{"id":19462,"date":"2015-04-27T09:18:27","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediastorm.com\/blog\/?p=19462"},"modified":"2015-04-27T09:18:27","modified_gmt":"2015-04-27T13:18:27","slug":"applications-now-open-for-cowbird-unheard-voices-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/27\/applications-now-open-for-cowbird-unheard-voices-grant\/","title":{"rendered":"Applications Now Open for Cowbird Unheard Voices Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1oXZZyBT1MKMn0B5opnB8QTZXV_eI3a_QCS_AtvHT5oc\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19463\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/cowbird-e1429883871302.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a>Storytelling platform <a href=\"http:\/\/cowbird.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cowbird<\/a> is on a mission to balance the media landscape by amplifying\u00a0unheard, marginalized voices from around the world &#8212; in their own words, sounds and images.<\/p>\n<p>The very first\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1oXZZyBT1MKMn0B5opnB8QTZXV_eI3a_QCS_AtvHT5oc\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\">Cowbird Unheard Voices Grant<\/a> is now accepting applications for journalists and community organizers through midnight, <strong>May 10th, 2015<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Requirements<\/h2>\n<p>Grantees will work closely with a community to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Help people share their stories on Cowbird.<\/li>\n<li>Host training and multimedia workshops.<\/li>\n<li>Build relationships with community leaders.<\/li>\n<li>Create a collection of their stories on Cowbird.<\/li>\n<li>Write a narrative overview for the collection that tells its backstory, weaves together its themes, and gives readers vivid places to start exploring.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Strong preference will be given to applicants with deep and existing connections to the communities they hope to work with, and also to applicants with multimedia journalism or storytelling experience.<\/p>\n<p>The grants are intended to supplement ongoing work and are $2,500. Grantees also receive technical and logistical support from Cowbird.<\/p>\n<h2>Apply<\/h2>\n<p>Applications are being accepted from now through midnight, May 10th, 2015. Once the grant is awarded, recipients will be expected to facilitate the posting of between 20-30 pieces to Cowbird within 3 months. Grants will be announced on or before June 1st.<\/p>\n<p>To apply, please send your resume and one professional reference to <a href=\"mailto:hay@cowbird.com\">hay@cowbird.com<\/a> and complete <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/1oXZZyBT1MKMn0B5opnB8QTZXV_eI3a_QCS_AtvHT5oc\/viewform?c=0&amp;w=1\" target=\"_blank\">application questions<\/a>:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Storytelling platform Cowbird is on a mission to balance the media landscape by amplifying\u00a0unheard, marginalized voices from around the world &#8212; in their own words, sounds and images. The very first\u00a0Cowbird Unheard Voices Grant is now accepting applications for journalists and community organizers through midnight, May 10th, 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":19463,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[225],"class_list":["post-19462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","tag-photography-grant","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19462"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19462\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mediastorm.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}