Templates from Award-Winning Proposals

Learn how successful reporters structured their grants and budgets.

Several journalism colleagues and friends have graciously shared their exceptional successful applications as templates to help
the news community. 

 

Grant Application Prep Sheet
This prep sheet from journalist Diane Sylvester is useful for preparing grant applications for individual reporting projects. Several additional prompts that could be used for institutional grant applications are included.

 

Individual Grant Applications

 

Yemen’s Vanishing Sardines: Illegal Fishmeal Factories and the Collapse of Coastal Livelihoods for Pulitzer Center. Shared by Mohammed Hafeedh

 

My American Association for the Advancement of Science Mass Media Fellowship Application Guide. Shared by Sumeet Kulkarni

 

Advice for Applying to the AAAS Mass Media Fellowship. Shared by Brittany Trang. (Brittany also has an unsuccessful application to the same program, for comparison)

 

The New Pentecost: Immigration and Christian Revival in Europe, preliminary project proposal | 📊 Includes budget. Shared by Damaso Reyes

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Counting All the Karens for Soros Justice Fellowship, shared by Lam Thuy Vo | 📊 Budget Included

 

Information Futures Lab, shared by Lam Thuy Vo

 

Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Lab, shared by Lam Thuy Vo | 📊 Budget Included

 

USC Center for Health Journalism, shared by Monique Welch

 

Reclaiming Themselves: Black Women and Hair Loss for Rosalynn Carter Fellowships for Mental Health Journalism. Shared by Chanté Griffin

 

Application to study “movement journalism” at Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab, shared by Lewis Wallace

 

Institutional/Team Grant Applications

 

Metro Detroit Health Equity Reporting Project

By New York & Michigan Solutions Journalism Collaborative

 

Latino Health Equity Project

By the Record-Journal of Connecticut

It takes under 2 minutes. We’ll handle any formatting and redactions.