Deadline: 9 December 2023
Registration is now open for the CatchLight Global Fellowship 2024 . At CatchLight, their mission is to harness the power of images to inform, transform and connect communities. The CatchLight Global Fellowship rewards visual storytellers who are prepared to spark social change through their photography, videography or leadership, harnessing the power of visuals to create impactful audience engagement and innovative distribution models.
At the centre of the Global Fellowship's objectives and outcomes is the sharing of learnings and processes with the CatchLight community and wider field. Fellows are responsible for sharing results and insights through three main reporting mechanisms during the fellowship year:
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- Public presentation of results
- Interview(s) with recipient and/or key stakeholders
- Visual documentation and data collection
Benefits
- Prize of US$ 30,000
- Potential access to additional future funding through the CatchLight Impact Fund
- Travel and accommodation paid for CatchLight Visual Storytelling Summit 2024, 26-28 April in San Francisco
- Personal development opportunities, including executive coaching
- Impact strategy and network support from the CatchLight team and our extended network
- A community of like-minded scholars and industry professionals, with opportunities for mentoring, education and talks
Eligibility
You might be the ideal candidate for a CatchLight Global scholarship if you are:
- Long storyteller with a specific impact project;
- Leader with a plan to advance/or grow in the field;
- Educator with innovative approaches to support future storytellers.
Evaluation Criteria
Proposals will be evaluated on how they employ and strengthen new methods and potential solutions, with a view to one or more of the following target results:
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- Innovative distribution: testing a new distribution method for an existing project to effectively engage a specific audience through visual resources.
- Community activations: testing how visual storytelling can be harnessed to engage specific audiences and/or meet specific community information needs
- Field sustainability: building systems and models that drive the field of visual storytelling or the media ecosystem.
Application
To enrol, you must provide the following:
- A fellowship statement about how visual resources in general and your work specifically stimulate social change, who your work aims to inform and what human connections your work creates (100 words)
- A thesis statement summarising what you would like to do and why (100 words)
- A description of the proposed work (250 words)
- A description of your distribution, engagement and/or impact plan that identifies your target audience for this work (250 words)
- A plan for collecting impact feedback (100 words)
- A timetable for work that may extend beyond the concession period.
- A budget estimate for the proposed work. This budget may exceed the amount of the award, but note where CatchLight funds would be used
- Three topic ideas for sharing learning with the CatchLight community
- 10 to 20 images that, if awarded, CatchLight will have the right to use in promotional materials
- Three professional references. Contact information should include e-mail and telephone number
- A brief biography
- A copy of your CV
