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Soros Justice Media Fellowships - Track II
Organization
Open Society Foundations
224 W 57th St.
New York, NY 10019
Phone Number (212)548-0600
Emails contact@opensocietyfoundations.org
media@opensocietyfoundations.org
Level of Study Professional Development
Award Type Fellowship
Purpose To support writers, print and broadcast journalists, bloggers, filmmakers, and other individuals with distinctive voices proposing to complete media projects that engage and inform, spur debate and conversation, and catalyze change on important U.S. criminal justice issues.
Focus Communications; Criminal justice.
Qualifications Applicants must have at least ten (10) years of relevant experience. Track II is for seasoned, established, and accomplished leaders and voices in the field ideally people who have distinguished themselves on a local, state, or national level; and who have the kind of stature, record of accomplishment, experience, and capacity necessary to have a meaningful impact on the issue or issues their projects seek to take on; enrollment for degree or nondegree study at academic institutions, including dissertation research projects that do not have a meaningful connection to a U.S. criminal legal system issue (applicants themselves can be based outside the United States and projects can have a global focus or perspective, as long as the work has a meaningful connection to a U.S. issue) lobbying activities.
Criteria Selection will be based on the Committee criteria.
Funds $80,000
Duration Annual.
Number of Awards Varies.
To Apply Applicants must be submit online application form; a resume of no more than three (3) pages. Although applicants are a resume and a bio within the three pages, applicants should not submit only a bio; COVER PAGE + PROPOSAL NARRATIVE of no more than 2000 words which asks for the following information (applicants should use the template that can be downloaded from the Soros Justice; single-spaced Cover Page that includes the following information: name, email address, Phone number Mailing address, Project Title (or a one-sentence description of the project); Project Summary (no more than 100 words) Using the Proposal Narrative Template, provide single-spaced responses.
Deadline January 31.
Contact Email: sorosjusticefellowships@opensocietyfoundations.org.
For more information http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org
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