CivicAction DiverseCity Fellows Program 2025
Program Overview
CivicAction’s DiverseCity Fellows program is a respected year-long experience for leaders from diverse communities and backgrounds across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) who have demonstrated experience in civic change-making and are looking to amplify their leadership skills, grow their network, explore social issues, and drive positive change in our communities.
Over the course of the program year, approximately 25 chosen applicants, or Fellows, will use self-assessment tools and personalized leadership development plans, and participate in skills-building sessions to develop key leadership competencies, strengthen cross-sectoral connections, and drive tangible change.
Upon program completion, participants will join a powerful network comprised of hundreds of DiverseCity Fellows alumni, mentors, and city-builders from across the region.
Who Should Apply
- Civic-minded leaders in the early-to-mid stages of their careers, spanning various industries and sectors, who are committed to making our region a more inclusive and better place to live and work.
- Individuals from all ethno-cultural backgrounds, religions, genders, abilities, and political viewpoints from across the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area, especially those from underrepresented communities.
- Individuals with a demonstrated history of leadership in their communities / sector (professional and/or volunteer).
- Creative problem-solvers who are collaborative, empathetic, inclusive, and results-oriented.
How to Apply
The deadline to apply for CivicAction’s DiverseCity Fellows is 11:59 PM (EST) on Friday, October 4, 2024.
Please complete the online application form and ensure that you upload the following documents in PDF format at the end:
- 2-page resume/CV
- 1 Recommendation Form completed by your current or previous employer*
- 1 Recommendation Form completed by your personal reference.
For More Information Visit, CivicAction DiverseCity Programme
JournalismAI Innovation Challenge 2024-2025
Enabling publishers to experiment, implement and share best practices of AI technologies
While many, mainly larger and some well resourced newsrooms have benefited and seen the transformative power of AI, smaller newsrooms often face unique challenges in adopting this technology. A number of small and medium-sized publishers are already exploring the possibilities of AI technologies. The JournalismAI Innovation Challenge, supported by the Google News Initiative, aims to fund projects from these news publishers to help fight misinformation and disinformation, experiment with new formats across mobile, video and audio and identify ways to grow subscription and support diverse forms of revenue.
- Government-owned entities or entities affiliated/owned by a political party are not eligible to apply.
- Eligible applicants must have a verifiable digital presence (such as a website primarily providing journalistic content) and have been in full operation - and active with recent content - for at least 12 months preceding the call for applications
- Eligible applicants must be able to launch, implement, and measure the impact of the grant on their organisation within a maximum nine (9) month period.
- This is not a reporting or storytelling grant and funding must not be used to report and produce stories primarily. Eligible ideas will use AI to focus and develop solutions for these thematic areas:
- Help fight misinformation and disinformation
- Experiment with new formats to engage new and existing audiences across mobile, video, audio.
- Identify ways to grow subscriptions and support diverse forms of revenue.
- You are willing to share business insights and openly collaborate with other grantees, as well as track results throughout and submit a short report of your performance at the end of the programme.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT, JournalismAI Innovation Challenge
Kone Foundation Grant Programme 2024
For grant applicants
Kone Foundation supports research in the humanities, social sciences and environmental sciences, as well as artistic research. We support artistic work in all fields of art, as well as multidisciplinary work combining art and research. The next annual grant call will be held 1–15 September, 2024.
Kone Foundation funds academic research in humanities, social sciences, and environmental sciences, artistic research, and professional artistic work. Additionally, we fund cross-disciplinary and multidisciplinary work between the fields and disciplines supported by the Foundation.
Criteria for applying
An individual, a working group or a legal entity can apply for a grant from Kone Foundation. If you’re applying as a legal entity, you need to have a Finnish business ID.
Where can funding be applied for?
Kone Foundation grants can be applied for:
- academic research in the humanities, social sciences, environmental sciences and artistic research
- professional artistic work in all fields of art
- multidisciplinary work in the above-mentioned fields of art and research
- promotion of academic and/or artistic work in the above-mentioned fields (e.g. a project developing the field)
- promotion and dissemination of academic and/or artistic work in the above-mentioned fields (e.g., research popularisation, artistic outreach, events and publications)
- other cultural work; but this is rarely funded
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT, KONE FOUNDATION GRANT
International News Media Association (INMA) Elevate Scholarship 2024
ABOUT THE ELEVATE SCHOLARSHIP
The Elevate Scholarship programme is designed to strengthen the future of the news business by embracing and elevating historically under-represented and disadvantaged groups in early- to mid-level positions at news media companies in all regions of the world.
Criteria for selection
Criteria: INMA will award up to 50 Elevate Scholarships based on the applicant’s needs, aspirations, barriers, and the stories they tell in the application process.
Who should apply: The Elevate Scholarship is for early- to mid-level career professionals at a news media company who have a passion for the business of news media. Individuals who apply will be looking to grow their career and gather fundamental skills needed to create a sustainable business model for the future of journalism and news media. Applicants must demonstrate how they’re currently involved in the business of news media and articulate what business skills they would like to obtain in the areas of subscriptions, product, data, advertising, and the business of newsrooms.
FOR MORE INFORMATION and APPLICATION VISIT, Elevate Scholarship
MFWA DPI Journalism Fellowship 2024
MFWA DPI Journalism Fellowship
The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), with funding support and in partnership with Co-Develop, is launching Phase II of the Digital Public Infrastructure Journalism Fellowship Programme. This initiative aims to elevate public awareness, stimulate debates, foster inclusivity, and encourage participation and uptake of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) and Digital Public Goods (DPG) issues across West Africa.
The fellowship seeks to host a cohort of 60 experienced journalists from Benin, Ghana, Nigeria, and Togo. These journalists will acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to produce high-quality, impactful reports on DPI/DPGs. Ultimately, the work of these journalists will contribute to increased public access to information, greater public awareness, and more robust engagement in DPI/DPGs policy development and implementation throughout the West African region.
Programme Details:
Selected journalists will participate in a three-month fellowship from November 2024 to January 2025. The fellowship will involve training workshops, mentorship, and story production. Upon completion, fellows will continue to engage in network activities and further reporting on DPI/DPGs for three months.
The fellowship includes both virtual and in-person, country-specific capacity-building sessions for the selected fellows. Quarterly virtual follow-up refreshers will also be held for both the first and second cohorts, facilitating knowledge-sharing and collaboration on DPI/DPGs issues.
By the end of the Fellowship, each fellow is expected to have produced at least five significant stories on DPI/DPGs. Fellows will be required to publish their stories in their respective news media organisations. Fellows will also receive a certificate of participation.
Application Process:
Interested candidates must complete the fellowship application form for their respective countries:
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT, MWFA DPI
Commonwealth Short Story prize 2025
About the prize
The Commonwealth Short Story Prize is open for submissions until 1 November 2024.
The prize is free to enter and open to any citizen of a Commonwealth country aged 18 and over. It is awarded for the best piece of unpublished short fiction (2,000–5,000 words).
Submissions should be made via the online entry form which is available via the link above. The eligibility and entry guidelines can be found here.
An international judging panel of writers will select a shortlist of around twenty stories, from which five regional winners are chosen. One of the regional winners is then selected as the overall winner, who receives £5,000. The regional winners will receive £2,500. All five regional winning stories will be published on Granta.
Scroll down to read answers to frequently asked questions about the prize, including who can enter, how stories are judged and what languages we accept.
For any inquiries regarding the prize, please email:
creatives@commonwealthfoundation.com
WIPO Intellectual Property (IP) Labs 2.0 Acceleration Programme 2024
Intellectual Property (IP) Labs 2.0 – Acceleration Program
What is IP Labs?
IP Labs is a WIPO IP-based capacity-building program for startups in Nigeria. The program models WIPO’s IP management clinics (IPMCs) to empower innovators, entrepreneurs, and startups to harness the power of intellectual property as a business development and financing strategy. It was designed and launched to address the identified need for capacity building within the tech, innovation, and entrepreneurial ecosystem, focusing on the relevance of intellectual property.
The pilot phase of the IP Labs project was conducted from August to December 2023. This phase effectively provided IP training and mentorship to fifty-six (56) startup founders within Nigeria's tech, entrepreneurship, and innovation ecosystem. The phase II of the project has been scaled up to provide training and mentorship to 300 early-stage startups in Nigeria.
Who can apply?
IP Labs Project welcomes all individuals or teams with technology driven innovative ideas that addresses real world challenges in their communities and globally, ranging from finance, job-creation, climate change, agriculture, health, education etc. To qualify, these solutions must have some form of intellectual property component to them.
The main selection criteria include the following considerations or requirements:
- Startup must be an early-stage startup with a solution to an identified local problem.
- Startup idea must be subject matter of an intellectual property possible of industrial application.
- Green technologies are greatly encouraged.
- Women-owned startups are strongly encouraged.
- Founders of the startup must be available for the virtual 7-month curriculum.
How can IPMC benefit my business?
Every innovative company has unique business challenges that require a tailored IP strategy – an action plan to identify, develop, protect and leverage a company's portfolio of IP assets. Successfully implemented, an IP strategy allows businesses to gain competitive advantage and drives profitability.
All IP Management Clinics share a common methodology, format and duration, though some offer different degrees of specialization in certain areas of IP. Participants benefit from various activities spread over a period, including:
- One-on-one mentorship with renowned IP and business expert(s) selected by WIPO on how to better use IP for growth.
- Training opportunities and access to practical tools and services
- Networking opportunities amongst peers.
The deadline for application is September 20, 2024.
FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT, WIPO IP Labs 2.0
Wege Prize 2025
WEGE PRIZE 2025 Design BrIEF
Wege Prize, organized by Kendall College of Art and Design’s Wege Center for Sustainable Design with support from the Wege Foundation, is an annual competition that ignites game-changing solutions for the future by inspiring college/university students around the world to collaborate across institutional, disciplinary, and cultural boundaries to redesign the way economies work. Participants contend for $65,000 (USD) in total cash prizes, all while helping to show the world what the future of problem solving looks like.
TO BE ELIGIBLE TO JOIN A TEAM, INDIVIDUALS MUST:
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Attend a college, university, or equivalent institution of higher education anywhere in the world
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Be a student enrolled in a full-time (or equivalent) undergraduate, graduate, or post-graduate program, for the duration of the competition*
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Teams can be composed of a mix of undergraduate, graduate, and post-graduate students if they so choose.
For more information visit, Design brief and Wege Prize
Forge Prize 2025 for Architect in the U.S
This competition, established by The American Institute of Steel Construction in 2018, recognizes visionary emerging architects, architecture faculty, and graduate students for design concepts that embrace innovations in steel as a primary structural component.
In short: We’re looking for your version of the future. What will people build with, live in, work in, or play in?
The Forge Prize is a unique opportunity to experiment with a conceptual design without limit to scope or complexity--the sky really is the limit here, and the industry is paying attention.
Three finalists will each win $5,000 and work with a steel fabricator before presenting their ideas to the judges--streamed live on YouTube on March 18, 2025, at noon Central. The winner will receive the $10,000 grand prize and an installation at the 2025 Architecture in Steel conference, April 2-4 in Louisville, Ky.!
The work of last year’s Grand Prize winner, Emily Baker of the University of Arkansas, was featured at the National AIA Convention, and her work will be part of an exhibit at the National Museum of Industrial History.
For more information visit, Forge prize
Climate Parent Fellowship 2025
Climate Parent Fellowship
Across the world, parents, grandparents, and caregivers are taking climate action to protect the kids they love, children everywhere, and our shared home.
Our Climate Parent Fellowship aims to support key organizers of parent-led, intergenerational, or family-focused climate engagement work across the globe.
Since 2021, we have supported 41 organizers from 25 countries through our year-long Fellowship program. We have supported campaigners, grassroots organizers, communicators, indigenous leaders, artists, and educators to grow and develop their climate work.
Our Fellowship is now open for applications for the 2025 cohort. Applications must be received by Friday 6 September 2024 by 11:59 pm ET. The one-year Fellowship will begin in January 2025.
For our 2025 cohort, we are looking for leaders within a parent-led, intergenerational, or family-focused climate project, group, organization, strategy, or idea. Our Fellows will be the core drivers and key decision-makers of the climate initiative they are working on, which will have the capacity to grow, be replicated or scaled.
We are particularly interested in candidates who are working on some of Our Kids’ Climate strategic campaign priorities, such as clean air, fossil fuel phase-out, and a fast and fair transition to renewable energy. However, as in other cohorts, we anticipate our 2025 Fellows to be approaching parent-led, intergenerational, or family-focused climate work in a diverse variety of ways. We are also interested in supporting some Fellows engaged around COP30.
Fellows will take part in monthly training sessions, receive mentorship, and a stipend of between $15,000 – $20,000 USD, which aims to make their climate organizing work more sustainable.
Successful Fellows will be those seeking not only funding, but also the global community, peer-to-peer mentoring, experience sharing, and leadership development that is at the heart of our Fellowship Program.
REQUIREMENTS
Please read carefully the requirements below. Your application will only be considered if you meet ALL requirements.
To be eligible for the Climate Parent Fellowship, you MUST:
- Be at least 18 years old;
- Be someone who is at the leadership level within a non-profit project or group, organization, strategy, or idea;
- Be fluent or proficient in English; including: submitting a complete application in English, respecting the application form instructions;
- Submit an application sharing your personal contribution to shaping the work of your initiative (the Fellowship is NOT a grant application, and does not accept applications from organizations);
- Provide clear and focused responses to all questions. Vague answers or excessive reliance on AI-generated content will result in disqualification from the selection process.
To be eligible for the Climate Parent Fellowship, your idea, project, group, or organization MUST:
- Be related to intergenerational and/or parent-led and/or family-focused climate work.
Intergenerational initiatives are climate projects/organizations/campaigns/ strategies that engage two or more generations (e.g. parents and children, elders and youth, etc).
Parent-led initiatives are climate projects/organizations/campaigns/strategies led by parents, caregivers, or grandparents – with the specific aim of engaging other parents, caregivers, or grandparents.
Family-focused initiatives are climate projects/organizations/campaigns/strategies that focus on engaging families as central to how they deliver their work. They could be led by any age group.