# Small Grants for Media Development

Source: https://welltoldgrants.com/grants/dos-kaz-ns-aeeca-21-006-small-grants-for-media-development/  
Official notice: https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/332962

> U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan offered grants of up to $40,000 (at least $10,000) to the applicants described in the notice. It expected to make about 8 awards worth $120,000 in total. Applications closed on May 20, 2021.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Opportunity number | DOS-KAZ-NS-AEECA-21-006 |
| Agency | U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan |
| Status | Forecast |
| Deadline | May 20, 2021 |
| Award ceiling | $40,000 |
| Award floor | $10,000 |
| Expected awards | 8 |
| Total funding | $120,000 |
| Cost sharing | not required |
| Assistance Listings | 19.900 |

## Who can apply

- Others (see text field entitled "Additional Information on Eligibility" for clarification)

The following organizations are eligible to apply:• Not-for-profit organizations registered in Kazakhstan • For-profit organizations registered in Kazakhstan • Civil society/non-governmental organizations registered in Kazakhstan • Think tanks registered in Kazakhstan • Individuals

## What the grant funds

The U.S. Mission in Kazakhstan is seeking applications to strengthen Kazakhstan’s media market by addressing one of the following themes: · Theme 1: Innovative approaches for gathering or sharing news, particularly with younger audiences. · Theme 2: Promote professional journalism standards, particularly fact checking, verification, investigative journalism, and fact-based reporting. · Theme 3: Support financial sustainability of media outlets in Kazakhstan, including alternative sources of revenue, by teaching media outlets about different business models and techniques for growing their audiences. · Theme 4: Support the development of peer-to-peer exchanges or grassroots networks of professionals for higher quality reporting, ethical and objective journalism, etc. · Theme 5: Analyze trends in media consumption, disinformation/misinformation in Kazakhstan, and other biases. Program Goal: Strengthen media in Kazakhstan by increasing journalistic professionalism and diminishing negative impact of fake-news in Kazakhstan. Projects’ Audience(s) should be journalists, bloggers, media-outlets, media professionals and editors. A project should benefit directly or indirectly Kazakhstani media consumers, increasing the quality of the media content. The programs and projects targeting news reporters, journalists and bloggers will be given preference. The projects are encouraged to target Kazakh-speaking audiences in the regions of Kazakhstan. Projects can focus on one or more of the following objectives: 1) Broaden access to high-quality journalism for young audiences through innovative approaches in gathering or sharing news; 2) Promote professional journalism standards across regional and national media outlets by increasing their professional fact-checking, verification, and investigative journalism skills; 3) Build capacity of Kazakh media outlets, particularly Kazakh-language outlets, to improve their financial sustainability, secure alternative sources of revenue, and adopt different media-business models and techniques for enlarging their audiences. 4) Support the development of peer-to-peer exchanges or grassroots networks of professionals for higher quality reporting, ethical and objective journalism, etc. 5) Prevent distribution of fake-news or mitigate its negative impact through effective campaign, which can include analyze of media trends, development of communities or stimulation of distribution of objective reporting.

## Questions people ask

### Is DOS-KAZ-NS-AEECA-21-006 still open?

No. It closed on May 20, 2021. A newer notice is forecast: TIRDEMCOMMR2FY22, forecast, no dates yet.

### Who can apply for Small Grants for Media Development?

U.S. Mission to Kazakhstan accepted applications from the applicants described in the notice. The notice adds further conditions, so read its eligibility section.

### What is the deadline for Small Grants for Media Development?

Closed May 20, 2021. Applications are no longer accepted; the program's newer notices are on this page when there are any.

### How much funding is available?

Awards of up to $40,000 each. About $120,000 in total across about 8 awards.

### Who has won AEECA/ESF PD Programs grants before?

The largest recipients over five fiscal years were American Councils for International Education: Actr/Accels, Inc., Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees, International Research and Exchanges Board Inc. The program made 2,295 awards worth $192 million in that time.