The Drum Beat 554 - Awards and Funding
This issue includes:
- 8 AWARDS opportunities.
- THANKS to a renewing CI Associate.
- 8 MORE awards.
- How to define journalism?: WEIGH IN!
- 6 FUNDING opportunities.
- WINNERS announced: media reporting on dev't.
- 5 MORE funding opportunities.
This issue of The Drum Beat includes a selective medley of awards and funding opportunities with deadlines between August 15 2010 and January 11 2011 and others with rolling deadlines, selected from a more complete list summarised on The Communication Initiative (The CI) website. Details about the prizes are in the full descriptions, including criteria, deadlines, and previous winners. Please access the links provided below for the full descriptions.
There are additional awards and funding opportunities available on The CI Global website; please see the Awards and Funding Opportunities sections.
If you have information about other contests, prizes, and funding opportunities that address communication for development issues and strategies, please send details and links to drumbeat@comminit.com Many thanks!
Offering funding to projects that use the arts to create transformational change in the developing world. The US$125,000 prize celebrates the power of art to promote social justice, build foundations for open societies, and inspire the human spirit...
Deadline: August 15 2010
2. ARDYIS Essay Contest: Youth, Rural Development and ICT
Inviting entries from young people aged 18-25 years old from African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries for an essay writing contest on "Youth and ICTs in Agriculture and Rural Development" which aims to identify innovative solutions on challenges faced by youth in agriculture and rural areas using information and communication technologies (ICTs)...
Deadline: August 15 2010
3. Alter-Ciné Foundation Documentary Film Grants
Offering a yearly grant of CDN$10,000 to young film and video makers born and living in Africa, Asia, and Latin America to direct a documentary film on the theme of rights and freedoms...
Deadline: August 15 2010
Honouring grassroots women activists from the Asian region, especially young women, who are steadily struggling for human rights of women...
Deadline: August 31 2010
Focusing on nominations of women journalists writing in Japanese and artists who vividly describe and transmit the situation of women in the world using a gender perspective...
Deadline: August 31 2010
6. ViewChange Online Film Contest
Calling for entries of 5-minute films about what people are doing to help end economic poverty, disease, hunger, conflict, inequality, and illiteracy to address the Millennium Development Goals. The grand prize is US$20,000 and airing of the film on Link TV and other TV channels worldwide...
Deadline: August 31 2010
Recognising the best freelance footage in news and current affairs - especially in regions where it is difficult to operate as a news gatherer. Applicants must be self-employed camera operators who regularly work for more than one employer but are not permanently employed...
Deadline: September 6 2010
Honouring those who have contributed to creating an awareness of population problems through journalism...
Deadline: September 7 2010
Our thanks to the Media Project Southern Africa of the Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation for their renewed support through the CI Associates process.
Please consider joining them and other CI Associates who are giving back by helping preserve, sustain, and advance this growing knowledge sharing and strategic development process. Many levels of participation are open!
For a full list of current CI Associates, please click here.
For details and to sign up, please click here. Thank you.
9. Excellence in New Communications Awards
Recognising work that is pioneering the use of social media, ICT, mobile media, online communities, virtual worlds, and collaborative technologies in areas including marketing, entertainment, education, politics, and social initiatives...
Deadline: September 10 2010
10. Green Awards for Creativity and Sustainability
Honouring creative work that communicates the importance of corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, and ethical best practice in any sector and across any marketing discipline...
Deadline: September 30 2010
11. Music Against Poverty Contest
Recognising young Europeans, between ages 15 and 25, in 27 countries for an original song on the general issue of development, and, notably, on the 8 Millennium Development Goals. The winners - selected through online voting and a jury of music professionals - will be awarded a professional studio recording of their song...
Deadline: September 30 2010
Awarding an individual living outside the United States who has survived a form of slavery and is now using his or her life in freedom to assist others. This award offers US$10,000 for training and capacity building and a total of US$10,000 over 2 years...
Deadline: October 1 2010
13. Anne Templeton Zimmerman Award
Recognising a young adult anti-slavery activist living in the United States who has survived a form of slavery and is now using his/her life in freedom to help others exercise the purpose of their lives...
Deadline: October 1 2010
Honouring a community-based organisation that is demonstrating how slavery can be dismantled and destroyed. The winning organisation will receive a grant of US$25,000 per year for 2 years, technical assistance package worth US$15,000 per year for 2 years, and a tour to share experiences with relevant organisations, and will also be the subject of a short documentary film produced by Free the Slaves...
Deadline: October 1 2010
15. World's Children's Prize for the Rights of the Child (WCPRC)
Awarding, through a worldwide children's election process, 3 individuals or organisations for outstanding contributions on behalf of the rights of the child. The election of finalists is structured as an educational and empowerment process for the rights of the child and democracy and gives the world's children an opportunity to present prizes for significant contributions to their rights...
Deadline: January 5 2011
Honouring outstanding accomplishments in conflict resolution, negotiation, community building, and peacebuilding. Recipients will have made significant contributions toward bridging divides between people, finding solutions to seemingly intractable problems, and providing inspiration and hope where often there was none...
Deadline: Ongoing nominations
In your context, is this definition of journalism still relevant and
valuable?: "a truthful, comprehensive and intelligent account of the day's
events in a context that gives them some meaning."
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
17. SEED Awards for Entrepreneurship in Sustainable Development
Seeking to support locally led, innovative, entrepreneurial partnerships in 7 developing countries that have the potential to make real improvements in poverty eradication and environmental sustainability...
Deadline: August 16 2010
18. British Medical Association (BMA) Information Fund
Inviting applications from organisations in developing countries seeking health information materials from Teaching Aids at Low Cost (TALC). The fund donates educational materials, such as books and DVDs, to health care institutions, health non-governmental organisations (NGOs), medical school libraries, and other related organisations...
Deadline: August 27 2010
19. Health Communications Internship Program (HCIP)
Recruiting United States candidates for a paid internship programme that offers mentoring to undergraduate and graduate students in health communications research, monitoring and evaluation, campaign design and development, advocacy, media relations, planning and implementation of programmes, health disparity reduction, and science writing...
Deadline: First Tuesday in September
20. School for Advanced Research (SAR)-Campbell Fellowship
Supporting a female social scientist from a developing nation, either a Ph.D. candidate or post-doctoral scholar, whose work addresses women's economic and social empowerment in that nation...
Deadline: November 1 2010
21. The Society for New Communications Research Fellowship
Seeking futurists, scholars, technologists, business leaders, professional communicators, and members of the media as volunteer Fellows for a year-long programme to collaborate with other Society for New Communications Research (SNCR) fellows on original research and educational programmes on a volunteer basis....
Deadline: December 11 2010
22. John S. Knight Fellowships for Professional Journalists
Giving international and US-based journalists an academic year at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California, working with Stanford faculty and regional resources. The 1-year fellowships are granted annually to 12 US and up to 8 international editors, journalists, reporters, photographers, and radio and television broadcasters...
Deadline: December 15 2010
WINNERS ANNOUNCED! Media Reporting on Development: Provocative and Original Stories
The recent Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Award process, supported by The Communication Initiative through its Development Networks, received 86 entries of reporting on international development. 100 journalists from around the world submitted their best articles, news pieces, critiques, and editorials that focused on poverty alleviation, democracy and governance, rights, health, and other Millennium Development Goals.
The First Place Award went to Nilanjana Bhowmick for the article "India nder Pressure to Do More to Stop Child Labour," originally published in ime.com, which focused on the employment of children as domestic workers when they should be in school.
Two Runners-Up were also awarded. One went to Bamuturaki Musinguzi for the article "Evicted from Forests, the Batwa are destitute," published in The East African. This article focused on the plight of the Batwa Pygmies, or 'Twa', who have been driven out of their traditional homes in the forests of Uganda, Rwanda, and Burundi.
The other went to Teresa Rehman for the article "Young girls face trafficking as lack of rain drives worsening rural poverty," published by Reuters Alertnet. This article examined the unforeseen effects of climate change in India, as poverty drives the illegal trafficking of young women.
Special mention also went to Manshi Asheri for the article "Towering blots on the peaks," which looks at the effects of hydroelectric constructions in India and was published in The Tribune.
In order to read these and all of the submitted articles, please log in and join the Group "Awards: Media Reporting on Development".
23. UN Democracy Fund: Grants for Democracy Projects
Calling for proposals from civil society organisations to apply for funding aimed at promoting democracy. Thematic categories are: democratic dialogue and support for constitutional processes; civil society empowerment, including the empowerment of women; civic education and voter registration; citizens' access to information; participation rights and the rule of law in support of civil society; and transparency and integrity...
Deadline: December 31 2010
24. International Women's Program (IWP) Grants
Inviting grant proposals for efforts to promote and protect the rights of women and girls where the principles of good governance and respect for the rule of law are absent or destroyed because of conflict....
Deadline: Rolling
Focusing on sustainable community action projects, programmes, or organisations created by young people in Canada and the United States...
Deadline: Rolling
Supporting projects that focus on marginalised women, propose innovative strategies, and include women's rights organisations, networks, and funds led by and for women and girls...
Deadline: Rolling
27. The Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Sending international media professionals to countries where there are opportunities to promote reliable, insightful journalism that holds officials accountable...
Deadline: Rolling
This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Julie Levy.
The Editor of The Drum Beat is Kier Olsen DeVries.
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