The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism How to Apply » Who Can Apply:
The grant competition is open to all journalist members of the Web community at ReportingonHealth.org, including print, broadcast and new media, and to all past fellows of the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships program. All journalists are eligible to join ReportingonHealth.org. Seminar Schedule:
July 11 - July 16, 2010
The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism provides grants of up to $10,000 for reporting on critical health issues facing underserved communities. (Please click here to learn more about our 2009 award winners: Victoria Colliver, Robert Joiner, Sara Shakir, Janet Wilson, and Rong Xiaoqing) Applications for the 2010 grants must be postmarked by May 5, 2010. Incomplete applications will not be considered. To ensure receipt of your application, we recommend that you send it via a trackable service (FedEx, UPS, or USPS Express Mail or Priority Mail with tracking). Grantees are expected to attend all sessions of the National Health Journalism Fellowships, which will be held July 11-16, 2010. AWARD RANGE: $2,500-$10,000 The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism honors a visionary communications leader, the late vice president of communications and public affairs at The California Endowment, California's largest health foundation. Dennis A. Hunt had an enduring commitment to high-quality journalism on critical health issues. While serving at The California Endowment, Dennis co-founded the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, which has educated hundreds of journalists on pressing community health and health policy issues confronting underserved communities in the United States. Program Description:
The Dennis A. Hunt Fund for Health Journalism honors Dennis' legacy by providing financial support for ambitious investigative and explanatory journalism projects on community health and health policy issues. The grant competition is open to all journalist members of ReportingonHealth.org, the online community and professional resource Web site of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. Print, broadcast and new media journalists from anywhere in the United States are eligible to apply, as are all past fellows of the USC Annenberg/California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships. Joint projects between mainstream and ethnic media are given special priority. The grant is designed to cover reporting and publishing-related costs such as travel, Web development, database acquisition, translation services, and a journalist’s otherwise uncompensated time. Both freelancers and news outlet employees are eligible to apply. The Dennis A. Hunt Fund seeks proposals for stories or multimedia projects that illuminate or expose critical community health or community health policy issues. Proposals can focus on a specific health topic or delve into a confluence of circumstances and conditions that impact health, including environment; social class; crime and violence; urban development; access to health resources or the lack thereof; school absenteeism; transportation or city planning, and and disparities in health. Topics that would NOT be eligible would include clinical trials, medical research, or the latest treatments for a disease or any project involving a population outside of the United States. The fund is financed by memorial contributions from Hunt's friends and colleagues. Grantees will be selected by a committee of journalists and communications and public policy experts. The first round of grants was awarded in 2009, and subsequent rounds will be awarded in 2010 and 2011. Eighty percent of the amount of each grant will be paid at the outset of the project, with the remaining 20 percent to be paid upon publication or broadcast. Grantees also are automatically awarded acceptance in the all-expenses-paid National Fellowships of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships (July 11-16, 2010 in Los Angeles) and are expected to attend. Stories must be published or broadcast within one year of the Fellowship seminars. Successful applicants will be notified by June 14. Program Highlights:
Click here for an application and more details about what's required. The application form for the Hunt grants is the same as for The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, although more detail is required in the personal statement, and a detailed budget must be submitted. For more information, contact Martha Shirk at cahealth@usc.edu. |
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