Charles T. Manatt Democracy Award
Elections
Named after former U.S. Ambassador and IFES Board of Directors Chairman Charles T. Manatt, the award is given yearly to three individuals — one Republican, one Democrat and one member of the international community. Recipients are selected by IFES’ Board of Directors based on criteria such as leadership, impact on the field of democracy, alignment with IFES’ mission, diversity and inclusion, influence on social change, and focus on the next generation of leaders.
International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES)
Visiting Policy Research Fellow
The Freedom House Fellowship Program based in Washington, DC and New York is offered in periods of 4, 6, and 9 months. This competitive unpaid fellowship program is offered to researchers, academics, and professionals with expertise in human rights and democracy. Application deadline: 1 December 2013
Freedom House
Global
Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Grants
The foundation welcomes proposals from any of the natural and social sciences and the humanities that promise to increase understanding of the causes, manifestations, and control of violence and aggression. Most awards fall within the range of $15,000 to $40,000 per year for periods of one or two years. Application deadline: 1 August
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation
Global
Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking
The Scrivner Award for Creative Grantmaking was established in 1985 to recognize a grantmaker who has demonstrated outstanding creativity. It honors grantmakers who, with a combination of vision, principle and personal commitment, are making a critical difference in a creative way. Nomination deadline: 7 February 2013
Council on Foundations
Global
Small Grants Programme for Thesis Writing
The CODESRIA Small Grants Programme is open to graduate students and professionals currently registered in African universities, and preparing their thesis and dissertation in all social science fields and other disciplines involving social or economic analysis. Application deadline: 14 June 2013
Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)
Africa
Journalists in Distress Fund
Freedom of the Press
CJFE's Journalists in Distress Fund provides humanitarian assistance to journalists whose lives and well-being are threatened. The recipient must be a journalist, vetted or verifiable by either an IFEX member or an organisation that provides journalist assistance.
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE)
Africa; Asia; Central and Eastern Europe; Eurasia; Latin America and the Caribbean; Middle East and North Africa
Freedom to Publish Prize
Freedom of the Press
Nominations are open for the International Publishers Association 2014 Freedom to Publish Prize which honors a person, organisation or institution that has shown courage in upholding freedom of expression and defending the freedom to publish. Deadline: 28 June 2013.
International Publishers Association
Global
Rory Peck Awards
The only awards dedicated to the work of freelance cameramen and camerawomen in news and current affairs. Deadline: 10 June 2013
The Rory Peck Trust; Sony
Global
Humanity in Action Fellowship
Minorities
Humanity in Action Fellowship brings together international groups of university students and recent graduates to explore national histories of discrimination and resistance, as well as examples of issues affecting different minority groups today. Only students and recent graduates from universities in the following countries are eligible:Bosnia and Herzegovina, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine and the United States.
Humanity in Action
Central and Eastern Europe
International Law Fellowship Programme
The International Law Fellowship Programme is designed to enable qualified persons, in particular, mid-level government legal officers and young teachers of international law from developing countries, and countries with emerging economies, to deepen their knowledge of international law. The Fellowship Programme consists of a six-week summer course at the Peace Palace in The Hague, the Netherlands. Deadline: 31 January 2013
United Nations Office of Legal Affairs
Global