Opportunities
Opportunities may be grants, stipends, fellowships, free or subsidized training, or in-kind services in support of local journalism efforts. View opportunities with applications open now | View opportunities with applications accepted on a rolling basis
Inasmuch Foundation Grants
Grant from Inasmuch Foundation
Inasmuch Foundation administers an open request cycle each spring and fall for all focus areas: Journalism, Education, Human Services and Community. The foundation’s summer cycle is invitation only. The foundation … Last updated February 26, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: August 15, 2023 | Recurring
Mary G. Hager Memorial Grant
Grant from Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources
Mary Hager was the very first member of IJNR’s Board of Trustees, and served until her death in 2020. Mary was a versatile freelance writer who retired from Newsweek magazine … Last updated February 26, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: April 14, 2023 | Recurring
Indigenous Reporting Grant
Grant from Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources
Across North America, Indigenous communities are often intimately involved in complex natural resource issues. Whether it’s addressing the realities of sea level rise, fighting to protect water quality and quantity, … Last updated February 26, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: April 14, 2023 | Recurring
Diversity Fellowships
Fellowship up to $1,700 from Investigative Reporters & Editors
The Diversity Fellowships are funded by the Philip L. Graham Fund, the IRE Diversity Development Fund and individual donors. The goal of the fellowships is to increase the diversity of … Last updated February 26, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: April 3, 2023 | Recurring
Cross-field collaboration: Apply for a pilot grant to support civic science journalism
Grant up to $15,000 from Center for Cooperative Media
The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University is delighted to announce a new grant opportunity in partnership with Rita Allen Foundation. The project aims to accelerate civic science journalism cross-field collaborations in the … Last updated February 26, 2023
Maynard 200 Fellowship
Fellowship, Training from Maynard Institute
The Maynard 200 Fellowship provides professional development training and year-long mentorship for leaders, storytellers, frontline editors and managers, and media entrepreneurs of diverse backgrounds. Fellows benefit from cutting-edge curricula designed and delivered … Last updated February 26, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: March 31, 2023 | Recurring
New Mexico Local News Accelerator
Fellowship from New Mexico Local News Fund
The New Mexico Local News Fund is supporting another round of grants to support diverse local newsrooms in the state and help them reach financial sustainability through the New Mexico Local … Last updated February 26, 2023
Gomma Photography Grant
Grant from Gomma Photography
The Gomma Photography Grant is a grant contest tailored to fund and support photographers working in various genre. Begun in 2014, the Gomma Grant has quickly acquired a reputation for being ethical … Last updated February 26, 2023
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Light Work Grants in Photography
Grant up to $3 from Light Work
Light Work is pleased to announce the 2021 Light Work Grants in Photography competition. Light Work began offering grants to CNY artists in 1975 to encourage the production of new … Last updated February 22, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: April 1, 2023 | Recurring
Magnum Foundation Fellowship
Fellowship up to $6,000 from Magnum Foundation
The Magnum Foundation Fellowship offers mentorship and stipends to early-career practitioners who are at a critical moment in their development as photographers. This fellowship is designed for New York City-based … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting
Award up to $3,000 from Council for the Advancement of Science Writing
CASW established the Victor Cohn Prize for Excellence in Medical Science Reporting in 2000. Given annually, the prize seeks to honor a writer for a body of work published or … Last updated February 22, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: June 30, 2023 | Recurring
Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship
Fellowship from Stand Together Fellowships
The year-long Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship is for early-career journalists who are aspiring future leaders in the industry. As a finalist for the fellowship, you’ll have the opportunity to … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Ida B. Wells Fellowship
Fellowship up to $25 from Type Media Center
The Ida B. Wells Fellowship, founded in 2016, promotes diversity in journalism by helping to create a pipeline of investigative reporters who come from underrepresented backgrounds, and bring those experiences, … Last updated February 22, 2023
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Type Media Center Journalism Fellowship
Fellowship, Rolling from Type Media Center
The Journalism Fellowship Program at Type Media Center is a multi-year fellowship that allows emerging and established journalists to write on complex social and political issues. The fellows form a … Last updated February 22, 2023
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The Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism
Fellowship from The Carter Center
Every year, eight U.S. journalists are selected and awarded stipends of $10,000 each to cover fellowship project expenses. Selected international journalists are awarded a comparable stipend. If you apply as … Last updated February 20, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: April 7, 2023 | Recurring
Driehaus Foundation Grants
Grant from Richard H. Driehaus Foundation
Opportunity Description Description The Richard H. Driehaus Foundation does not accept unsolicited proposals. If, after carefully reading the grantmaking guidelines in the relevant program area, you believe your organization might … Last updated February 20, 2023
| Applications open | Deadline: June 30, 2023
Health and Wellbeing Grants
Grant from Santa Fe Community Foundation
The Health & Wellbeing grants cycle takes place in the spring each year, in conjunction with the Community Health Funders Alliance. The 2022 spring grants cycle RFP opens April 1, … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Rory Peck Trust Assistance Grants
Grant from Rory Peck Trust
Telling the stories the world needs to hear can come at great personal risk to freelance journalists many of whom have been seriously injured, threatened, imprisoned, detained, forced into exile, … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Rory Peck Training Fund
Rolling, Training from Rory Peck Trust
The Rory Peck Training Fund enables freelance journalists to gain the essential skills and knowledge needed to work in difficult and potentially dangerous situations. Launched in 2000, the Training Fund … Last updated February 20, 2023
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Poynter-Koch Media and Journalism Fellowship 2023-24
Training from The Poynter Institute
As a Poynter-Koch fellow, you’ll receive nearly a year of career development, delivered by seasoned journalism veterans and industry experts who care deeply for early career journalists. You will have the … Last updated February 20, 2023
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