Applications Invited for Civil Society Micro-Grant 2025

About the Organization

The Pulitzer Center has a daring imaginative and prescient: to be the venue for the world’s most progressive and consequential reporting, with journalism as the important thing component for mobilizing society by viewers engagement methods.

Founded in 2006 by Jon Sawyer, the Center is a necessary supply of help for enterprise reporting within the United States and throughout the globe. The hundreds of journalists and educators who’re part of our networks span greater than 80 international locations. Our work reaches tens of tens of millions of individuals every year by our news-media companions and an audience-centered technique of worldwide and regional engagement.

About the Grant

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 real-world impression: partaking and mobilizing communities, prompting calls for for change, influencing choices to halt environmentally damaging practices, and plenty of extra.

Since 2022, the Pulitzer Center has actively participated within the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to affix the local weather neighborhood in addressing the socio-environmental challenges and alternatives of the current. As an necessary stage for local weather and governance conversations which might be on the coronary heart of our work, COP is a key place to handle related points dropped at life in our applications and stimulate collaboration. For this purpose, we’re launching an initiative aimed toward supporting civil society tasks that may feed into the conversations we hope to have at COP 30 in Brazil.

Grant Size

Grants vary from US$2,000 to US$4,000. We count on tasks to be applied and concluded inside 9 months of approval.

Eligibility

• Organization kind: This grant is open to grassroots organizations, civil society organizations and coalitions, youth actions, and different teams working on the intersection of local weather, atmosphere, journalism, civic rights, and lively citizenship. The organizations ought to develop actions in Southeast Asia, Latin America, or in Africa.
• Capacity for collaboration: A monitor document of co-creating impactful tasks with different organizations and operational capability to handle micro-grant sources from a world group.
• Alignment with key points: Proven expertise engaged on the recognized subjects (local weather change, rainforest, ocean, transparency and governance).

How to Apply

The application should embrace the next (see the hyperlink beneath):

• A normal description of the proposed venture in not more than 400 phrases. This ought to embrace the goals, drawback assertion and rationale, proposed actions,  meant impression of the proposed venture, and the Pulitzer Center-supported reporting and, the place related, the journalist to be concerned on this venture;
• Description of the audience and projection (quantity) of the full viewers reached;
• Strategy (or methodology);
• Activity implementation timeline;
• A preliminary funds estimate, together with a price forecast;
• If the proposed actions embrace information trade actions with Indigenous peoples or conventional communities, an announcement from a neighborhood member demonstrating their consent have to be submitted. This may 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).

Application course of: January 15 – February 15, 2025  

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