Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant 2026 (up to $15,000) – YOA

Deadline: On Rolling Basis

Applications are open for the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Reporting Grant 2026. Pulitzer Center rainforest reporting helps and builds capability for high quality, impartial journalism in three key areas: the Amazon, the Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia.

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 experiences. 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 quick-time period undertaking assist to journalists reporting in tropical forests, however seeks extra bold proposals: bigger in scale, and collaborative and progressive in approaches. The initiative will proceed to present sources and capability to journalists by means of selective coaching and networking alternatives with different Pulitzer Center grantees and Fellows.

Grants

• Most grants fall within the vary of $8,000 to $15,000, however relying on undertaking specifics, comparable to bills for know-how or consultancy, these charges could also be greater.

Eligibility

• The Rainforest Reporting Grant helps journalists, workers and freelancers, to report on points in tropical forests, particularly in three important rainforest areas—Amazon, Congo Basin, and Southeast Asia. Applications for regional and worldwide initiatives are reviewed by editors who’re consultants on the problems and areas.
• Journalists can submit functions in 5 languages (English, French, bahasa Indonesia, Portuguese, and Spanish) and may produce experiences in these or different languages.

Application

There isn’t any deadline for grant functions; grants are awarded on a rolling foundation. 

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For extra data, go to Rainforest Reporting Grant.