The Drum Beat 587 - Awards and Funding
This issue includes:
- 6 AWARDS opportunities.
- Build your own Social NETWORKING space via The CI!
- 7 MORE awards.
- 7 FUNDING opportunities.
This issue of The Drum Beat includes a selective medley of awards and funding opportunities with deadlines between June 2011 and September 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.
AWARDS
1. Rory Peck Awards
Recognising freelance cameramen and camerawomen from around the world who have created footage in news and current affairs - especially in regions where it is difficult to operate as a news gatherer...
Deadline: June 6 2011
2. Asia-Pacific Child Rights Award
Honouring broadcasters and producers among the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union (ABU) and the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia (CASBAA) for top-quality television programming on a child rights issue and better news coverage of children's issues...
Deadline: June 15 2011
3. Sheila McKechnie Foundation Awards
Inviting nominations of people campaigning to make a positive change in society through training and development opportunities over six months, provided in support packages, to help awardees acquire skills and knowledge to become a more effective campaigner, including advice on how to get media coverage, fresh ideas to boost the campaign profile, and/or tips on how to influence politicians. This includes 8 United Kingdom awards and one international award...
Deadline: June 20 1011
4. Gleitsman International Activist Award
Inviting nominations for individuals in the international community who have inspired change and motivated others in the realm of social activism - making a difference in their communities or countries...
Deadline: June 30 2011
5. Daniel Pearl Awards
Seeking entries from any journalist or team of journalists of any nationality working in cross-border investigative journalism. Entries must involve reporting in at least two countries on a topic of world significance...
Deadline: July 1 2011
6. PLURAL+ Video Festival Awards
Encouraging youth ages 9 to 25 to submit short videos promoting harmony in diverse societies for the PLURAL+ Video Festival to be held at the Paley Center for Media in New York City, New York, United States (US). PLURAL+ is a video festival for youth-produced media aimed at building a more inclusive, tolerant society...
Deadline: July 1 2011
Build Your Own Social Networking Space
Looking to network within your organisation? Needing to link together colleagues from different organisations under one project? Contract The CI to build you a branded social networking space using core CI functionality. You can see a customised example click here (you will have to join and log in to see all functionality.) For more information, contact [email protected]
7. International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB) Award
Encouraging youth participation in media throughout the year and inviting entries from participants in the annual International Children's Day of Broadcasting (ICDB). The competition is open to radio and television broadcasters who participated in the 2011 ICDB with programmes on the theme "Girls Are... Boys Are..."
Deadline: July 1 2011
8. Anna Lindh Journalist Award
Recognising positive media works addressing issues of cultural diversity and intercultural relations. The award is open to journalists who are nationals of one of the 43 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean...
Deadline: July 15 2011
Encouraging the active participation of young people under 30 years of age in youth-led projects in the emerging information society. The award is intended to be a global 'youth for youth' initiative for selecting and promoting best practice in e-content and technological creativity, demonstrating young people's potential to create digital opportunities...
Deadline: July 15 2011
Inviting entries for this prize, which celebrates the power of art in any creative field to promote social justice, build foundations for open societies, and inspire the human spirit. Two categories are the Main prize and the Imprisoned Artist prize...
Deadline: July 30 2011
11. International Peace Pals Art Competition and Exhibition
Inviting children throughout the world between the ages of 5 and 16 to submit artwork with the theme 'May Peace Prevail on Earth'...
Deadline: July 30 2011
Inviting media and communication professionals from the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (APC) group of states to participate in a competition aiming to encourage investigation of challenges and opportunities in providing extension and advisory services to farmers...
Deadline: August 15 2011
Inviting nominations of women activists, journalists, and artists (individuals or groups) - especially young women - who work at the grassroots level with socially marginalised peoples in order to create a 21st century free from war and discrimination against women. It is coupled with the Yayori Journalist Award, which focuses on women journalists and artists who vividly describe and transmit the situation of women in the world with a gender perspective...
Deadline: August 25 2011
FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES
14. JustFilms Documentary and Media Support Funding
Inviting grant seekers to submit film, video, and digital works that show courageous people confronting difficult issues and actively pursuing a more just, secure, and sustainable world...
Deadline: Rolling
14. Language Rights Fellowship
Supporting advocacy initiatives that strengthen intra-national and international multilingualism in Southern Africa, with the overall objective of supporting indigenous languages serving the needs of their speakers in all spheres of life...
Deadline: Rolling
15. Shuttleworth Foundation Fellowship Programme
Enabling individuals to implement their own innovative ideas for social change in the world through both the individual Fellowship grant and an enabling support structure and an existing network of social change agents...
Deadline: Rolling
16. Rory Peck Training Fund Bursary
Making it possible for freelance media workers (broadcast and print) to take "Hostile Environments / Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear" awareness training courses with approved course providers...
Deadline: Rolling
17. The Knight International Journalism Fellowships
Sending international media professionals to countries where there are opportunities to promote reliable, insightful journalism that holds officials accountable - with the goal of improving the quality and free flow of news in the public interest around the world...
Deadline: Rolling
Focusing on sustainable community action projects, programmes, or organisations created by young people aged 25 and under. The seed grants fund supports starting a community action project or programme to put ideas into action...
Deadline: Rolling
19. African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) Small Grants Programme (SGP)
Supporting small, community/rural-based grassroots women's groups in Ghana, Uganda, Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Nigeria that would otherwise not be able to access the AWDF's main funding programme...
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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