Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice
The Lipman Center’s Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice seeks to illuminate the inequalities and what has gone wrong in the American criminal justice system.
Donor Name: Lipman Center
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 03/15/2024
Size of the Grant: $10,000 to $100,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
The project provides local newsrooms and reporters the financial assistance and professional collaboration they might need to pursue major reporting projects in their communities on law enforcement, prosecutorial, judicial and incarceration racial and human rights abuses.
The Criminal Justice Initiative amplifies the Lipman Center’s mission of reporting in the public interest on civil and human rights and comes at a crucial juncture in the history of race and rights in the United States.
The toll of inequality within the criminal justice system has seldom been more apparent. This program is meant to heighten the awareness of the specific problems and implications of particular practices and policies in criminal justice in hopes of spurring productive institutional change.
Funding Information
Under the auspices of the Lipman Center, the Initiative in Reporting on Race and Criminal Justice will annually award up to five grants ranging from $30,000 to $50,000 each to individual newsrooms and independent journalists to pursue a yearlong project in criminal justice abuse. The funds may be used for data acquisition, analysis and visualization, additional staff, FOIA requests, or travel, public health conditions permitting.
Eligibility Criteria
Applications are open to all local newsrooms; grants must be completed within a year.
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