The Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) is seeking applications for its Local Journalism Fund to build stronger and more engaged communities and address inequities faced by BIPOC residents.
Donor Name: Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)
State: California
Counties: San Mateo County (CA) and Santa Clara County (CA)
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 04/15/2022
Size of the Grant: $30,000
Details:
SVCF partners with BIPOC residents, storytellers, journalists, and media nonprofits to inform and engage communities, create public dialogue and spark action. They accomplish this by supporting BIPOC-led organizations that are shining light on untold and underreported stories, highlighting hyper-local issues, and addressing the news and information gap in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
Through this grant program, SVCF supports BIPOC-led organizations that are advancing:
- Fact-based community storytelling strategies where BIPOC residents play an active role in shaping the narrative about the community in which they live
- Collaborative journalistic arrangements to address issues affecting BIPOC communities
- Civic media efforts rooted in BIPOC communities’ values, attributes, and aspirations to advance community action
Funding for community storytelling, collaborative journalism, and civic media is part of a long-term strategy to achieve systemic change in Silicon Valley. Organizations seeking to apply should have a clear focus on racial justice and a strategy to center the community or communities they are serving in the leadership, design, and implementation of the work they do. Priority will be given to BIPOC-led organizations and their allies, and those with annual budgets under $1 million.
Funding Information
- The maximum grant amount will be $30,000.
Eligibility Criteria
- Placed-based, language-specific, and BIPOC-led media organizations telling the stories of the local Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Indigenous, Latinx, and Middle Eastern communities living in their region
- Journalistic organizations working to foster fair and accurate media coverage of LGBTQ issues in their community
- BIPOC-led organizations use storytelling tools, video, audio, photography, paintings, text, or animation to provide insights, information, and facts about current issues and shine the light on the diversity of stories, perspectives, and lived experiences that make up their diverse community
- Journalistic organizations working to develop fair and illuminating coverage of poverty and injustice in their community, especially as those topics intersect with the lives of the communities listed above
- Local nonprofit journalistic organizations rooted in underserved communities or in communities where news and information channels are limited or nonexistent
- Local nonprofit news organizations dedicated to independent, investigative, and solutions-based journalism
- Bay Area community-driven media channels that use traditional and/or emerging technologies and social media platforms to spur civic engagement, educate citizens, and strengthen their democracy
- Organizations must serve San Mateo and/or Santa Clara counties. Organizations headquartered outside the two-county region may apply but should demonstrate significant service to these areas or partner with a local organization that does
- Organizations must have a 501(c)(3) designation or have a fiscal sponsor with a 501(c)(3) designation
- Organizations must not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, citizenship status, creed, religion, religious affiliation, age, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, veteran status, or any other protected status
- Organizations with religious affiliations will be considered for funding only if the project for which they seek support addresses the needs of the wider community without regard to religious beliefs
For more information, visit Community Action Grants.
