Africa - Impact Seed Fund Grant

Note: It is mandatory for applicants to read through the full version guidelines provided.
Pulitzer Center
The Pulitzer Center has a bold vision: to be the venue for the world’s most innovative and consequential reporting, with journalism as the key element for mobilizing society through audience engagement strategies.
Themes:

• Climate & LaborRainforest
• Transparency and Governance
• Ocean

The Impact Seed Funding (ISF) is a micro-scale education grant that aims to support a range of education activities that can enrich the perspectives and knowledge on the socio-ecological challenges, solutions, and innovation about issues of rainforest, oceans, climate and labor crisis impact to the university/school community, specifically students and educators.
The main objective of the grant is to cultivate more curious, informed, empathetic communities on the underreported issues of Oceans and Climate change. Ultimately it aims to inspire change of perspectives, narratives, and actions amongst the communities. The Africa ISF projects will put the Pulitzer Center’s Climate & Labor, Rainforest, Transparency and Governance as well as Oceans Reporting Network (ORN) stories at the center of its engagement and activities.
The Africa ISF will provide micro-scale grants to:

• Initiate new collaborations or develop existing collaborations among teachers, researchers, students, and journalists;
• Increase engagement between education communities, journalists, and local communities;

Stimulate the use of creative visuals (e.g., comics, animated videos, photos, short videos, documentary, podcasts), data visuals and information from the reportages in teaching materials, student activities, curriculum and class materials, or scientific publications;
Stimulate the introduction and promotion of DEI friendly tools in teaching materials, student activities, curriculum and scientific publications. (DEI = Diversity, Equity and Inclusion). Gender equality and Handicap issues among young students to be prioritized.
Facilitate the adoption of featured findings in the reportages to relevant research and other scientific products.
Requirements
The project must center around the stories reported by the Rainforest Grantees and Fellows or Climate & Labor grantees;
The activity must showcase an intended impact towards the audience of the academic/school community (students or Fellow lecturers/researchers), or civil society;
The project must be implemented in consultation with the relevant Pulitzer Center’s grantees or Fellows;
The project must demonstrate a strong Diversity, Equity and Inclusion approach;
Applicants must deliver financial and narrative reports at the end of the grant period, detailing costs and results.
Type of Activities
Examples of successful ISF grant activities and outputs may include, but are not limited to:

• Student Engagement:
• Insertion in teaching materials, on-campus debates, social issues hackathons, student-led debates and dialogues
• Visuals production and dissemination (short videos, documentary, podcast, content);
• On-campus mini exhibition
• Journalism workshop for student press clubs
• Mobility/local Community Engagement:
• Knowledge exchange activities, student visits, biodiversity expeditions, citizen journalism
• Support for Research Activities:
• Data adoption to improve ongoing research accuracy, insertion of data or knowledge in a book chapter

Eligibility

Applicants must be:lecturers or researchers,k12 teachers,Student groups based in Africa