on the full list.
- Managing Director, External Relations : Freedom Fund [New York City / Remote in the US] ⏱️ July 1
- Manager, Program Communications : U.S. Energy Foundation [Remote in the US] ⏱️ June 19
Agencies, data, politics, products & more
- Senior UX/UI Designer (6 month contract) : Teal Media [Remote in the US]
- Communications and Business Development Manager : Potrero Group [Remote]
- Senior Engineer, Digital Products : National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) [Remote]
Hey. Ted here. I run Bright+3 where we give changemakers the ideas, inspiration, and tools to create content that builds stronger communities.
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