Funding for Community News Ventures

Posted by on December 1, 2006

[posted from RFP Bulletin]

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism Offers New Voices Funding to Launch Community News Ventures
Deadline: February 20, 2007

J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism (<a href="http://www.j-lab.org/">http://www.j-lab.org/</a>) invites U.S. nonprofit groups and education organizations to apply for funding through its New Voices program, (<a href="http://www.j-newvoices.org/">http://www.j-newvoices.org/</a>) which is designed to launch new community news ventures and to cooperate with J-Lab in spotlighting best practices and lessons learned.

Groups eligible to apply for funding under the initiative are 501(c)(3) organizations and education institutions, including civic groups, community organizations, public broadcasters, schools, colleges, and universities.

Funding is available for start-up news initiatives only. Ongoing efforts are not eligible to apply unless they are proposing a new venture. Funding is available for print and electronic news initiatives, including online, cable, broadcast, narrowcast, satellite, and mobile efforts. Only projects based in the United States may apply.

Under the New Voices project, J-Lab will select ten projects in 2007. Each project may receive as much as $17,000 in three tiers over two years.

New Voices is funded by the John F. and James L. Knight Foundation (http://www.knightfdn.org/). Proposals from as many as three of the twenty-six communities where the Knight brothers owned newspapers will be given special consideration. (See the list of communities in the Community Partners Program at the Knight Foundation Web site.)

See the J-Lab Web site for complete program guidelines and examples of funded projects.

RFP Link: <a href="http://www.j-newvoices.org/index.php/site/story/2005rfp/">http://www.j-newvoices.org/index.php/site/story/2005rfp/</a>

For additional RFPs in Journalism/Media, visit: <a href="http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_journalism.jhtml">http://foundationcenter.org/pnd/rfp/cat_journalism.jhtml</a>