Pulitzer Center Civil Society Micro-Grant 2025: COP30 Call for Proposal (up to $4,000) – YOA

Deadline: February 15, 2025

Proposals are invited for the Pulitzer Center Civil Society Micro-Grant 2025. Climate and environmental points have been on the core of the Pulitzer Center’s work since its founding in 2006. The Center has supported breakthrough journalism that led to actual-world influence: participating and mobilizing communities, prompting calls for for change, influencing selections to halt environmentally damaging practices, and lots of extra.

Since 2022, the Pulitzer Center has actively participated within the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to be part of the local weather group in addressing the socio-environmental challenges and alternatives of the current. As an essential stage for local weather and governance conversations which are on the coronary heart of their work, COP is a key place to deal with related points introduced to life of their applications and stimulate collaboration. For this motive, Pulitzer Center is launching an initiative geared toward supporting civil society initiatives that may feed into the conversations they hope to have at COP 30 in Brazil.

Grant

• Grants vary from US$2,000 to US$4,000. They anticipate initiatives to be applied and concluded inside 9 months of approval.

Eligibility

• Open to grassroots organizations, civil society organizations and coalitions, youth actions, and different teams working on the intersection of local weather, surroundings, journalism, civic rights, and lively citizenship. The organizations ought to develop actions in Southeast Asia, Latin America, or in Africa.
• A monitor report of co-creating impactful initiatives with different organizations and operational capability to handle micro-grant assets from a world group.
• Proven expertise engaged on the recognized subjects (local weather change, rainforest, ocean, transparency and governance).

Application

The application should embrace the next: 

• A common description of the proposed undertaking in not more than 400 phrases. This ought to embrace the goals, downside assertion and rationale, proposed actions,  meant influence of the proposed undertaking, and the Pulitzer Center-supported reporting and, the place related, the journalist to be concerned on this undertaking;
• Description of the audience and projection (quantity) of the entire viewers reached;
• Strategy (or methodology);
• Activity implementation timeline;
• A preliminary price range estimate, together with a price forecast;
• If the proposed actions embrace information trade actions with Indigenous peoples or conventional communities, an announcement from a group member demonstrating their consent should be submitted. This might be within the type of a message or letter; 
• If the actions embrace content material manufacturing, a content material manufacturing and distribution plan ought to be included;
• A duplicate of the curriculum vitae (solely) of the lead applicant, together with a letter of advice (from division heads or the administrators of your group / office).

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