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AAUW INTERNATIONAL PROJECT GRANTS

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Application Deadline: November 15, 2024

LOCATION: USA

International Project Grants support community-based initiatives that advance gender equity for women and girls and that are led by AAUW International Fellowship Alumnae. These grants equip and empower alumnae to do so within the context of their home countries and communities by making funding available to them in order to apply their academic expertise and leadership skills in a way that has a direct, positive impact on women and girls.

ELIGIBILITY:

International Project Grants are awarded exclusively to individuals.

Applicants must be or identify as a woman

Applicants must be an AAUW International Fellowship alumna and have successfully completed the academic program for which they received a fellowship and all related reporting requirements by June 30th of the year of application.

Applicants must reside and implement the proposed project in their home country for the duration of the grant period.

Applicants must be the primary project director, with control over all programmatic, budgetary, administrative and editorial decisions.

Grant recipients must be non-U.S. citizens or permanent residents.

BENEFIT:

Award Ceiling: $10,000
Grant Term: July 1, 2025 – June 30, 2026
Grant funds must be maintained in an account dedicated to project purposes.

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JOURNALISM AI INNOVATION CHALLENGE, SUPPORTED BY THE GOOGLE NEWS INITIATIVE

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Application Deadline: 10 October 2024 [23:59, GMT].

LOCATION: Multiple Regions

The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects/tools from these news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new formats across mobile, video and audio and identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue.

ELIGIBILITY:

Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.

Eligible applicants must have a verifiable digital presence (such as a website primarily providing journalistic content) and have been in full operation – and active with recent content – for at least 12 months preceding the call for applications

Eligible applicants must be able to launch, implement, and measure the impact of the grant on their organisation within a maximum nine (9) month period.

This is not a reporting or storytelling grant and funding must not be used to report and produce stories primarily. Eligible ideas will use AI to focus and develop solutions for these thematic areas:

Help fight misinformation and disinformation

Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.

Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.

You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a short report of your performance at the end of the programme.

BENEFIT:

Grants will be awarded as follows:

10 ideas will receive $250,000 each

25 ideas will receive $50,000 each

Organisations will express which amount they are applying for in the application form.

Applicants may work on an existing proof-of-concept or submit an entirely new idea that they would like to develop into a working prototype by the end of the programme. (Please refer to Application Terms and Conditions for details)

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