Grants

DEADLINE: JANUARY 2, 2026 — The Global Media Defence Fund of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) is accepting proposals. This call seeks to provide financial support to local, regional, and global not-for-profit […]

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 7, 2025 — The International Women Media Foundation (IWMF)’s Kim Wall Memorial Fund will provide $5,000 grants to journalists. The grant will fund women or nonbinary reporters covering subcultures and the undercurrents of […]

DEADLINE: DECEMBER 31, 2025 — Investigative journalists worldwide working on high-impact reporting projects will be awarded grants by The Stringer Foundation. Applications are welcome from creative practitioners across all public media forms — including writing, photography, film, […]

NOVEMBER 15, 2025 — The Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) seeks story pitches from journalists and newsrooms for investigative reporting grants. The investigative reporting grants will be offered under CJID’s “Strengthening Democratic Resilience […]

DEADLINE: OCTOBER 1, 2025 — Journalists can submit story pitches on poor education financing, limited citizen participation in education planning and gender-blind policy implementation in Oyo State. DevReporting, a niche media and cinematic platform focused […]

The Pulitzer Centre, a nonprofit organisation that supports independent global journalism, is accepting proposals for its ocean and fisheries reporting grant. The Centre seeks ambitious reporting proposals from freelance and staff journalists from around the […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 1, 2025 — The Next Narrative Africa Fund is offering development grant to support narrative feature films and episodic series. NNA Fund invests in narrative shifting audio-visual projects that grapple with and/or challenge […]

DEADLINE: AUGUST 31, 2025 — Action Against Hunger is offering photographers, videographers and content creators a grant for a new humanitarian perspective. The winning project will be awarded a grant of €5,000 to reward work completed […]

DEADLINE: JULY 13, 2025 — Women and nonbinary journalists can get up to $5,000 grants through the 2025 Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism. The Kari Howard Fund for Narrative Journalism by the International Women’s […]

DEADLINE: SEPTEMBER 16, 2025 — Vital Impacts is offering environmental photography grant to photographers across the globe. VI funds documentary projects on environmental stories. Vital Impacts supports long-term, locally based, environmental photography projects with communities […]