Deadline: 15th February 2025
Climate and environmental issues have been at the core of the Pulitzer Center’s work since its founding in 2006. The Center has supported breakthrough journalism that led to real-world impact: engaging and mobilizing communities, prompting demands for change, influencing decisions to halt environmentally destructive practices, and many more.
Since 2022, the Pulitzer Center has actively participated in the UN Conference of the Parties (COP) to join the climate community in addressing the socio-environmental challenges and opportunities of the present. As an important stage for climate and governance conversations that are at the heart of our work, COP is a key place to address relevant issues brought to life in our programs and stimulate collaboration. For this reason, we are launching an initiative aimed at supporting civil society projects that can feed into the conversations we hope to have at COP 30 in Brazil.
Benefits
Grants range from US$2,000 to US$4,000. We expect projects to be implemented and concluded within nine months of approval.
Topics to be Supported
The civil society organization microgrant builds on the Pulitzer Center’s impactful journalism projects, which focus on the following:
- Climate and Labor: Exploring the intersection of climate change and labor, including the challenges faced by vulnerable communities and the business sector’s response to navigating climate-related impacts on workers’ rights.
- Rainforest: Highlighting critical issues and solutions in tropical forests, such as deforestation, biodiversity loss, the rainforest, and energy transition nexus, and the effects on Indigenous and local communities.
- Ocean: Addressing pressing topics like overfishing, marine pollution, climate change impacts on ocean ecosystems, and the livelihoods of coastal communities.
- Transparency and Governance: Uncovering governance challenges, good practices in natural resource management, and the ecological and societal impacts of policy decisions.
Type of Activities they Support
Examples of activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Multi stakeholder dialogue: Facilitating transparent and meaningful dialogues that bring together affected communities, journalists, decision-makers, and academia to advance climate and environmental action.
- Public forum: Organizing a national forum to foster public debate on key environmental issues, with Pulitzer Center-supported reporting as one of the knowledge or data sources to provoke discussions and inspire solutions.
- Community engagement: Knowledge-sharing activities between journalists and communities to amplify underreported issues and underrepresented voices.
- Creative campaign: Supporting creative campaigns to raise awareness on climate and environmental issues by amplifying journalism reporting and the diverse voice of affected communities;
- Other innovative projects: Creative ideas such as art exhibitions or other innovative mediums and platforms are also accepted.
Eligibility
- Organization type: This grant is open to grassroots organizations, civil society organizations and coalitions, youth movements, and other groups working at the intersection of climate, environment, journalism, civic rights, and active citizenship. The organizations should develop activities in Southeast Asia, Latin America, or in Africa.
- Capacity for collaboration: A track record of co-creating impactful projects with other organizations and operational capacity to manage micro-grant resources from an international organization.
- Alignment with key issues: Proven experience working on the identified topics (climate change, rainforest, ocean, transparency and governance).
Application Process
- A general description of the proposed project in no more than 400 words. This should include the objectives, problem statement and rationale, proposed activities, intended impact of the proposed project, and the Pulitzer Center-supported reporting and, where relevant, the journalist to be involved in this project;
- Description of the target audience and projection (number) of the total audience reached;
- Strategy (or methodology);
- Activity implementation timeline;
- A preliminary budget estimate, including a cost forecast;
- If the proposed activities include knowledge exchange activities with Indigenous peoples or traditional communities, a statement from a community member demonstrating their consent must be submitted. This can be in the form of a message or letter;
- If the activities include content production, a content production and distribution plan should be included;
- A copy of the curriculum vitae (only) of the lead applicant, including a letter of recommendation (from department heads or the directors of your organization / workplace).
For more information and application.
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