The Christopher Kolade Foundation SHE Soars Scholarship Program provides need-based financial sponsorship and mentorship to female graduates of public secondary schools in Nigeria who have secured admission into a Nigerian public university.SHE Soars launched in 2019 with five SHE Soars Scholars benefitting from the scholarship program.
ELIGIBILITY:
To be eligible, applicants must be female graduates of a Nigerian public secondary school and must have verifiable proof of admission into a Nigerian public tertiary institution.
The sponsorship duration would span the student’s entire course of study which in our estimate would be 4-6 years depending on the course of study.
BENEFIT:
The scholarship value is pegged at N200,000/annum and is estimated to cover tuition, books, and a modest monthly living stipend.
This grant facility supports enabling activities and supporting services for environmental investigative journalism as a whole. It seeks to promote collective development and support services for environmental investigative journalism, by providing funding to project ideas from organisations and institutions for training and professional development programmes, i.e. skills-focused professional training or fellowship programmes targeted at enabling investigative journalists to upskill with regards to reporting on environment related issues.
ELIGIBILITY:
Any incorporated legal entity can apply. In the application it should describe its experience with investigative journalism, environmental issues, and/or the development of supporting services. The proposed project should contribute to the further development of environmental investigative journalism in Europe.
Applying entities do not necessarily need to be based in Europe. However, the proposed project should clearly advance investigative environmental journalism in Europe.
If the project is a collaboration between several organisations, one organisation should apply for the Journalismfund Europe grant. In the application form you can provide information about the partnering organisations and their role in the project.
If a grant is awarded, the applying organisation is responsible for the project and the grant towards Journalismfund Europe.
In the budget that is part of the application, only personnel costs of the applying organisation can be listed under ‘Personnel costs’. All costs of partner organisations should be listed under ‘Operating costs’.
BENEFIT:
The total available amount per call to be distributed among all supported projects will be around €115,000.