Pulitzer Center Africa Climate and Environment Micro Grants 2025 (up to $3,000) – YOA

Deadline: April 30, 2025

Applications are open for the Pulitzer Center Africa Climate and Environment Micro Grants 2025. The Pulitzer Center’s Africa Outreach Program, launched in 2022, engages younger professionals and impacted communities on problems with deforestation, ocean and marine useful resource administration, water sources preservation, and the impacts of local weather change on labor and employees highlighted in Pulitzer Center-supported tales.

The “Knowledge and Action Talks” outreach program—which features a collection of boards, dialogue classes, collaborations with participatory native radio applications, on-line campaigns, and exhibitions—enabled younger professionals and communities to voice their opinions, share their experiences, and replicate on essential financial, social, and environmental points with representatives from the media, public administration, enterprise and civil society, and assume tanks.

Building on its mannequin of leveraging Pulitzer Center-supported tales, the Africa outreach program is launching the Africa Climate and Environment Micro Grants, often known as “ACE Micro Grants,” a name for outreach proposals for native actions in Africa to apply with progressive concepts for outreach actions that clearly and creatively combine a number of Pulitzer Center tales, whereas concentrating on younger professionals or communities on matters together with the rainforest, ocean and marine safety, areas, and the impacts of local weather change on labor and employees.

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• Grants vary from USD $2,500 to USD $3,000. They count on tasks to be applied and concluded inside 4 months of approval.

Eligibility

• This micro grant is meant for grassroots organizations, civil society organizations and coalitions, youth actions, and different teams engaged on points relating to the intersection of local weather and labour, the atmosphere, journalism, civil rights, and energetic citizenship in Africa.
• A observe report of co-creating impactful tasks with different organizations and operational capability to handle micro-grant sources from a global group.
• Proven expertise engaged on the recognized matters (local weather change, the rainforest, the ocean, and transparency and governance). 
• Direct reference to the chosen goal (younger professionals or impacted communities), both by membership or by proof of previous expertise of collaboration.

Selection Criteria

• Journalism-inspired: All tasks should make the most of at the least one reporting and contain one journalist supported by the Pulitzer Center as a central part of the undertaking. The journalists could be concerned at numerous ranges, for undertaking growth and session, for instance. Their participation will want to be confirmed as soon as the undertaking has been chosen.
• Audience-centric: Describe the undertaking’s audience and why this undertaking is essential for them. It is essential to be aware that the audience ought to be between the ages of 25 and 45 and shouldn’t be part of the formal schooling system; 
• Impact-focused: Designed to obtain quick-time period outcomes that align with:
  • Improving the notice and vital considering of communities on key local weather, atmosphere, and intersectional points;
  • Contributing to extra knowledgeable and clear dialogues and selections, practices, and insurance policies associated to local weather, the atmosphere, and its intersectional points;
  • Equipping communities with data to take motion on the native or world degree.

Application

The application should embody the next: 

• A basic description of the proposed undertaking in not more than 400 phrases. This ought to embody the aims, drawback assertion and rationale, proposed actions, supposed impression 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 whole viewers reached;
• Strategy (or methodology);
• Activity implementation timeline;
• A preliminary finances estimate, together with a price forecast;
• If the proposed actions embody data alternate actions with Indigenous peoples or conventional communities, a press release from a neighborhood member demonstrating consent should be submitted. This could be within the type of a message or letter; 
• A replica of the curriculum vitae (solely) of the applicant group’s consultant, together with a letter of advice (from division heads or the administrators of your group/office).
• Proof of a reference to the neighborhood (affiliation or previous collaborative expertise).

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For extra data, go to ACE Micro Grant.