Research Funding Opportunities: April 3, 2026
Introducing a new tool for research development in the college: Funding Opportunities Database
All active funding opportunities from prior CJC funding digests have been posted to this site and we are continuing to refine and improve it. Please visit it and provide Max Williams your feedback. We want to encourage a culture of extramural funding and sponsored research development.
Journalism
First Opportunity
- Agency: Omidyar Network
- Funding Opportunity Title: Tech Journalism Fund
- Key words: AI, youth, policy, labor
- Link to RFP: omidyar.com/where-we-focus/tech-journalism-fund/
- Deadline: applications will generally be reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis, with a decision communicated within 30 days of submission.
- Funding available: Omidyar Network’s Tech Journalism Fund will provide project funding from $5,000 to $25,000
- Period of performance: not specified
- Program background: Omidyar Network’s Tech Journalism Fund will provide project funding from $5,000 to $25,000 to support reporting costs for journalists working on a singular, time and resource intensive reporting project.
- Program Objective: Applicants are welcome to submit proposals on any topic related to how technology and society intersect, but priority consideration will be given to pitches in four core areas:
- Legislation and policy proposals on regulating AI and the tech sector
- Investigative pieces on the companies, organizations, people, and ideas that are shaping the AI and tech industries
- The impact of AI on children, youth, and families
- How workers, unions, companies, and employers are contending with AI and other technological advances in the workplace
- NOTE: the Fund is only open to US-based journalists.
Media
First Opportunity
- Sponsor: Nova Institute for Health
- Funding Opportunity Title: 2026-2027 Nova Institute Media Fellowship
- Key words: newsrooms, print, digital, and broadcast journalists, health, well-being
- Link to RFP: healthjournalism.org/opportunities/2026-2027-nova-institute-media-fellowship/
- Deadline: Proposals are due by 11:59 PM Eastern on Monday, April 20, 2026
- Funding available: Media Fellows receive an award of $60,000 over a 12-month period beginning September 1, with additional generous travel/conference stipends available.
- Period of performance: 12 months beginning 9/1/26
- Program background: The Nova Institute’s Media Fellowship program supports outstanding print, digital, and broadcast journalists and nonprofit newsrooms reporting on the complex, intertwined factors that affect health and well-being. We view health as our most basic and essential asset, as well as a unifying lens through which we can transcend polarization. We focus on solutions-based approaches to today’s challenges and seek out stories that will unite us in a more holistic understanding of health and flourishing.
- Program Objective: In 2026-27, Nova will support exemplary solutions-focused reporting projects exploring health, well-being, and our ability to flourish. Successful proposals will do more than simply identify current challenges and the limitations of existing structures; they should also seek to illuminate emerging solutions with the potential to revolutionize how we understand health. We strongly encourage proposals in the following areas:
- The many upstream factors influencing children’s health and well-being;
- The intersection of mental health, well-being, and justice in all its forms, including legal and/or carceral systems;
- The interconnected ways in which individual, community, and planetary health are shaped by creativity, the arts, consciousness, Indigenous knowledge, and/or spirituality;
- Impacts of artificial intelligence on healthcare, medicine, and/or societal well-being;
- Political, social, and/or environmental dynamics contributing to health inequities;
- Regenerative agriculture, conscious food systems, and their relationship with both ecological and human health
Category: Research Funding Opportunities
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