Advancing Public Service Media Grant

These Ford Foundation grants are a component of the foundation's efforts to promote social justice, build healthy communities, and contribute to an engaged and active citizenry. Grant support is available to for-profit and nonprofit federally identified businesses working in the public interest. Grants are intended to help:

• "Create a pipeline of high-quality content, representing diverse and independent perspectives
• Strengthen the technology and distribution systems that allow people to access and contribute to this material
• Boost public discussion and research about the ways in which media can better engage and inform all citizens"

From the website: "Where We Work:

Grants support public interest media services and products in Eastern Africa, West Africa, Indonesia, and India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. They provide support in three areas:

1.  Content. Includes nonfiction storytelling, journalism and other digital media
2. Public Interest Infrastructure. Integrates technology and applications that support connectivity, networking and openness
3. Public Engagement. Promotes civic participation, use of media and technology to promote life-long learning, collaborative problem solving and informed discourse"

Grants do not support fictional feature films, for-profit ventures, or investments in profit-driven media enterprises. Student films and local journalism, radio or television projects are rarely considered. University media departments or re-granting agents should not apply.