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November 15, 2024 to December 13, 2024

IIJ Freelance Webinar Series

This fall, the Institute for Independent Journalists is offering free monthly webinars to help you strengthen your freelance journalism practice. The series continues Nov 15, 2024 with "The Impact of Layoffs - and How to Weather Them." 12-1:15 p.m. ET.

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August 31, 2023

US EPA Webinar: Food Sovereignty (Part 2) – Food Forests & Sustainable Healthy Foods

This EPA webinar will focus on how forests are an important source of healthy foods for tribal and Indigenous communities. Learn how tribes, tribal communities, indigenous communities, and any interested community can work with forest managers to access and support food forests.

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July 24, 2023

DEADLINE: USC Annenberg Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems

This program supports investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in public health, health care policy and the practice of medicine, including inequity in treatment, access to care, patient experience and health outcomes for Black people, Indigenous people and other people of color. Apply by Jul 24, 2023.

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July 31, 2024

DEADLINE: AXS Film Fund

AXS Film Fund is for creators of color in documentary or nonfiction new media who identify as living with a disability. Up to five creators annually can receive $10,000 each to assist them in finishing their projects in any stage of production. Deadline is Jul 31, 2024.

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The Community We’ve Long Ignored

Veteran environmental justice reporter Yessenia Funes this week launches “Voices of Environmental Justice,” her new SEJournal column. Each quarterly commentary will focus on spotlighting the perspectives of affected communities that environmental and climate journalists often ignore. For her inaugural entry, with Pride month nearing its end, a look at how climate change and environmental pollution exacerbate the already elevated health risks of LGBTQIA+ people.

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August 12, 2024

DEADLINE: CBC Indigenous Pathways to Journalism

CBC's paid, full-time, 9-month learning and development opportunity supports seven First Nations, Inuit or Métis candidates to hone their skills as storytellers in CBC newsrooms across Canada. Apply by Aug 5 or 12, 2024 (by location).

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July 28, 2023

DEADLINE: IJNR Klamath River Institute

The Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources invites applications until July 28 for an expenses-paid Institute for journalists, Sep 17-23, 2023 (tentative), to explore the Klamath River Basin from southern Oregon to northern California, and investigate the impact of the removal of four dams beginning later this year.

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June 30, 2023

DEADLINE: Eyewitness Photojournalism Grant

Diversify Photo and the Pulitzer Center invite applications from photojournalists worldwide for stories on systemic and underreported issues in our communities, including but not limited to racial justice, climate change, environmental justice, gender equality and human rights. Three $3,000 awards. Deadline: Jun 30, 2023.

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Grant Prompts Improved Coverage of Indigenous Perspectives at Bears Ears

Inspired by a discussion at a Society of Environmental Journalists conference, freelancer Rico Moore (pictured, left) applied for a Fund for Environmental Journalism grant to report on Bears Ears National Monument. Then, armed with advice for better covering Indigenous communities and Native American tribes, Moore found a new way to write about the cultural and environmental richness of those lands. His experience, in the new FEJ StoryLog.

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May 9, 2023

The Solutions Project: 5th Annual Report on Climate Solutions Narrative Trends

Join The Solutions Project's Instagram Live conversation on the findings of its 5th annual report tracking the extent to which coverage of climate issues — including renewable energy, water, and food systems — focuses on equity, highlights community-led solutions, and features women as spokespeople. 3:00 p.m. ET.

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