Project Grant SMD70020GR0052

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $208,500 Project Grant to Intreprinderea CU Capital Strain Reforma Art, Societate CU Raspundere Limitata of Moldova to support independent media production strengthening from June 1, 2022 to June 1, 2023. The grant funding will support the sub-awardee's delivery of products and services aligned with the stated purpose of the federal grant program, AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $200,000 Project Grant to support independent news production and counter propaganda efforts in Moldova. The grant funding will support the project "PRO TV Capacity Development" under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia/European Security Fund Public Diplomacy Programs) between May 25, 2022 and June 30, 2023. The AEECA/ESF PD Programs, identified by CFDA #19.900, provide...

Under the $147,795.20 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Film Independent, Inc. will provide skills training to 24-30 Emirati filmmakers through online and in-person workshops on short film and episodic storytelling by March 2023. The award is part of the Investing in People in The Middle East and North Africa program, with the objective of promoting cultural understanding through media efforts. Film Independent will teach filmmakers to craft...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $180,000 Project Grant to support developing local production capacity to deliver independent news and fight propaganda in Moldova. The grant funding supports the project from July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2022 under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia/Economic Support Fund Public Diplomacy Programs, CFDA 19.900). The AEECA/ESF PD Programs aim to provide civil society and democracy...

This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...

The Chunguza Media Project, funded through a $249,876 Project Grant award from the Department of State Bureau of African Affairs, aims to deliver investigative journalism products and services to increase accountability in Tanzania. The award is part of the State/African Regional - Other Economic Support Funds (ESF) Projects/Programs federal grant program (CFDA #19.989), which provides funding for projects and programs supporting Africa Bureau economic priorities that do not fall under dedicated...

The Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor awarded Internews Network $740,625 under the International Programs to Support Democracy, Human Rights and Labor federal grant program (CFDA 19.345) to enable journalists, media outlets, and civil society to build capacity across ethnic divides in communities along the Tajikistan-Kyrgyz Republic border from September 16, 2022 through March 31, 2024. This project grant funding will support Internews Network's efforts to...

This federal Project Grant award of $400,000.00 from the Office of Naval Research (ONR) under the Basic and Applied Scientific Research program (CFDA 12.300) is supporting research to investigate the language of parasocial influence and the emergence of extremism. The lead grantee is The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania, partnering with Cornell University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on this 5-year research project. The key activities under this award include...

The Albanian Center for Quality Journalism received a $120,000 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to promote independent ethical investigative journalism in Albania. The grant was awarded on October 1, 2021 with a completion date of December 31, 2022 under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (Assistance for Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia/European Stability Initiative Public Diplomacy Programs) CFDA #19.900. This federal program provides civil...

This $313,805 project grant from the National Science Foundation's Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program will fund the University of Wisconsin-Madison to compare news coverage of public events across different news sources from 1994 to 2010. The university will develop catalogs of public events from that period and corresponding news stories to demonstrate how perceptions based on mainstream national media differed from those in more local specialty newspapers. Relational databases...