Members Only: June 2025

Coming Up Next: Events & Opportunities

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Member Resources

• Submit events to our Public Events Calendar
• Submit jobs, internships, and volunteer opportunities to the Green Jobs Board

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Stay Tuned:

• July 24 – July Green Drinks with Groundwork Ohio River Valley and Ocotillo Herbals
• Updates on the 25 Communities Project
• Save the Date: Wasted Food Summit, October 29, 2025

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In Case You Missed It

Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit

June 5, 2025 – The Midwest Regional Sustainability Summit successfully brought together over 600 leaders from businesses, startups, government, academia, and nonprofits to explore this year’s theme of “Sustainable Stories,” featuring keynote speaker Dr. Lyla June Johnston and 100 speakers across 20 breakout sessions. The event, hosted by Green Umbrella at Sharonville Convention Center, provided a dynamic platform for celebrating climate solutions, forging new partnerships, and strengthening connection and collaboration toward a more resilient future.

Climate Action Fellowship Training and Summer Projects

The 2025 Climate Action Fellowship has successfully launched with 7 professionals and students joining 5 host cities across the region to complete projects in capacity assessment, water, climate planning, energy benchmarking and more. Participating cities include returning partners in Milford and Oxford, alongside new participants Newport, Fairfield, and Hamilton County. This Green Umbrella program empowers local governments through a 10-week fellowship model that provides guidance, training, and dedicated fellows to drive meaningful climate action progress on the ground.

Climate Safe Neighborhood Advocacy Training

June 17, 2025 – Building on last year’s training with updated strategies and approaches, the session at Cincinnati Zoo’s TreeTops event space provided CSN Community Advisory Group leaders with practical tools for effectively advocating on behalf of their communities. This training session, led by Groundwork Ohio River Valley, Ohio Environmental Council and Green Umbrella, focused on building the storytelling capacity of local advocates. Particularly in ensuring they can sculpt their own story about environmental issues and opportunities in their own communities, and then identify possible venues to share their story and advocate for action–one example being how to share personal stories at local government proceedings. Stay tuned for future trainings!

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Funding & Grant Opportunities

Temper of the Times Foundation

Recognizing that organizations working to protect the environment have limited access to paid media, Temper of the Times Foundation provides funds to underwrite advertising designed to promote the conservation and restoration of native wildlife, plants, and ecosystems in the United States.

PNC Foundation

The PNC Foundation supports a variety of nonprofit organizations with a special emphasis on those that work to achieve sustainability and touch a diverse population, in particular, those that support early childhood education and/or economic development.

More opportunities & resources:

• Greater Oxford Community Foundation
• Greater Cincinnati Foundation
• Trails Capacity Program

More funding opportunities can always be found at Green Umbrella’s Member Funding and Technical Assistance Tracker.

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