Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant 2025 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: On Rolling Basis

Applications are invited for the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant 2025. The new Rainforest Reporting Grant is an evolution of the Rainforest Journalism Fund (RJF), which was launched in 2018. Over 5 years, RJF has supported greater than 300 initiatives and 600 journalists who produced 1,700 studies. Their impacts vary from: a sanction in opposition to company mining actions in DRC, a coverage revision on a authorities agriculture program in Indonesia, and worldwide consideration on widespread unlawful wildlife trades.

Through this grant, the Pulitzer Center continues to present brief-time period undertaking assist to journalists reporting in tropical forests, however seeks extra bold proposals: bigger in scale, and collaborative and revolutionary in approaches. The initiative will proceed to present assets and capability to journalists by means of selective coaching and networking alternatives with different Pulitzer Center grantees and Fellows.

Grant

• The Rainforest Reporting Grant funds prices related to reporting initiatives on rainforests, with an emphasis on unreported or underreported points within the areas and the way they join on a world scale. The quantity of particular person grants will rely on the undertaking and detailed funds planning, akin to journey prices, charges for native reporting companions, and translation and associated prices.
• Most grants fall within the vary of $8,000 to $15,000, however relying on undertaking specifics, akin to bills for know-how or consultancy, these charges could also be larger.

Eligibility

• Open to journalists, employees and freelancers who report on points in tropical forests, particularly in three fundamental rainforest areas—Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. Applications for regional and worldwide initiatives are reviewed by editors who’re specialists on the problems and areas.
• Journalists can submit purposes in 5 languages (English, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, and Spanish) and may produce studies in these or different languages.

Application

There is not any deadline for grant purposes; grants are awarded on a rolling foundation.

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For extra data, see FAQ and go to Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant.