CatchLight Global Fellowship 2026 ($30,000 award) – YOA

Deadline: December 15, 2025

Applications are open for the CatchLight Global Fellowship 2026. At CatchLight, they’re harnessing the ability of visible storytelling to tell, join and rework communities. Through the CatchLight Global Fellowship, CatchLight helps people who wish to domesticate important viewers engagement by means of creative distribution strategies that may improve the affect of their work.

Since 2017, the CatchLight has awarded $30,000 to 26 modern visible storytellers overlaying a large number of subjects and are available from all around the world. Central to the Global Fellowship objectives and deliverables are sharing learnings and processes with the CatchLight neighborhood and wider subject. Fellows are liable for sharing outcomes and insights by means of three major reporting mechanisms through the Fellowship yr.

Benefits

• $30,000 award
• Potential entry to extra future funding
• Paid journey and lodging for the 2025 CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit in San Francisco.
• Personal growth alternatives, together with govt teaching
• Impact technique and networking help from CatchLight workers and our prolonged community. 
• A neighborhood of like-minded Fellows and business professionals with alternatives for mentorship, training and talking engagements.

Eligibility

You perhaps the perfect candidate for a CatchLight Global Fellowship in case you are a(n):

• Long-form storyteller with a selected affect venture
• Leader with a plan to advance/or develop the sector
• Educator with modern approaches to supporting upcoming storytellers

Proposals will probably be assessed on how they make use of and strengthen new strategies and potential options with a watch in direction of a number of of the next goal outcomes:

• Innovative Distribution: Testing a brand new distribution technique of an current venture to successfully have interaction a selected viewers by means of visuals.
• Community Activations: Testing how visible storytelling will be leveraged to have interaction particular audiences and/or tackle particular neighborhood info wants
• Field sustainability: constructing methods and fashions that push the sector of visible storytelling or media ecosystem ahead.

Application

Application necessities embrace however aren’t restricted to:

• A fellowship assertion on how visuals usually and your work particularly ignite social change, who your work goals to tell and what human connections your work creates (100 phrases)
• A thesis assertion summarizing what you want to do and why (100 phrases)
• An outline of the proposed work (250 phrases)
• An outline of your distribution, engagement and/or affect plan that identifies your audience for this work (250 phrases)
• A plan to assemble affect suggestions (100 phrases)
• A timeline for the work which might lengthen past the grant interval.
• A funds estimate for the proposed work. This funds can exceed the award quantity however please word the place CatchLight funds can be used
• Three matter concepts for sharing studying with the CatchLight neighborhood
• 10-20 photos which, if awarded
• 5 -10 photos (these will be the identical because the work submission)  — CatchLight has the rights to make use of in promotional supplies.
• Three skilled references. Contact info should embrace e-mail and telephone quantity.
• A brief bio
• A replica of your curriculum vitae.

Note: All functions have to be in English. They settle for translated functions nonetheless, in case you are chosen for an interview, these video interviews will probably be in English.

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For extra info, go to CatchLight Global Fellowship.