NoVo Foundation: Seeking LOIs for Radical Hope Fund to support Strategies for Transformation!

Deadline: 4 October 2017

The NoVo Foundation is seeking Letters of Inquiry (LOIs) for its Radical Hope Fund to support efforts that are bold and imaginative, focused on building the required movements, with efforts that will springboard communities forward in this moment of both crisis and opportunity. This means that people must engage in strategies that are adaptive and that aim for transformation rather than solely incremental change.

In the spirit of boldness and imagination, the Radical Hope Fund will focus on supporting the following essential strategies for change:

• Bringing communities together for cross-issue, cross-sectoral organizing that centers feminist leadership, including but not limited to policy advocacy campaigns
• Global solidarity and transnational movement-building connecting issues and movements that are aligned in their purpose and vision
• Leveraging the power of media, culture, and the arts to engage in storytelling and share ideas, moving hearts and minds for change, including creating new strategic platforms and collaboration between artists/culture-makers and movement organizations
• Seeding experiments in building new structures and systems to propel us into a world that is oriented around interdependence, mutuality, and love rather than domination and extraction, with an emphasis on cultivating local, community-driven solutions

Funding Information

Total Project Budgets should be at least $250,000 per year. In the case of a single organization, project budgets should not exceed 33 percent of the organization’s total annual budget. In the case of some newly formed initiatives/coalitions/campaigns, the project budget may be the same as the total budget of the collaboration, but should not exceed 33 percent of the total combined organizational budgets

How to Apply

LOIs should be submitted online via given website.

For more information, please visit Radical Hope Fund.

Applications Open for USAID’s GDL Center for Digital Development Program!

Deadline: 28 August 2017

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) is seeking applications from qualified U.S. and Non-U.S. organizations for its grant program entitled “GDL Center for Digital Development”.

The objective of this award is to increase the use of and access to digital financial services, mobile and internet, and increase the use of data for strategic planning and adaptive programming within USAID missions, bureaus, and independent offices.

This award will allow USAID programs to make greater impact across its development portfolio by advancing digital tools and approaches in the areas of digital finance, digital inclusion, data analytics and visualization.

Funding Information

• Award Ceiling: $75,000,000
• Award Floor: $60,000,000

Eligibility Criteria

• U.S. organizations, non-US organizations, non-profit, or for-profit entities may participate under this NFO. In accordance with 2 CFR 700.13 no funds will be paid as profit to any for-profit entity receiving or administering Federal financial assistance as a recipient or subrecipient.
• USAID welcomes applications from organizations which have not previously received financial assistance from USAID.
• Applicants must have established financial management, monitoring and evaluation processes, internal control systems, and policies and procedures that comply with established U.S. Government standards, laws, and regulations. The successful applicant will be subject to a responsibility determination assessment (Pre-award Survey) by the Agreement Officer (AO).

How to Apply

Applicants can apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit USAID.

Nominations Open for 2017 Dr Erhard Busek-SEEMO Award for Better Understanding!

Deadline: 20 September 2017

The South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO) is seeking nominations for its “2017 Dr Erhard Busek-SEEMO Award for Better Understanding” in South, Eastern and Central Europe.

Eligible to be nominated are journalists, editors, media executives, media experts, writers or journalism trainers in South, East and Central Europe, who have contributed to promoting better understanding in the region and have worked towards ending minority-related problems, ethnic divisions, racism, xenophobia, gender discrimination, homophobia, etc.

The winner will be awarded EUR 3,000.

The award is sponsored by Dr. Erhard Busek, former Vice-Chancellor of Austria, Jean Monnet Professor ad personam, President of the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe, Coordinator of the Southeast European Cooperative Initiative (SECI) and Former Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe.

How to Apply

Applicants must submit the following materials at the address given on the website:

• Letter of nomination with basic details about the candidate and the reasons why you would like to nominate them, in English by email and registered post;
• Curriculum Vitae of the candidate, in English, by email and registered post;
• Additional materials: please include a list of the candidate’s merits; information about the media outlet(s) that have published and/or broadcast the candidate’s work; relevant material, including copies of articles, TV, video or radio material on a USB-stick.

Eligible Countries: Albania, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Kazakhstan, Kosovo, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia (Republic of Macedonia / FYROM), Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

For more information, please visit SEEMO.

IWMF Call For Applications: Central African Republic (CAR) and Rwanda Reporting Fellowships

Deadline: 29 August 2017

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is currently inviting applicants for its Central African Republic (CAR) And Rwanda Reporting Fellowships to strengthen the role of women journalists worldwide.

Both trips will take place from November 5-18, 2017. All Fellows will begin their trip in Nairobi, Kenya, where they will complete comprehensive security training and an orientation about the African Great Lakes region.

Themes

• Central African Republic (CAR): The Impact of Humanitarian Aid
• Rwanda: Technology and Economic Development

Trip Locations

• The trip to CAR will be based in Bangui.
• The trip to Rwanda will be based in Kigali.

Benefits

• The IWMF arranges travel and in-country logistics for all Fellows.
• The IWMF also covers fellowship-related costs within the framework of the reporting trip including travel, lodging, meals, and fixers/interpreters, unless a selected journalist’s news organization wishes to assume these costs.
• Visa costs will also be covered, but fellows living outside the U.S. are responsible for procuring all necessary visas.

Eligibility Criteria

• All nationalities are welcome to apply.
• Applicants must be affiliated or freelance women journalists with at least three years of professional experience in journalism working in print, broadcast, or digital media.
• Fellows must have excellent written and verbal English skills in order to fully participate in and benefit from the program.
• Applicants must be able to demonstrate support from an editor or have a proven track record of publication in prominent media outlets.

How to Apply

Applicants must apply online via given website.

For more information, please visit IWMF Reporting Trips 2017.

U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia: Building Space for Professional Journalism

Deadline: 25 August 2017

The U.S. Embassy is seeking an implementing partner to conduct a training project for Ethiopian journalists from all regional states under the theme “Building Space for Professional Journalism.”

The goal is to provide journalists with skills to investigate development-related projects in areas such as public health, education, agriculture, humanitarian assistance, and economic livelihoods, and to offer participants opportunities to use the skills they gain from the training to advance professionalism among journalists.

The first phase would involve a series of trainings held in Addis Ababa, Dire Dawa and in all nine regional states.  Multiple trainings will occur in each region, educating journalists on how to understand and to report on various topics (e.g. health, agriculture, education, etc.). Trainings will be open to journalists working for state media as well as independent outlets.  Trainings will be conducted by experts from relevant offices in USAID, CDC, and the Department of State.

Funding Information

• Estimated Total Program Funding: $25,000.00
• Award Ceiling: $25,000.00
• The grant period is from October 2017 to June 2018.

Eligibility Criteria

Media associations, nonprofit and or non-governmental organizations working in the area of media development and communication

How to Apply

Interested organizations may send their proposals at the address given on the website.

Eligible Country: Ethiopia

For more information, please visit U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia.