I am excited to announce that the application window is now open for the next round of our Journalism Travel Grants!
My father, the late journalist Neal Peirce, was always on the road searching for promising policies, programs and ideas to write about in his syndicated Washington Post newspaper column. He practiced solutions journalism decades before we had a name for it.
With our up-to $1,500 travel grants, we enable journalists to produce similar kinds of stories, on a topic my father cared about deeply: making cities work better for all their people. These stories lift up but also investigate potential solutions to pressing problems, with the ultimate aim of helping communities learn from each other. Journalists can apply for a grant here — the deadline is October 7, 2024.
Stories we supported last year show the range of ways journalists are delivering on this mission.
- Anika Nayak went to Boston to report on how mobile health clinics are helping hard-to-reach populations access the care they need. Her story ran in the health news site STAT.
- Ashli Blow went to Memphis for Tennessee Lookout to report on how a program that enables homeowners to weatherize their homes helps them cut their utility bills and reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
- Patrick Spauster went to Missoula, Montana, for Bloomberg CityLab to write about the city’s efforts to balance support for homeless residents with restrictions on camping.
You can check out these and other stories our travel grants have supported on our website here.
This is our fourth year of offering travel grants. Journalists tell us again and again that our support is vital at a time when struggling newsrooms have dwindling travel budgets. Often, one of our grants is the reason a story gets told. If you know a journalist who might be interested in this opportunity, please forward this email and share the news!
Thank you for being part of this journey and making more stories happen!
Best regards,
Andrea Peirce
President, The Neal Peirce Foundation