Water Desk Journalism Fund 2025 (up to $10,000) – YOA

Deadline: June 16, 2025

Applications are open for the Water Desk Journalism Fund 2025. The Water Desk will help journalism that focuses on water points involving the seven states of the Colorado River Basin—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming—in addition to the borderlands of Northwest Mexico.

Proposals associated to areas that lie exterior of the hydrologic boundaries of the Colorado River Basin’s watershed will need to have a powerful connection to water points within the basin.

Because water is intertwined with so many points, they’re open to proposals overlaying a broad spectrum of matters: local weather change, biodiversity, air pollution, public well being, environmental justice, meals, agriculture, ingesting water, economics, recreation and extra.

grant

• They might be awarding grants of $5,000 to $10,000 to help important reporting efforts that lead to the publication of content material linked to the Colorado River Basin.

Eligibility

• Only open to journalists (freelance and workers) and media shops.
• Based within the United States.
• The Water Desk is fascinated about supporting all kinds of media and journalistic approaches: newspapers, magazines, web sites, video, tv, radio, podcasts and different channels.

Application

The deadline for purposes is Monday, June 16, 2025, at 11:59 pm Pacific.

Complete the application and submit a single doc (8 pages most) with the next supplies:

• A abstract of the proposed work that features:
  • Narrative explaining the story/undertaking, together with its information worth, potential affect and significance to water points within the Colorado River Basin.
  • Discussion of how the content material might be distributed and the potential viewers. For freelancers, please submit at the least a letter of curiosity from an editor at a media outlet. If you don’t have such a dedication, please clarify your plan for pitching and disseminating your content material, and why your focused outlet is most applicable for this undertaking. Projects with out a letter of curiosity or dedication from a writer are a lot much less seemingly to be permitted.
  • Description of what journalistic instruments and approaches you’ll use (e.g., textual content, picture, video, audio, information visualization, public information, and many others.).
• A proposed price range that explains how the grant might be spent. You could use your personal format for the price range, however please escape bills utilizing customary classes, resembling wage, journey, books/studies, information, pictures, tools, and many others.
• A brief biography (250 phrases most) of the journalist(s) concerned within the story/undertaking.
• A present resume for the applicant. If a group of journalists is making use of, please solely submit the undertaking chief’s resume.
• Links to three related work merchandise (tales, initiatives, pictures, movies, and many others.) produced by the journalist(s) or media outlet(s).

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For extra info, go to Water Desk Journalism Fund.