Indigenous Community Media Fund

• Eligibility Criteria:
  In order to be eligible to apply for the Indigenous Community Media Fund, the applicants must be:
  – Community radio networks or Indigenous media;
  – Networks or collectives of Indigenous communicators;
  – Networks or collectives of Indigenous women communicators;
  – Collectives of Indigenous muralists and photographers;
  – Other media managed by Indigenous Peoples: written press, community television, audiovisual and multimedia production, intranet and community internet.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Global
• Application Language: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese

Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Fund (ICMF) promotes partnerships and provides funding to strengthen the infrastructure and transmission systems of Indigenous community media and radio stations, as well as training opportunities for community journalists.

Our goal is to improve and ensure the sustainability of community media managed by communities and Indigenous Peoples.

This year, they especially seek to support activities related to environmental justice in the face of climate change, including prevention, mitigation, and response to natural disasters.

Eligible regions and countries

• Central and South America and the Caribbean: Argentina, Bolivia, Belize, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela.
• North America: Canada, United States and Mexico
• Africa: Botswana, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe.
• Asia: India, Philippines, Indonesia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand.
• Pacific countries: Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, and French Polynesia

Funding Information

• Indigenous community radio stations, collectives, and Indigenous community media may apply for a grant of up to $8,000 USD; and for Indigenous community media network proposals involving three or more community media, up to $12,000 USD.
• Proposed projects should be completed within a 6 to 10-month period.

See here to learn more and apply.

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