Awards

This American Chemical Society award recognizes, encourages and stimulates outstanding reporting directly to the public, which materially increases the public's knowledge and understanding of chemistry, chemical engineering and related fields. Winner receives $5,000 and up to $2,500 for travel expenses to the meeting at which the award will be presented will be reimbursed. Deadline: Nov 1 annually.

The Center for Health Journalism at the USC Annenberg School of Journalism is offering Impact Fund grants of $2,000-$10,000 for groundbreaking reporting on the health of underserved communities in California, including an exploration of environmental conditions where people live and work. Deadline: Sep 20, 2019.

This annual fund is offering two $5,000 grants in 2019 — one each for a humanitarian and an environmental photography project. Open to professional or emerging photographers from any country, worldwide. Apply by July 31.

OneClass, an education technology company in Toronto, Ontario, is giving away scholarships ranging from US$450 - $2000 to students enrolled or accepted for enrollment full-time in the 2019/2020 academic year at an accredited US, Canadian or Australian post-secondary institution. Deadline: Oct 31, 2019.

The National Geographic Society's three current funding opportunities are for projects in conservation, education, research, storytelling or technology: Animal Behavior and Cognition Funding Opportunity; Level I and Level II Funding. Deadline is Apr 12, 2023.

The Water Desk at the University of Colorado Boulder's Center for Environmental Journalism is offering grants (up to $10,000) to media outlets and individual journalists for water-related journalism involving the seven states of the Colorado River Basin as well as the borderlands of Northwest Mexico. Sep 21, 2022 deadline.

The Global Youth & News Media Prize was established in 2018 to fill a gap in honoring news media that serve, support, attract and listen to young audiences. The Planet Award (deadline Jul 1, 2021) is one of three categories, along with The Journalism Award and The News/Media Literacy Award (deadlines Apr 15, 2021).

The Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management showcases the very best in environmental photography highlighting impacts on the Earth by humans. EPOTY 2022 receives a £5,000 cash prize; Young EPOTY (21 and under) receives brand new camera equipment; and more. Deadline is Aug 31, 2022.

The Social Documentary Network seeks submissions for this award from a global community of photographers —  for documentary projects that have the highest visual and storytelling components while exploring important global issues that affect us all. Deadline: Apr 30, 2021.

Canadian Journalists for Free Expression invites nominations by May 30 annually for multiple awards recognizing journalists for courage and determination overcoming obstacles, investigative journalism, reinforcing and promoting the principle of freedom of the press in Canada or elsewhere, and more. Cash prizes.