Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants 2025 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: May 27, 2025

Applications are open for the Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants 2025. The National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute will collectively award grants to U.S.-based journalists who plan to cowl environmental justice.

Grants will likely be awarded to help journalism in any medium that facilities on environmental justice and environmental racism within the United States. This might embody protection of the disproportionate harms to deprived communities from air pollution, the results of local weather change, or different related subjects. The Kozik Grants have been funded by a 1991 present from the late Dr. Franklin Kozik in honor of his deceased son Robert. Three rounds of grants have been awarded, most not too long ago introduced in July 2024.

Grants

• Grants up to $15,000 will likely be awarded.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists within the United States.
• Submit three samples of your work that you just’re most pleased with having produced. The submitted work doesn’t have to cowl environmental justice; in your application, assist the judges join the work you’ve finished and the work you’re hoping to do with these funds.
• Newsroom journalists should submit a word of help from their supervisor. Freelance journalists ought to submit a word from an task editor expressing curiosity in publishing their work.
• Judges will likely be skilled journalists or former journalists educated about environmental justice.
• Depending on the variety of grant candidates and the sums requested, organizers might choose to distribute the grants on a rolling foundation till the entire funds are distributed.
• Half of every grant shall be paid when the grant is awarded. The ultimate half will likely be paid when the completed work is full.
• The grant is meant to cowl reporting, writing and journey bills for the mission. For freelance journalists, a portion of the grant might also be used to help residing bills.
• If you’re receiving help for this mission from one other grant or basis, embody that info in your application.
• The grantees will obtain mentorship help coordinated by NPCJI, to be decided as soon as they’re chosen, and also will have the OPPORTUNITY to help one another as a cohort.
• Work have to be printed or broadcast, or an extension requested, by Dec. 31, 2025, in a U.S.-based media outlet.
• In the printed or broadcast work, credit score have to be given to the “Kozik Grants funded by the National Press Foundation and the National Press Club Journalism Institute.” NPF and NPCJI shall have the best to show the printed works on their respective web sites. However, the creator and writer of the work will retain the copyright.

Application

Journalists should submit a one to two-web page proposal by May 27, 2025, explaining the mission they want to cowl, a price range to clarify the quantity requested, and the place the completed work would seemingly seem. They are trying to help individuals, their ardour, and their objective, so mirror that in your proposal.

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For extra info, go to Kozik Environmental Justice Reporting Grants.