CatchLight Global Fellowship 2025 ($30,000 award)

Deadline: December 14, 2024

Applications are open for the CatchLight Global Fellowship 2025. At CatchLight, they’re harnessing the facility of visible storytelling to alter the world. CatchLight helps people who need to domesticate vital viewers engagement by ingenious distribution strategies that can improve the affect of their work.

Central to the Global Fellowship targets and deliverables are sharing learnings and processes with the CatchLight group and wider area. Fellows are liable for sharing outcomes and insights by three major reporting mechanisms in the course of the Fellowship 12 months:

• Shared work by common updates 
• Presentation of your work/findings
• Visual documentation and information assortment

Benefits

• $30,000 award.
• Potential entry to extra future funding by the CatchLight Impact Fund.
• Paid journey and lodging for the 2025 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit in San Francisco. 
• Personal improvement alternatives, together with govt teaching.
• Impact technique and networking assist from CatchLight employees and our prolonged community. 
• A group of like-minded Fellows and trade professionals with alternatives for mentorship, schooling and talking engagements.

Eligibility

You will be the splendid candidate for a CatchLight Global Fellowship in case you are a(n):

• Long-form storyteller with a selected affect undertaking.
• Leader with a plan to advance/or develop the sector.
• Educator with modern approaches to supporting rising storytellers.

Assessment Criteria

Proposals can be assessed on how they make use of and strengthen new strategies and potential options with a watch in direction of a number of of the next goal outcomes:

• Innovative Distribution: Testing a brand new distribution technique of an current undertaking to successfully interact a selected viewers by visuals.
• Community Activations: Testing how visible storytelling may be leveraged to interact particular audiences and/or deal with particular group info wants
• Field sustainability: constructing methods and fashions that push the sector of visible storytelling or media ecosystem ahead.

Application

To apply, you’ll ask to supply the next:

• A fellowship assertion that describes how visuals typically, and your work particularly, interact audiences and have a long-term affect (200 phrases)
• An outline of the proposed work (250 phrases)
• An outline of how your distribution, engagement and/or affect plan differs from what is going on trade broad now and that identifies your audience (250 phrases)
• A plan to collect affect suggestions (100 phrases)
• A timeline for the work which may lengthen past the grant interval. (This may be broad or particular)
• A finances estimate for the proposed work. This finances can exceed the award quantity however please observe the place CatchLight funds could be used.
• Three subject concepts for sharing studying with the CatchLight group
• 10-20 photos which, if awarded, CatchLight has the rights to make use of in promotional supplies.
• Three skilled references. Contact info should embrace e-mail and telephone quantity.
• A brief bio.
• A replica of your curriculum vitae.

Click here to apply

For extra info, go to CatchLight Global Fellowship.