Hillman Labor and Workplace Reporting Grants

Sidney Hillman Foundation

The Sidney Hillman Foundation honors excellence in journalism in service of the common good.

Our awards and programs honor the legacy and vision of union pioneer and New Deal architect Sidney Hillman.

Labor and Workplace Reporting Grants

Hillman’s reporting grants are intended to support ambitious, timely, under-covered stories about the U.S workplace. The grants are part of the foundation’s efforts to improve coverage of working people, union organizing and the workplace. They are also intended to help support freelance reporters, especially during the coronavirus pandemic. The demand for more and deeper reporting on the workplace comes as government regulation has decreased, changing work arrangements have upended standard employment practices, and new groups of workers are organizing to seek protections on the job. At the same time, news organizations, facing their own financial pressures, have not been investing the way they once did in coverage of the workplace and some parts of the country no longer have thriving local news outlets. The aim of these reporting grants is to increase the likelihood that a labor or workplace story will get covered despite potential impediments like geographic location, lack of attention or resources. These grants are intended to cover the costs of reporting these vital stories, such as travel and related expenses.

Examples of story ideas might be:

• Union or anti-union campaigns
• traditional or nontraditional workplace organizing efforts
• profiles of important or under-covered individuals or organizations
• issue-based stories relating to labor and the workplace.

Funding

The maximum grant will be $5,000, but we expect to award grants of varying amounts, so feel free to apply for smaller budget stories.

Eligibility

_You can learn more about this opportunity by visiting the funder's website._

• The reporting grants are open to all professional journalists.
  • Freelance journalists must secure a media outlet to run their story before funds are dispersed.
• We are open to any medium as long as the proposal meets the criteria.