The Drum Beat 575 - Awards and Funding
This issue includes:
- 9 AWARDS opportunities.
- Please UPDATE us on future opportunities.
- 10 MORE awards.
- ADVERTISE YOUR CONSULTANCY SERVICES through Development Classifieds.
- 6 FUNDING opportunities.
- Seeking SBCC knowledge or capacity-building resources?
- 6 MORE funding opportunities.
This issue of The Drum Beat includes a selective medley of awards and funding opportunities with deadlines between February 2011 and May 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.
1. Excellence in Media Award for Global Health
Honouring a journalist (print, electronic, and/or visual) who has in the prior year most effectively captured the essence of a major issue in global health and conveyed it to a broad audience...
Deadline: February 1 2011
2. NASW Science in Society Journalism Awards
Encouraging outstanding investigative and interpretive reporting (print, broadcast, and online) about the sciences and their impact for good and ill...
Deadline: February 1 2011
3. Robert F. Kennedy High School and College Journalism Awards
Recognising outstanding achievement in journalism at the high school and college levels for work published in the United States (US). Entries should focus on issues that reflect former US Senator Robert F. Kennedy's concerns, including human rights, social justice, and the power of individual action...
Deadline: February 1 2011
4. Special Award for Development Media - One World Media
Honouring local radio/TV initiatives (including a specific programme or channel, or a network of stations), print media, or new media working on the ground in the developing world to make a difference by addressing social or development issues...
Deadline: February 7 2011
Recognising news coverage in the United Kingdom (UK) that reflects the social, political, and cultural life of people in the wider world and that supports greater understanding between developing and developed countries...
Deadline: February 7 2011
6. Best Practices in Global Health Award
Celebrating and highlighting the efforts of a public health practitioner or organisation dedicated to improving the health of disadvantaged and disenfranchised populations and recognising the programmes that effectively demonstrate the link between health, poverty, and development...
Deadline: February 15 2011
7. Bob the Bunny's Cartoon Competition
Encouraging environmental awareness and activity among future decision-makers, specifically, younger adventurers aged between 10 and 12 years old, through a competition to make cartoon-style illustrations on environmental issues...
Deadline: February 28 2011
Inviting entries and nominations of exceptional young social entrepreneurs, activists, and community leaders who are the pivotal "do-ers" in their fields and causes...
Deadline: March 1 2011
9. Prize for Prevention of Abuse and Violence against Children
Commemorating the World Day for Prevention of Abuse and Violence against Children through awarding 4 prizes for innovative prevention activities among its non-governmental organisation (NGO) Women's World Summit Foundation (WWSF) coalition members in order to foster the creation of a culture of prevention of child abuse...
Deadline: March 15 2011
WELCOMING YOUR UPDATES
In the past, The Communication Initiative (The CI) has contacted organisations annually to request updates for the communication for development (C4D) opportunities they sponsor. We know that members of The CI network, judging by their frequency of accessing our summaries of these opportunities, value reading about and applying for your offerings.
At this time, we kindly ask that you contact us when you have updates and announcements of new contests, prizes, and funding opportunities that address C4D issues and strategies. Please do not wait to hear from us; just send details and links anytime to drumbeat@comminit.com Many thanks!
10. Prize for Women's Creativity in Rural Life Award
Honouring creative and courageous women and women's groups around the world for their contributions to improving the quality of life in rural communities, with a focus on drawing international attention to the laureates' contributions to sustainable development, household food security, and peace...
Deadline: March 31 2011
Honouring and awarding innovators from around the world who use technology to benefit humanity as part of an effort to "inspire global engagement in applying technology to humanity's most pressing problems by recognizing individuals, organizations, and companies that are utilizing innovative technology solutions to address the most urgent issues facing our planet..."
Deadline: March 31 2011
12. KC Kulish International Award for Excellence in Print Journalism: 2010 Publications
Recognising outstanding efforts by teams of journalists working in daily newspapers globally to promote rights and freedom for a better quality of life - with an award theme for 2010/2011 of "Crusade Against Corruption"...
Deadline: March 31 2011
13. Scenarios from Africa International Scriptwriting Competition
Invites young Africans up to the age of 25 - on the continent and of the Diaspora - to create a story for a short film on HIV/AIDS. The films can take the form of a short story, a comic strip, or a song...
Deadline: April 1 2011
14. Lola Kenya Screen 2011 Film Awards
Inviting people around the world to be part of an annual festival in Nairobi, Kenya, August 8-13 2011 by submitting experimental films, television series, video games, and music videos tackling issues related to children, youth, and family that provide strong role models to children and youth while speaking positively to children of diverse backgrounds...
Deadline: April 15 2011
15. Lola Kenya Screen 2011 Skill-Development Mentorship Programme
Calling upon children and youth in East Africa who are knowledgeable, opinionated, and interested in film, journalism, creativity, and cultural events to apply for participation in a series of skill-development mentorship programmes to equip children and youth with the skills to understand, appreciate, and create quality audiovisual productions...
Deadline: April 15 2011
16. Stop TB Partnership/Lilly MDR-TB Partnership Journalism Award
Recognising outstanding reporting and commentary in print and on the web that increases the public's knowledge and understanding of tuberculosis (TB) and multidrug-resistant TB in countries affected by the disease...
Deadline: April 30 2011
17. Louise Lown Heart Hero Award
Recognising innovative preventive approaches to promoting cardiovascular health in developing countries and other low-resource settings with a monetary award of US$2,000. Applications are encouraged from community-based programmes...
Deadline: April 30 2011
18. Communication for Sustainable Social Change Award
Honouring outstanding contributions by individuals or organisations to the theory and practice of Communication for Sustainable Social Change (CSSC)...
Deadline: May 1 2011
19. Like A Drop of Water's Writing Contest
Offering young people, ages 8-17, worldwide the opportunity to share their ideas on how they and their countries can reduce global warming and pollution, with the top 50 essays yearly being sent to the White House (in Washington, DC, in the United States) and made available to governments across the world and the 100 winning essays bi-yearly being published as an e-book...
Deadline: Ongoing, awarded monthly through 2015
Advertise Your Consultancy Organisation or Services through The CI
If you wish to position your services and skills relative to the 75,000 people in The CI network, please consider an entry in the Consultants section of the Development Classifieds website and e-magazine. You can directly submit at or contact jsavidge@comminit.com for assistance.
20. The Persephone Miel Fellowship for Crisis Reporting
Inviting non-native English speaking media professionals the opportunity to reach audiences beyond their home countries on critical under-reported issues through this fellowship, which is intended to benefit those with limited access to other fellowships or international distribution of their work...
Deadline: February 1 2011
21. International Engagement Awards
Supporting projects on health research that aim to: strengthen the capacity of people in developing countries to facilitate public engagement with health research; stimulate dialogue; investigate and test new methods of engagement, participation, communication, or education; promote collaboration between researchers and community or public organisations; and support Wellcome Trust-funded researchers in developing countries in engaging with the public and policy makers...
Deadline: February 4 2011
Inviting applications for a journalism fellowship based at the Journalism Department at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, to allow a journalist/writer/researcher the space to pursue an in-depth project to be published in any medium...
Deadline: February 20 2011
23. Blogging on Development Policy
Seeking blog entries on development policy - soliciting persuasive critiques and encouraging discussion on development policy issues. CI Network members from around the world (as well as those who wish to become CI Network members) are requested to submit their opinion pieces to the collaborative blog at Communication, Media, and Development Policy.
Deadline: February 28 2011
24. IDRC Doctoral Research Awards
Inviting applications for the Doctoral Research Awards, intended to promote the growth of Canadian and developing country capacity in research on sustainable and equitable development from an international perspective...
Deadline: April 1 2011
25. Atlas Service Corps Fellowship
Seeking mid-career non-profit (non-governmental or citizen sector) leaders in developing countries and the United States to apply for a one-year to 18-month overseas fellowship...
Deadline: April 15 and October 15 2011
Spotlight on: Social and Behaviour Change Communication (SBCC)
Seeking SBCC knowledge related to health issues? See C-Picks click here and subscribe to the bi-monthly C-Picks e-magazine click here.
Seeking SBCC Capacity Strengthening resources? See C-Capacity click here and subscribe to the bi-monthly C-Capacity e-magazine click here.
26. International Media Studies - Master's Programme Scholarship
Funding 10 applicants from Africa, Asia, Latin America, or Eastern Europe for the bilingual German and English International Media Studies Master's Programme in Bonn, Germany, which combines topics like media and development, journalism, communication science, and media economics, while developing practical media skills and competencies...
Deadline: April 15 2011
27. WAGGGS Small Grants for Environmental Projects
Inviting Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world to apply for a small grant of up to US$250 for their projects to help save the planet through projects related to adaptation (helping people cope with climate change), especially projects related to food security and agriculture or mitigation (preventing further CO2 emissions)...
Deadline: May 31 2011
28. Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Travel Grants
Funding international travel costs associated with reporting projects on topics and regions of global importance, with an emphasis on issues that have gone unreported or under-reported in the mainstream United States media as communicated through multi-media projects that combine print/photography and video to explore the issues...
Deadline: Rolling
29. Scholar Rescue Fund (SRF) Fellowships
Providing fellowships for established scholars whose lives and work are threatened in their home countries in an effort to permit professors, researchers, and other senior academics to find temporary refuge at universities and colleges anywhere in the world...
Deadline: Rolling; applications reviewed thrice yearly, generally mid-January, April, and October
30. New Field Foundation Grants
Inviting the submission of introductory information from organisations in Africa that are working to: improve rural women's organisations, their families, communities, and countries; contribute to a dynamic movement of rural women who are creating social change; and promote African rural women's leadership that creates economic justice, gender equity, and peace at local, provincial, and national levels...
Deadline: Rolling
31. The CIME Ambassador Program
Inviting applications for the Center for International Media Ethics (CIME) Ambassador Program, which supports the international promotion of media ethics through CIME's J-Ethinomics courses and offers ambassadors the chance to be a CIME spokesperson in their respective regions...
Deadline: Rolling
This issue of The Drum Beat was written by Julie Levy.
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