DEADLINE: The Bertha Challenge

Event Date: 
July 4, 2023

Bertha Foundation annually offers the Bertha Challenge: an opportunity for activists and investigative journalists to spend a year deep-diving into one pressing social justice challenge. Successful applicants will receive non-residential paid fellowships and project budgets to work independently and together to:

  • INVESTIGATE the causes of and solutions to the annual Bertha Challenge
  • AMPLIFY their findings to a wider targeted audience
  • CONNECT with diverse stakeholders for information, support and impact

The next Bertha Challenge will begin in January 2024 with a disinformation and the climate crisis, specifically supporting Bertha Fellows to answer the following question:

"How is disinformation manipulating and distorting the impact of the human-caused climate crisis? How do disinformation campaigns help to protect corporate interests, the political status quo and allow for further industrial corruption, all of which prioritizes profit over people and planet?"

The fellowships offer income for each Bertha Fellow for one year, not exceeding USD $64,900 and commensurate with the applicant’s current or equivalent salary at the host organization — ideally a media outlet for an investigative journalist and an NGO, community organization or social movement for an activist; project funding of up to USD $10,000 for each Bertha Fellow to produce a culminating product that responds to the question posed by the Bertha Challenge; access to a Connect Fund of up to USD $5,000; and more.

Priority consideration will be given to activists and investigative journalists who apply jointly.

Deadline is Jul 4, 2023.

 

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