Manuel Lemos Deadline: 12/04/2021
Grant The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is pleased to announce applications for Small Grants for local Civil Society Organizations from Cahul and Ungheni Districts.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 15/04/2021
Grant The International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) is seeking applications for A Digital Path to Entrepreneurship and Innovation for Latin America to create a network of journalists, technologists and media entrepreneurs across the region.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 18/04/2021
Grant The #NataliPrize was created by the European Commission’s Directorate-General for International Partnerships (DG INTPA), and named after Lorenzo Natali, a precursor to the international partnerships approach to global challenges impacting society.
Global Forum for Media Development Deadline: 31/03/2021
Grant Based on the results of a jointly conducted study on ALTERNATIVE MEDIA PLATFORMS IN LEBANON, Maharat Foundation, the Arab Resource Center for Popular Arts (ARCPA/AL-JANA) and DW Akademie are launching a call for applications from independent alternative media and citizen media platforms to receive support .
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 26/03/2021
Grant The U.S. Mission aims to increase journalistic capacity and opportunities in the digital media space for 30 young professional journalists, with 50 percent participation of female journalists, across Pakistan.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 26/03/2021
Grant The U.S. Mission aims to increase journalistic capacity and opportunities in the digital media space for 30 young professional journalists, with 50 percent participation of female journalists, across Pakistan.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 26/03/2021
Grant The Park Foundation was formed in 1966. Its original focus was on education and grant-making in communities where Park Communications had interests. When he died in 1993, Mr. Park bequeathed more than 70 percent of his holdings to the Foundation.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 25/03/2021
Grant The Foundation seeks to strengthen the practice of financing significant public initiatives through crowdfunding – raising funds from citizens. The purpose of the competition is to strengthen the links of the media with their audiences, to form stable communities around the media.
Manuel Lemos Deadline: 14/03/2021
Grant The objective of the project is to support qualified organizations that can prove their competency in organizing the hereby described project in the most sustainable and efficient way.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentThe Covid-19 pandemic has dealt a further blow to the media sector, already ailing, slashing revenues and causing job losses in media outlets worldwide. As the world of media continues to grapple with this ongoing crisis, what initiatives are being developed to help chart a sustainable future for journalism and media around the world?
Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 09/02/2021
Grant The European Commission is launching a Call for proposals for the Pilot Project “Media ownership monitor”. The Media Ownership Monitor project will create a tool to better inform policy and regulatory interventions that support media freedom and pluralism, by clearly delineating where ownership lies, making potential issues more visible and thereby helping to improve the understanding of the media market. Concretely, the Monitor will provide a country-based database containing information on media ownership, assess systematically relevant legal frameworks and identify possible risks to media ownership transparency.
Daryna SterinaThis year’s virtual World Press Freedom Conference (WPFC) is taking place online from 9-10 December 2020, and GFMD is taking a front-and-center role in ensuring that journalism and news sustainability is on the agenda.
Daryna SterinaGFMD welcomes the European Democracy Action Plan (EDAP) as an important step in recognising the challenges faced by the media and journalism landscape and the deterioration of pluralistic media environments, particularly in light of COVID-19.
Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 28/01/2021
Grant Are you a startup from the media field, working with data? Are you willing to make data exploration both entertaining and informative? Do you question the impact of data and technology on individuals and society? The MediaFutures support programme is looking for startups eager to reshape the media value chain through innovative, inclusive and participatory applications of data and user-generated content.
Global Forum for Media DevelopmentEight months into the COVID-19 crisis, MDIF are offering a set of recommendations to help mitigate the adverse impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on media businesses.
Anne Marie HammerOver the past few years, funders in the open source tech sector have been hosting open calls for projects, providing innovators with opportunities to bring projects to the funders, rather than dictating the needs on the ground. This GFMD blog offers examples of these open calls and outlines how they work.
Jordan HigginsOn November 24, the Forum on Information & Democracy launched a working group on sustainability of journalism which will seek recommendations from media stakeholders, academics, and jurists on how to improve the sustainability of quality journalism.
Michael J. OghiaThe IGF Dynamic Coalition on the Sustainability of Journalism and News Media (DC-Sustainability) has launched its inaugural annual report, which features case studies and analyses that examine the intersections among journalism and news media sustainability, Internet governance, and digital policy.
Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 20/01/2021
Grant The European Commission (EC) has launched a call for proposals for Media Freedom and Investigative Journalism. This Call combines three references in the European Parliament’s budgetary remarks for 2020: Action 1 – Pilot Project: A Europe-wide response mechanism for violations of press and media freedom. Action 2 – Preparatory Action: Cross-border investigative journalism fund. Action 3 – Pilot Project: Supporting investigative journalism and media freedom in the EU.
Chiara Mantovano Deadline: 22/11/2020
Grant BBC Media Action and Media Development Investment Fund are inviting applications from public interest media organisations in Ethiopia that are committed to providing credible, independent news, information and debate to apply for capacity building support that will run from January 2021 to June 2023.