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Jobs
What: Lower Manhattan Campaign Lead
Who: Open Plans promotes civic engagement for livable streets.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $90-105k
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What: Communications Fellow (PT, Temp); Policy Fellow (PT, Temp)
Who: Open New York is a grassroots, non-profit organization advocating for abundant homes and lower rent.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $20/hr
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What: Religion & Cultural Institutions Consultant
Who: Philadelphia Museum of Art is Philadelphia's art museum, a landmark building, and a world-renowned collection.
Where: Philadelphia, PA
How much: $100k budget
What: Major Gifts Officer
Who: Pioneer Works is an artist and scientist-led nonprofit cultural center.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $95-125K
What: Communications Strategist
Who: New York Civil Liberties Union advances rights to deliver more liberty and justice to more New Yorkers.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $65-79k
What: Archivist
Who: Studio Museum in Harlem is the nexus for artists of African descent locally, nationally, and internationally.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $70-75k
What: Project Manager (Contract, PT)
Who: Democracy Notes is a trade publication and field-support organization in the U.S. democracy space.
Where: Remote
How much: $4,000-6,000/month
What: Business Development Associate
Who: Kounkuey Design Initiative is a community development and design nonprofit.
Where: Los Angeles, CA
How much: $85-110k
What: Political Research Specialist; Sr. Creative Director
Who: Planned Parenthood is the nation’s leading provider and advocate of high-quality, affordable sexual and reproductive health care for all people, as well as the nation’s largest provider of sex education.
Where: Washington DC or New York, NY
How much: $60-65k; $167-172k
What: Program Officer
Who: MacArthur Foundation is an independent foundation committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
Where: Chicago, IL
How much: $120,700
What: Assistant & Associate Editors, The Adams Papers
Who: Massachusetts Historical Society is the nation’s oldest historical society.
Where: Boston, MA
How much: $62-75k
What: Director of Programs
Who: Chicago Cultural Alliance works to connect, promote, and support centers of cultural heritage for a more inclusive Chicago.
Where: Chicago, IL
How much: $70k
What: Operations Coordinator; Ceramics Fabrication Project Manager
Who: Powerhouse Arts is a not-for-profit organization committed to creative expression.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $55-60k; $70-77k
What: Assistant Manager, Digital Media
Who: New York Botanical Garden is museum of plants, a center for learning, and a plant science leader in the Bronx.
Where: Bronx, NY
How much: $60-65k
What: Associate Director of Product Design
Who: Campaign Finance Board is a nonpartisan, independent city agency that empowers New Yorkers to have a greater impact on their elections.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $130-160k
What: Sr. Editor, Research
Who: ProPublica is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Where: Remote (US)
How much: $150-170k
What: Program Associate
Who: Levitt Family Foundation is a national social impact funder at the intersection of music, public space, and community building.
Where: Los Angeles, CA
How much: $25-30/hr
What: Director of Marketing
Who: Poets & Writers is the nation's largest nonprofit organization serving creative writers.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $75k
What: Exhibitions Coordinator
Who: Canyon is a nonprofit arts venue dedicated to the exhibition of time-based media art and performance.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $65-80k
What: Researcher
Who: 1199 SEIU New York is the largest health care union in the country representing over 450,000 hospital, nursing home, home care and human service workers.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $79k-79,500
What: Associate for Resilient Tech
Who: The Engine Room collaborates with human rights defenders, climate advocates and social justice organizers who are using data and technology to advance change for their communities.
Where: Remote
How much: $5,000-6,000/month
What: Associate Manager, Programs & Engagement
Who: Urban Green Council is a nonprofit dedicated to decarbonizing buildings for healthy and resilient communities.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $65-70k
What: Managing Director
Who: American Prison Writing Archive is a growing collection of current writing about the US carceral system by people who have direct experience with it.
Where: Baltimore, MD
How much: $80-90k
What: Sr. Director, Operations & Production
Who: BRIC is a leading arts and media institution whose work spans contemporary visual and performing arts, media, and civic action.
Where: Brooklyn, NY
How much: $110-140k
What: Policy Researcher, Green Economy
Who: UC Berkeley Labor Center conducts research and education on issues related to labor and employment.
Where: Berkeley, CA
How much: $75,600-128,400
What: Research Associate, Presidential Initiatives
Who: Mellon Foundation is a grant making organization that believes that the arts and humanities are where we express our complex humanity.
Where: New York, NY
How much: $125-130k
What: Strategic Communications Consultant (PT)
Who: Center for Civic Design is a nationally-recognized nonprofit working to improve the voter experience through understanding and removing the barriers to participating in elections.
Where: Remote (US)
From Academy Award®-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin and Executive Producers Jane Fonda, Tom Morello, and Rosario Dawson comes Steal This Story, Please!—the new film about the life and work of independent journalist Amy Goodman of Democracy Now! Winner of eight audience awards from major US festivals, this film is a gripping account of the trailblazing journalist whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history. Steal This Story, Please! is now playing in select cities and expanding to over 85 cities this spring. Tickets at stealthisstory.org.
Classifieds
✷ Oral History Intensive in Hudson starts May 22 ✷ We have a few spaces left! Come learn, swim, commune, record, archive, and listen with us from May 22–June 3, 2026 in Hudson, New York. Instructors include Suzanne Snider, Nina Cooke John, Ted Kerr, Koray Duman, Emma Rose Brown, and Enrique Rivera.
✷ Event photography, but make it systems-y ✷ I've been building a systems-first approach to photographing conferences and summits. Real-time selects, metadata, DAMs, approvals, publishing. If you've ever gotten a drive full of files nobody had time to sort through, you know why this matters. Let's compare notes!
✷ Behind on music? Lost on who's touring? Group chats hyping songs you don't know? ✷ Subscribe to Play On, your cheat sheet for music, culture, and what's actually worth a listen. Every issue covers the week's biggest music news, new releases, and who's on tour. Curated, never coded.
✷ Diaries, journals & daybooks ✷ A low-key opportunity to write in community and start (or continue) a journal practice. Each week, we’ll read a diary excerpt from diarists like Eva Hesse and Helen Garner, then write together. $75 for 6 weeks.
✷ The Fluid Career ✷ is a practical guide for how to run a dynamic resilient career during uncertain times. Learn how to create a composition of work that can flex and adapt from seasoned career coach Melissa Wong of Coherence Studio.
✷ EJ Idea Lab–Big Vision. Built to Last. ✷ For purpose-driven leaders and organizations building something that matters. We turn vision into viable models, align mission with revenue, and design systems that hold. Strengthen what you’ve built. Lead with clarity. Let’s talk.
Calls
New Call for Proposals: Brooklyn Public Library PowerUP Business Plan Competition | Deadline: 4/28
PowerUP awards a $20,000, $10,000, and $5,000 cash prize to start a Brooklyn-based business, along with business planning and consulting.
New Funding: 2026 Knight Cities Challenge | Deadline: 4/30
Knight will award up to $200,000 in 1-year projects focused on strengthening local news and information, creating pathways for economic opportunity or cultivating connection through arts, culture and the places that bring people together.
New Call for Submissions: Roost Arts Hudson Valley Exhibition | Deadline: 5/10
Roost Arts Hudson Valley seeks artists whose lives and work are shaped by displacement, exclusion, or precarity, who are speaking from lived experience in today’s America. Accepted works will be exhibited as part of Upstate Art Weekend 2026.
New Residency: Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles Artist in Residence | Deadline: 5/14
This four-month residency is open to emerging and mid-career artists across Los Angeles. The resident will be given a studio in the Quinn Emanuel Los Angeles office and an exhibition will be held to display their works at the end of the residency. The resident will receive $20,000.
New Residency: Michigan Central Art and Newlab Detroit Creative Residency | Deadline: 5/10
The program supports artists, designers, and other creative practitioners developing work at the intersection of art, technology, and society. This year’s program includes areas of focus in Art + Health and Art + Technology. Four fellows will each receive a $30,000 prize.
Call for Pitches: Are.na Annual - Score | Deadline: 4/20
Residency: St. Elmo Artist in Residence at the University of Texas | Deadline: 4/20
Call for Submissions: Cape Cod Compass - At Sea | Deadline: 4/20
Funding: 3pts Artists & Makers Impact Fund | Deadline: 4/27
Funding: Whiting Nonfiction Grant for Works-in-Progress | Deadline: 4/30
Call for Submissions: Journal Journal Volume 2 | Deadline: 4/30
Call for Submissions: Soft Focus Zine Issue 02: "tearjerkers" | Deadline: 5/1
Call for Applications: Carnegie Young Leaders Open Call | Deadline: 5/4
Residency: Dieu Donné Workspace Residency Program | Deadline: 5/15
Residency: Women's Studio Workshop Residencies | Deadline: 5/15, 5/30
Funding: Jonathan and Barbara Silver Foundation 2026 Grant for Writing on Sculpture | Deadline: 5/31
Residency: 2026-27 BRIClab Residencies | Deadline: 6/5
Call for Submissions: CriticalProductive Journal | Deadline: 6/10
Funding: Franklin Furnace XENO PRIZE for Artists’ Books | Deadline: 7/4
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