All: Threats to Democracy

Sponsor: Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
Funding Opportunity Title: Threats to Democracy
Key words: Democracy, Misinformation, Mass media, journalism, documentary film
Link to RFP: https://pulitzercenter.org/grants-fellowships/opportunities-journalists/threats-democracy-us
Deadline: Applications accepted on a rolling basis.
Funding available: We do not have a budget range. We will consider projects of any scope and size, and we are open to supporting multiple projects each year.
Period of performance: not specified
Program background: This opportunity is open to all newsrooms and independent journalists in the United States. We value data, investigative, and accountability journalism projects that tackle systemic issues and hold to account powerful local figures. You decide what underreported stories your community needs to engage with, and we support that reporting and champion it, including creating educational materials and organizing events to expand the reach of your stories and the conversation about them.
Program Objective: The Pulitzer Center is seeking proposals for enterprise stories that focus on threats to democratic institutions in the United States. Topics can include, but are not limited to, voting suppression; misinformation and disinformation; intimidation of election officials; politicization of election systems; political violence; dark money; and extremism/militias.
NOTE: Indirect costs are not allowed.

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