Funding Opportunities

Submitted by Nate Dappen on Wed, 2010-12-29 14:14
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This page is for funding opportunities of all kinds: grants, fellowships, scholarships, and other funding. Please contribute any funding resources related to science communication, photography, film, sustainability, and related topics.
 
The Explorers Club: Scott Pearlman Field Award for Science and Exploration
The Scott Pearlman Field Awards provide grants for professional artists, writers, photographers, filmmakers, and journalists in support of scientific expeditions sponsored by The Explorers Club. Grants in amounts up to $1500 are made to professionals who are recommended by the leader of an expedition sponsored by The Explorers Club. Samples of the candidates work must be submitted with this application, along with two references from individuals familiar with the candidate’s skills, personality, and ability to provide reproduction-quality documentation of the specified expedition.
 
The Photocrati Fund
From the website: "The Photocrati Fund offers $5000 grants to emerging photographers to undertake important humanitarian and environmental photography projects. Our goal is to identify outstanding, up-and-coming photographers and give them the resources necessary to pursue projects that will have a tangible and positive effect on the world... The 2011 Photocrati Fund competition will begin in November 2010 and will run through March 1, 2011. The 2011 Photocrati Fund award(s) will be announced at the Look3 Festival of the Photograph in Charlottesville, Virginia in June 2011. Awardees become Photocrati Fellows for the calendar year from the announcement of their award until the announcement of the following year’s award."
 

Google Maps & Earth Grants for Non-profits
Google Earth Outreach give non-profits and public benefit organizations the knowledge and resources they need to visualize their cause and tell their story in Google Earth and Maps to the hundred of millions of people who use them. they also have a grant program which mostly provides grants to non-profits for google software.