Media Grants to Strengthen Coverage of Environmental Crimes and Sustainable Solutions in the Amazon 2025

• Eligibility Criteria
  – Media organisations, networks of journalists and/or communicators, universities, and journalistic institutions focusing on environmental crimes reporting in the Amazon region are invited to apply for these media grants;
  – Civil society organisations, community groups and research institutes will also be considered, provided they operate with strong media and communication components. Please note: they will not consider applications focused on advocacy, activism or political campaigning;
  – They welcome applications from organisations in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru, with a preference for those with established networks in the Amazon region and those willing to carry out transboundary work involving the four target countries that are the focus of the project. They generally prefer to support organisations that carry out work in the country where they are based, but they will consider applications from organisations seeking to collaborate with groups in the Amazon region of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil;
  – Organisations must be legally registered in their country and maintain a bank account with the capacity to receive international funds;
  – For this grant opportunity, they will only accept applications in English, Spanish and Portuguese (translations of this call for proposals are available at the top and bottom of the page). Unfortunately, they cannot consider applications in other languages at this time. Applicants must either have a working understanding of English, Spanish or Portuguese or have a translator available to assist in communication with Internews staff. However, please note that project outputs, such as stories or journalism tools and resources, can be produced in any language;
  – Organisations that have received support from Internews or EJN in the past are eligible and they will consider past performance during the selection process;
  – Applicants are required to be transparent about the use of generative AI tools, if any, to revise their proposals. EJN reserves the right to disqualify applicants from consideration if they have been found to have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, including, but not limited to, submitting AI-generated content as their own.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru
• Application Language: English, Spanish and Portuguese

Internews’ EJN, is offering organisational grants of $5,000 to $10,000 to media outlets, NGOs, academic institutions, and other interested groups to support media and journalism activities related to environmental crimes in the Amazon Region in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru.

Project themes and objectives 

Interested applicants should propose activities for the training of Amazonian journalists and communicators and for supporting the production of journalistic reports on environmental crimes. The proposals must focus on the priority geographies of the Together for Conservation project and its objectives.

Examples of possible activities include for the media grants, but are not limited to:

• Grants for reporting for journalists and communicators
• Mentoring of journalists and communicators for the production of stories about environmental crimes
• Investigative and/or collaborative reporting projects with a transboundary, regional focus
• Networking and partnership activities for journalists and communicators
• Field trips and/or training workshops that bring together journalists, communicators, and specialists on environmental crimes in the Amazon and result in the production of reports.

Funding Information

• They anticipate supporting 5-8 organisations with funding of $5,000 to $10,000 each.
• In general, proposals with smaller budgets will be more competitive. Larger grant amounts will be considered for projects that use innovative approaches and may be more resource- and time-intensive.

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