Youth Media Literacy Grant

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HumanitiesDC is proud to offer a new grant partnership opportunity. The Youth Media Literacy Grant is for organizations to develop media literacy curricula that can be used for either an in-school or out-of-school time program for students ages 12 to 18. Applicants are encouraged to develop programs that use interactive learning models that go beyond the classroom. Potential projects could include political cartooning workshops, field trips to working newsrooms, photojournalism investigations, or the creation of a student produced media literacy guide for their peers. Media literacy builds an understanding of the role of media in society as well as essential skills of inquiry and self-expression necessary for citizens of a democracy.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is providing funding through a program called “Democracy and the Informed Citizen.” As part of this initiative, HumanitiesDC is able to offer three Youth Media Literacy Grants to organizations currently conducting humanities programming for Washington, DC students ages 12 to 18. Each program must bring in at least one Pulitzer Prize nominated journalist to engage with its participants. Applicants will be required to include a detailed description of how this engagement will take place and what the expected outcomes will be.

Applications are accepted in May and awardees are announced in June. Applicants may request up to $10,000—All applicant budgets must show $10,000 in expenses against the grant—and must complete their project by March of the following year. In addition to the journalist noted above, applications must identify a scholar and how s/he will advise the project through the grant cycle. Each funded project will result in a lasting digital final product that will be added to HumanitiesDC Digital Museum.

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Grants Manager: Andrea Carroll McNeil

This award is granted with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation via the Federation of State Humanities Councils as part of their joint Democracy and the Informed Citizen initiative.