The Drum Beat 235 - Awards, Fellowships, Grants, and Scholarships
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AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND SCHOLARSHIPS
A number of awards and funding opportunities with deadlines between Feb and May of 2004 are listed below. This is just a small selection of the full listing, which can be found on the Awards Page. Details are in the full descriptions including: the prize, criteria, deadlines and previous winners. Please click on the links provided below for more information.
We would like to continue to build our database of awards in support of communication for development and social change. Please send us information about additional contests, prizes and funding opportunities that address communication for development issues and strategies. Send details and links to Deborah Heimann [email protected] Many thanks!
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AWARDS
1. Special Award for Development Media
For an outstanding community media project or organisation that has made a unique contribution to the communication of sustainable development or human rights.
Deadline: Feb 15 2004
2. IFJ Journalism for Tolerance Prize
An annual competition among journalists from all sectors of media with a simple objective: to promote better understanding among journalists from all communities of the importance of tolerance and defense of human rights, particularly when it comes to reporting on minorities.
Deadline: Feb 27 2004
3. UNICEF/OneWorld Radio Prize: Children's Lives - Children's Voices
For the best radio produced by, for and with children. This programme is looking for radio projects that give children a central role grants them an opportunity to express their view of the world and grabs the attention of listeners.
Deadline: Feb 28 2004
4. 13th Global Painting Contest
Using the theme of "Seas & Oceans", children are asked to convey their vision for a cleaner, healthier and more environmentally-friendly world. All entries will be archived at the National Museums of Ethnology in Japan. Prizes will be awarded for the best 500 entries which will later be used in the production of postcards, a calendar, posters, publications and exhibitions worldwide.
Deadline: Feb 29 2004
5. Award for Best Practices in Global Health
Honours individuals and organisations making significant contributions to the field. Each year, this award showcasing a specific community-based, sustainable and replicable programme addressing a critical global health issue. A US$1,000 stipend will be awarded to allow its recipient a small measure of freedom to pursue their work.
Deadline: Mar 1 2004
6. Images of Communication
A photography competition about the visual interpretation of current communication issues. Entries may cover the following areas: Mass media & alternative media - people reporting, broadcasting, publishing, people as passive or active recipients of mass media; Media & conflict; Communication & HIV/AIDS - combating stigma and discrimination; Media & Gender.
Deadline: Mar 1 2004
7. Prix Ars Electronica 2004: Digital Communities
An international competition for computer-based art. The "Digital Communities" category is open to political, social, and cultural projects from all over the world utilising digital technology to better society and assume social responsibility.
Deadline: Mar 12 2004
8. White Ribbon Contest for Safe Motherhood
Recognises projects that have raised awareness about maternal mortality and have inspired action to reduce these preventable deaths. Award-winning activities have the potential to serve as models in the promotion of safe motherhood, and may be replicated in other regions of the world. A total of 3 awards will be presented, 2 from entrants who have not previously won this contest, and 1 from previous contest winners.
Deadline: Mar 12 2004
9. Maria Moors Cabot Prize
Honours excellence in regional reporting and commitment to press freedom of journalists from the Americas.
Deadline: Apr 1 2004
10. The Tech Museum Awards
Honours innovators and visionaries from around the world who are applying technology to improve the human condition in the categories of education, equality, environment, health, and economic development. Individuals, for-profit companies, and not-for-profit organisations are eligible. 5 Laureates in each category are honored, and US$250,000 in cash prizes are awarded.
Deadline: Apr 5 2004
11. 1000 Women for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005
An initiative to nominate 1000 women for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005 in order to recognise the role of women in peace making and peace building, and to promote documentation, academic research, and networking around these women's peace-building strategies.
Deadline: Apr 30 2004
12. 2004 Awards for Action on HIV/AIDS & Human Rights
Highlights outstanding contributions that decrease vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and protect the rights and dignity of those infected and affected. Presented annually to 1 Canadian and 1 international recipient.
Deadline: May 14 2004
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Seeking Health Heroes
For a possible documentary film or series of short films featuring the often unrecognized individuals who work tirelessly to deliver health services, especially vaccines, to children and their families in remote areas, as well as individuals who have been charismatic community mobilisers - stimulating local social change in health behaviours.
To recommend someone, please contact Heidi Larson [email protected] with their name and a few words about why you think they should be profiled in such a series. Deadline: Feb 20 2004.
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FELLOWSHIPS
13. International Philanthropy Fellows Program
An opportunity for advanced study, research, and training for up to 8 participants each year who are involved in studying or managing private nonprofit, or philanthropic organisations outside of the United States, or working as NGO liaisons in the public or commercial sectors.
Deadline: Feb 25 2004
14. The Foster Davis Fellowships for African Journalists
Seeking 5 fellows who are accomplished journalists positioned for expanded leadership roles and who have a demonstrated commitment to helping other journalists.
Deadline: Feb 27 2004
15. Rockefeller Resident Fellowship Program
The University Center for International Studies (UCIS) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides this fellowship opportunity to scholars, professionals and artists. The 2004 theme is "Immigrants, Minorities, and the Specter of Race." The programme explores emergent voices of new immigrants in the globalising American south and their encounters in civil society and the provisioning of public goods, such as education, media, social welfare, and health care. Preference will be given to those applicants focusing on immigration, media, media literacy and gender issues. Fellowships may range from 3-12 months.
Deadline: Feb 28 2004
16. The Kaiser Media Fellowships in Health
A mid-career programme for print, broadcast or online reporters and editors interested in health policy, health financing and public health. The purpose of the programme is to help journalists and commentators do the best possible job of keeping the public informed about health issues at this time in the evolution of the United States health care system.
Deadline: Mar 12 2004
17. Five College African Scholars Program
Competitive residency fellowships for junior and mid-level teaching staff employed full-time in African universities. Projects relevant to the study of Africa are welcomed in the humanities and social sciences. Each scholar will receive a stipend of US$3,000 per month subject to US taxes, airfare to and from the USA, laptop computer, housing, health insurance, access to libraries, an office, and a modest research allowance.
Deadline: May 1 2004
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POLL
Do you agree or disagree?
Training workshops for journalists, the main approach used by development agencies seeking improved media coverage of development issues, cannot demonstrate significant improvements in such coverage.
[For context, please see The Drum Beat 234]
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GRANTS & SCHOLARSHIPS
18. Global Access Grant
Aims to support women's participation in international events such as seminars, conferences, trainings related to women's rights issues. The objective is to facilitate the access of women active in this field to the international movement for the emancipation of women.
19. Mama Cash: Sexual & Reproductive Rights
Aims to support women's groups that champion a woman's right to control her own body. Applications for The Netherlands and Europe as well as the Global South (Asia & the Middle East, Africa, Latin America & the Caribbean) and the former Soviet Union, can be submitted throughout the entire year. The average grant ranges from US$2,000 to $10,000.
Deadline: Rolling
20. IT Scholarships for Asian Women Journalists
For Asian women journalists working in the media and other communication sectors. The programme, which provides a total of 430 scholarships, is intended for women in the Asian countries of Bangladesh, Mongolia, Nepal and Sri Lanka.
Deadline: Feb 28 2004
21. IT Scholarships for North African Women Journalists
For North African women journalists working in the media and other communication sectors. The programme, which provides a total of 430 scholarships, is intended for women in the African countries of Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia.
Deadline: May 31 2004
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This issue was written by Shawna Gibbs.
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