Take $500 for granted
Don’t miss the Learn-and-Win Grant-Writing Workshop
When Nicole DeCriscio launched Indiana’s first nonprofit newspaper in 2022, she was working in a church. With only pluck and pennies, she kept the Owen County News going and growing.
Then in 2024, she won a six-figure grant.
Grant writing is an art unto itself. Doing it for your own media projects comes with specific obstacles. Nicole will not only show you how to navigate around them, she’s putting SPJ’s money where her mouth is.
At the Learn-and-Win Grant-Writing Workshop, you can write a very short grant and leave ProCon 25 with $500, courtesy of the Society of Professional Journalists.
How it works…
- Nicole leads a pre-convention workshop on Wednesday, Feb. 26, from 1-4 pm. Cost: $25.
- If you can’t make that (or afford that), Nicole will give the abbreviated version Thursday morning as a regular convention session.
- Thursday afternoon, Nicole will keep “office hours” in the Exhibit Hall, where she’ll help you write your grant proposal.
- And what is your grant about? Something you know well: Your own student media outlet. How can your newspaper, magazine, litmag, TV or radio station use $500?
- Submit your stripped-down application – we don’t want you spending your entire time in Manhattan writing a grant – by midnight Thursday, Feb. 27.
- A panel of professional journalists will choose a $500 winner, who will be announced before the closing keynote on Saturday, March 1.
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