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First Call: 2020 Impact Fund reporting grants
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Grants
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Description
The USC Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund provides reporting support to journalists who think big and want to make a difference in California communities. We welcome applications from journalists or newsrooms that want to tackle ambitious investigative or explanatory projects – by themselves, as a newsroom-wide undertaking or as a collaboration with other media outlets in their communities.
The Fund invites proposals that illuminate our national and state debates on health care policy and the impact of ongoing or proposed changes to the social safety net. The Fund also supports groundbreaking reporting on the health of underserved communities. It helps journalists bring untold stories to light and to investigate promising approaches to chronic ills. Projects must focus on California health issues and be published or broadcast either by a California media outlet or a national outlet with a substantial California audience.
Explorations can range from a look at environmental conditions where people live and work to the impact of race and ethnicity on health, or how poverty and education can shape wellbeing. We are especially interested in investigative or explanatory reporting projects that advance public understanding and health policy for underserved or vulnerable populations, which could include people living in low-income neighborhoods, rural areas, prisons, foster homes, juvenile detention centers or homeless encampments.
The Fund aims to advance what the Center for Health Journalism calls “impact journalism,” which marries powerful narratives, data and community engagement to serve as a catalyst for change. The deadline to apply is October 16, 2020. In both 2018 and 2019, the Fund awarded reporting grants of up to $10,000 each to support health projects put forward by individual reporters, intra-newsroom teams and multiple newsroom collaboratives.
Eligibilities
Preference will be given to mainstream-ethnic media collaborations. California-focused projects may be proposed either by journalists at California-based outlets or at national outlets. Students are not eligible, and preference is given to reporters who have a staff newsroom affiliation.
Benefits
Depending on the scope of the project, competitively selected grantees receive grant funds of $2,000 to $10,000. We also provide six months of mentoring while grantees work on their projects, providing guidance on everything from story development to mapping out how to tackle reporting, to ways to improve storytelling.
Program Venue
California
USA
Eligible Regions
USA
Eligible Countries
USA
Application Process
All applications must be filed through our online application. We suggest that you begin preparing your application in Word or another text-based format so that you can cut and paste the components into the online application.
The application asks for the following:
- A statement of purpose (500 words)
- A project proposal, including a statement of impact and proposed budget
- Three samples of professional work
- A current resumé
- A letter of reference
- An Editor’s Checklist signed by a supervising editor and confirming the media outlet’s intent to publish or broadcast the project
Applicants must join CenterforHealthJournalism.org and post a profile and photo.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How We Select Grantees:
When choosing grantees, we consider each candidate’s personal and professional accomplishments and potential, as well as the potential contribution of his or her proposed project on the public’s understanding of health issues. We value diversity in both our grantees and their media outlets. We encourage applications from candidates who serve non-English speaking audiences. The Center will only review complete applications submitted by the deadline.
Tips for Maximizing Your Chances of Being Selected
- Think big journalistically.
- Provide lots of details about what we can expect from your project. Provides specifics, such as likely story count and multimedia components. We want to know what will result from our investment in you.
- We’re looking for impact, so tell us what problem your project will expose and what might happen as a result of increased awareness by the public and policymakers.
- Tell us how you will engage the community with your project. It’s not sufficient anymore to just put something out there. Tell us how you will involve the public both in helping shape your journalism and responding to it.
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First Call: 2020 Impact Fund reporting grants
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Opportunity Type
Grants
Full Time
Description
The USC Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund provides reporting support to journalists who think big and want to make a difference in California communities. We welcome applications from journalists or newsrooms that want to tackle ambitious investigative or explanatory projects – by themselves, as a newsroom-wide undertaking or as a collaboration with other media outlets in their communities.
The Fund invites proposals that illuminate our national and state debates on health care policy and the impact of ongoing or proposed changes to the social safety net. The Fund also supports groundbreaking reporting on the health of underserved communities. It helps journalists bring untold stories to light and to investigate promising approaches to chronic ills. Projects must focus on California health issues and be published or broadcast either by a California media outlet or a national outlet with a substantial California audience.
Explorations can range from a look at environmental conditions where people live and work to the impact of race and ethnicity on health, or how poverty and education can shape wellbeing. We are especially interested in investigative or explanatory reporting projects that advance public understanding and health policy for underserved or vulnerable populations, which could include people living in low-income neighborhoods, rural areas, prisons, foster homes, juvenile detention centers or homeless encampments.
The Fund aims to advance what the Center for Health Journalism calls “impact journalism,” which marries powerful narratives, data and community engagement to serve as a catalyst for change. The deadline to apply is October 16, 2020. In both 2018 and 2019, the Fund awarded reporting grants of up to $10,000 each to support health projects put forward by individual reporters, intra-newsroom teams and multiple newsroom collaboratives.
Eligibilities
Preference will be given to mainstream-ethnic media collaborations. California-focused projects may be proposed either by journalists at California-based outlets or at national outlets. Students are not eligible, and preference is given to reporters who have a staff newsroom affiliation.
Benefits
Depending on the scope of the project, competitively selected grantees receive grant funds of $2,000 to $10,000. We also provide six months of mentoring while grantees work on their projects, providing guidance on everything from story development to mapping out how to tackle reporting, to ways to improve storytelling.
Program Venue
California
Eligible Regions
Eligible Countries
USA
Application Process
All applications must be filed through our online application. We suggest that you begin preparing your application in Word or another text-based format so that you can cut and paste the components into the online application.
The application asks for the following:
- A statement of purpose (500 words)
- A project proposal, including a statement of impact and proposed budget
- Three samples of professional work
- A current resumé
- A letter of reference
- An Editor’s Checklist signed by a supervising editor and confirming the media outlet’s intent to publish or broadcast the project
Applicants must join CenterforHealthJournalism.org and post a profile and photo.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How We Select Grantees:
When choosing grantees, we consider each candidate’s personal and professional accomplishments and potential, as well as the potential contribution of his or her proposed project on the public’s understanding of health issues. We value diversity in both our grantees and their media outlets. We encourage applications from candidates who serve non-English speaking audiences. The Center will only review complete applications submitted by the deadline.
Tips for Maximizing Your Chances of Being Selected
- Think big journalistically.
- Provide lots of details about what we can expect from your project. Provides specifics, such as likely story count and multimedia components. We want to know what will result from our investment in you.
- We’re looking for impact, so tell us what problem your project will expose and what might happen as a result of increased awareness by the public and policymakers.
- Tell us how you will engage the community with your project. It’s not sufficient anymore to just put something out there. Tell us how you will involve the public both in helping shape your journalism and responding to it.
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Partially Funded
First Call: 2020 Impact Fund reporting grants
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Opportunity Type
Grants
Select Type
Description
The USC Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund provides reporting support to journalists who think big and want to make a difference in California communities. We welcome applications from journalists or newsrooms that want to tackle ambitious investigative or explanatory projects – by themselves, as a newsroom-wide undertaking or as a collaboration with other media outlets in their communities.
The Fund invites proposals that illuminate our national and state debates on health care policy and the impact of ongoing or proposed changes to the social safety net. The Fund also supports groundbreaking reporting on the health of underserved communities. It helps journalists bring untold stories to light and to investigate promising approaches to chronic ills. Projects must focus on California health issues and be published or broadcast either by a California media outlet or a national outlet with a substantial California audience.
Explorations can range from a look at environmental conditions where people live and work to the impact of race and ethnicity on health, or how poverty and education can shape wellbeing. We are especially interested in investigative or explanatory reporting projects that advance public understanding and health policy for underserved or vulnerable populations, which could include people living in low-income neighborhoods, rural areas, prisons, foster homes, juvenile detention centers or homeless encampments.
The Fund aims to advance what the Center for Health Journalism calls “impact journalism,” which marries powerful narratives, data and community engagement to serve as a catalyst for change. The deadline to apply is October 16, 2020. In both 2018 and 2019, the Fund awarded reporting grants of up to $10,000 each to support health projects put forward by individual reporters, intra-newsroom teams and multiple newsroom collaboratives.
Eligibilities
Preference will be given to mainstream-ethnic media collaborations. California-focused projects may be proposed either by journalists at California-based outlets or at national outlets. Students are not eligible, and preference is given to reporters who have a staff newsroom affiliation.
Benefits
Depending on the scope of the project, competitively selected grantees receive grant funds of $2,000 to $10,000. We also provide six months of mentoring while grantees work on their projects, providing guidance on everything from story development to mapping out how to tackle reporting, to ways to improve storytelling.
Program Venue
California
Eligible Regions
Eligible Countries
USA
Application Process
All applications must be filed through our online application. We suggest that you begin preparing your application in Word or another text-based format so that you can cut and paste the components into the online application.
The application asks for the following:
- A statement of purpose (500 words)
- A project proposal, including a statement of impact and proposed budget
- Three samples of professional work
- A current resumé
- A letter of reference
- An Editor’s Checklist signed by a supervising editor and confirming the media outlet’s intent to publish or broadcast the project
Applicants must join CenterforHealthJournalism.org and post a profile and photo.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
How We Select Grantees:
When choosing grantees, we consider each candidate’s personal and professional accomplishments and potential, as well as the potential contribution of his or her proposed project on the public’s understanding of health issues. We value diversity in both our grantees and their media outlets. We encourage applications from candidates who serve non-English speaking audiences. The Center will only review complete applications submitted by the deadline.
Tips for Maximizing Your Chances of Being Selected
- Think big journalistically.
- Provide lots of details about what we can expect from your project. Provides specifics, such as likely story count and multimedia components. We want to know what will result from our investment in you.
- We’re looking for impact, so tell us what problem your project will expose and what might happen as a result of increased awareness by the public and policymakers.
- Tell us how you will engage the community with your project. It’s not sufficient anymore to just put something out there. Tell us how you will involve the public both in helping shape your journalism and responding to it.
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First Call: 2020 Impact Fund reporting grants
FUNDING TYPE
Description
The USC Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund provides reporting support to journalists who think big and want to make a difference in California communities. We welcome applications from journalists or newsrooms that want to tackle ambitious investigative or explanatory projects – by themselves, as a newsroom-wide undertaking or as a collaboration with other media outlets in their communities.
The Fund invites proposals that illuminate our national and state debates on health care policy and the impact of ongoing or proposed changes to the social safety net. The Fund also supports groundbreaking reporting on the health of underserved communities. It helps journalists bring untold stories to light and to investigate promising approaches to chronic ills. Projects must focus on California health issues and be published or broadcast either by a California media outlet or a national outlet with a substantial California audience.
Explorations can range from a look at environmental conditions where people live and work to the impact of race and ethnicity on health, or how poverty and education can shape wellbeing. We are especially interested in investigative or explanatory reporting projects that advance public understanding and health policy for underserved or vulnerable populations, which could include people living in low-income neighborhoods, rural areas, prisons, foster homes, juvenile detention centers or homeless encampments.
The Fund aims to advance what the Center for Health Journalism calls “impact journalism,” which marries powerful narratives, data and community engagement to serve as a catalyst for change. The deadline to apply is October 16, 2020. In both 2018 and 2019, the Fund awarded reporting grants of up to $10,000 each to support health projects put forward by individual reporters, intra-newsroom teams and multiple newsroom collaboratives.
BENIFITS
Depending on the scope of the project, competitively selected grantees receive grant funds of $2,000 to $10,000. We also provide six months of mentoring while grantees work on their projects, providing guidance on everything from story development to mapping out how to tackle reporting, to ways to improve storytelling.
Eligibilities
Preference will be given to mainstream-ethnic media collaborations. California-focused projects may be proposed either by journalists at California-based outlets or at national outlets. Students are not eligible, and preference is given to reporters who have a staff newsroom affiliation.
For Further Queries:
https://www.centerforhealthjournalism.org/faq
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Program Venue:
APPLICATION PROCESS
All applications must be filed through our online application. We suggest that you begin preparing your application in Word or another text-based format so that you can cut and paste the components into the online application.
The application asks for the following:
- A statement of purpose (500 words)
- A project proposal, including a statement of impact and proposed budget
- Three samples of professional work
- A current resumé
- A letter of reference
- An Editor’s Checklist signed by a supervising editor and confirming the media outlet’s intent to publish or broadcast the project
Applicants must join CenterforHealthJournalism.org and post a profile and photo.
