Deadline: 26 March 2025
The Impact Fund for Reporting on Health Equity and Health Systems supports ambitious investigative or explanatory projects on systemic racism in public health, health care policy and the practice of medicine, including inequity in treatment, access to care, patient experience and health outcomes for Black people, Indigenous people and other people of color.
This fund supports journalism that calls attention to chronic inequities in public health and health care systems and offers up paths for change. Reporters in this program conceive and report ambitious projects on how racial bias in health systems — whether structural or unconscious — creates health care inequities.
Benefits
- Grantees receive:
- Five months of professional mentorship from a veteran journalist
- Monthly online development and brainstorming sessions with other reporters in their class
- Four webinars devoted to health equity in health systems
Funding Information
- A $2,000-$10,000 grant to help with reporting costs.
Eligibility Criteria
- U.S. based professional journalists. Fellows in their program include Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalists, veteran health and social welfare reporters, as well as talented journalists earlier in their careers.
- Reporters who hold full-time staff positions in newsrooms that are both large and small.
- Freelancers who earn the majority of their income from journalism and have a confirmed assignment for their proposed projects.
- They give preference to:
- Applicants who have a minimum of three years of professional journalism experience.
- Reporters pursuing collaborative projects between mainstream and ethnic news outlets.
Application Requirements
- Applications will include:
- Personal Statement and Project Proposal: Tell them about yourself and why you want to participate in the program. Provide a description of the project you’re pursuing. Consider these questions: What is your long-term goal for this project? How would you like to see the community or policy benefit from this work? What makes this reporting new or important?
- Deliverables Statement: Number of stories you’ll be reporting, and tentative story themes or focus, including any multimedia elements you plan to incorporate (photos, video, audio, graphics, etc.)
- Proposed Budget: Please provide a grant amount requested and a rough breakdown of how you plan to use the funds
- Three samples of your most recent work
- Editor reference letter and completed Editor Checklist form
- Resume
For more information, visit Center for Health Journalism.
