Amplify Europe for Digital Media in Croatia

• Eligibility Criteria:
  The following organizations are eligible to apply:
  – Applicants must be small or medium-sized independent media companies, at least six months in existence, with digital at the core of their business; and
  – Applicants should have a particular business/ revenue/ transformation project they are planning to work on over the next 12-24 months (or early stages of an existing project).
• Type of funding: Core Support
• Target country: Croatia
• Application language: English

Amplify Europe is currently open to independent media initiatives based in Croatia.

Amplify Europe supports the business sustainability of the most promising independent digital media companies from selected countries in Europe. Its mentoring and other forms of assistance seek to help media increase their management capacity, build audiences and generate sustainable and diverse revenue streams.

The independent media initiatives must be addressing one or more of the following focus areas:

• New revenue opportunities: Innovative solutions to revenue challenges that media companies face – opening up new revenue streams to make media organizations more sustainable and independent.
• Digital native products: New approaches to collecting news and information, and to reporting, storytelling and distribution, that embrace the possibilities of technology and contribute to the viability of news operations.
• Reaching communities outside capital/ big-city bubbles: Innovative approaches to reach that empower people outside major urban areas or those generally underserved by existing news media.
• Innovation in distribution: Media technology and tools that help to distribute local and relevant news in a cost-effective and sustainable way.
• Transition to digital: Finding and implementing solutions, products or processes that assist legacy media to transform their businesses.

See here to learn more and apply.

Access the Fundraising Guide for expert advice on how to improve your fundraising applications and to identify prospective donors.