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 | đź“Š 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 | đź“Š 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
By the Record-Journal of Connecticut
It takes under 2 minutes. We’ll handle any formatting and redactions.