Deadline: 14-Mar-21
The U.S. Consulate General Ho Chi Minh City’s Public Affairs Section (PAS) is pleased to announce available funding for the American Center Ho Chi Minh City’s Journalism Club.
Proposals for projects must focus on one of the priority journalism programs and target audiences specified below:
- Media Literacy: Course or workshop aimed at students and young professionals focusing on critical reading of news sources, identifying disinformation, and responsible social media use.
- Data Journalism: Course aimed at journalists and editors focusing on data visualization, developing info graphics (including graphs, maps, etc.), data sources, and data cleaning.
- Investigative Reporting: Course or workshop aimed at media professionals focusing on investigative techniques, developing sources, and story development.
- Video storytelling: Course aimed at students and/or professionals on using videos to tell stories, from storyboard development, filming, and editing techniques, to product promotion on an online platform.
- American Journalism: Course or workshop for university journalism students introducing major U.S. outlets and current trends in American media.
- English for Journalists and Media Professionals: Course aimed at journalists and editors focusing on topics such as interviews, written English, and grammar.
- “This Week”: Course for university journalism students focusing on developing a weekly news broadcast. Focus can be on story development, delivering news in English, and production.
- Podcasting: Course or workshop aimed at students and young professionals on developing story-telling skills, podcast platforms, citizen journalism, and marketing of podcasts.
Funding Information
- Award Amount will vary between $1,000 and $15,000. Proposals over $15,000 will be considered only with a cost share and on a case-by-case basis. Proposals which include a cost share are strongly encouraged and have a higher likelihood of being funded.
- Duration should be a minimum of six months and a maximum of one year.
Target Audience: The target audiences for successful projects are Vietnamese students and young professionals ages 18-35.
Priority Region: Only activities implemented/conducted in the American Center in Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam will be funded.
Eligibility Criteria
Submissions are encouraged from U.S. and Vietnamese entities with relevant programming and/or teaching experience. This experience should be documented in the proposal. Eligible entities include:
- registered not-for-profit, civil society/non-governmental organizations
- universities; non-profit educational institutions
- individuals
For more information, visit https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/view-opportunity.html?oppId=330860