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Diversity
Celebrating America250: Arts Projects Honoring the National Garden of American Heroes
06/13/25
NEA will award $25,000 grants (no match required) to create art about one of the historical figures listed in the recent executive order for the Garden of American Heroes (includes figures such as Harriet Tubman, Benjamin Franklin, Sacagawea, Frank Lloyd Wright and many others). Deadline: July 14, 2025 -
Diversity
Cultural and Community Resilience (CCR)
10/24/22
This NEH grant supports preserving cultural knowledge in the face of climate change and/or the COVID-19 pandemic. Grants for oral history and other digital documentation of marginalized communities affected may be up to $150,000. This grant program ended in April 2025. -
Diversity
VMM Public Media Fund
01/13/22
With funding from CPB, Vision Maker Media provides grants of up to $150,000 for research and development, production and post-production work on content for public television that represents the cultures, experiences, and perspectives of Native Americans and Alaska Natives. This competition is now closed. The deadline was February 11, 2022. -
Diversity
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
12/10/21
Mellon is a long standing funder of public broadcasting. Program areas include Arts and Culture, Journalism, and Higher Learning. They have invested significantly in arts organizations during the pandemic. -
Diversity
Publishing Historical Records in Collaborative Digital Editions
11/29/21
Up to $160,000 is available from the National Archives to publish online editions of historical records. The most recent deadline was May 7, 2025. -
Diversity
Next Gen Public Media Accelerator
11/03/21
This funding opportunity closed on December 20, 2021 -
Diversity
Combatting Disinformation in Communities of Color
08/09/21
This funding opportunity closed on September 15, 2021. -
Diversity
Racial Equity in STEM Education
04/12/21
Awards ranging $250,000 - $5,000,000 will address research about systemic racism in STEM through this new cross-disciplinary initiative. The program solicitation for October 2025 has been archived and this program is closed. -
Diversity
The Black Church Community Engagement Grants
11/05/20
WETA will make mini-grants of up to $7,500 to stations that host virtual community engagement events focused on The Black Church. This funding opportunity ended on December 9, 2020. -
Diversity
East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story Community Engagement Grants
11/22/19
WETA will make community engagement grants of up to $10,000 to support activities around the upcoming documentary series East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story. Deadline: December 16, 2019. -
Diversity
Finding Your Roots Season Seven Community Engagement Grants
10/11/19
WETA will make mini-grants of up to $5,000 to stations that host community engagement events focused on the new season of Finding Your Roots. This funding opportunity ended on November 20, 2020. -
Diversity
Jacquie Jones Memorial Scholarship Fund
08/15/18
This fund, established by CPB and administered by Black Public Media, was created to support diverse documentary producers. Deadline was September 30, 2018. -
Diversity
Ford Foundation
07/24/17
The Ford Foundation's focus post-2020 is on challenging inequality. Grants for media focus on informing the public about complex social issues. Documentary funding is available through the JustFilms program. -
Diversity
Women and Minorities in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Fields Program
04/29/17
WAMS supports programs promoting the inclusion of women and underrepresented minorities in rural communities striving for a postsecondary degree in STEM education. -
Diversity
Fledgling Fund
02/13/17
Grants support outreach, engagement and some production for social justice-focused documentary film. As of 2022, the fund is no longer accepting media proposals.
