The Fund for Investigative Journalism is accepting proposals for regular grants (up to $10,000 for full investigative stories) and seed grants for early reporting (up to $2,500). Proposals for regular grants are due on Sept. 8 at 11:59 p.m. Eastern, and applications for seed grants are due on Sept. 15 at 11:59 p.m. Details are below. Details on two types ...
When companies want to build new facilities, they’re required to assess the impact of pollution on the community’s air quality – but more than 90% of the time, corporations and regulators in Michigan did not use proper methods to determine whether new facilities would violate federal pollution limits, according to reporting by Tom Perkins for The Guardian. With support from ...
Sarah Cavanaugh was a soft-spoken social worker living with her wife in Rhode Island. But in her double life – one made possible by committing extensive fraud at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs – she played the role of a wounded Marine dying of cancer. Cavanaugh defrauded several charities and many individuals of more than $280,000. With support from ...
In the first story in an ongoing series by Hell Gate and New York Focus on the systemic sexual assault of incarcerated people by employees in New York prisons, Jessy Edwards reported on the case of Sierra Johnson, a Native American woman who filed a lawsuit claiming she was sexually assaulted by three corrections officers and a doctor in New ...
In 1996, 36-year-old Susan Walsh reportedly left her house in Nutley, New Jersey, and was never seen again. The freelance writer, mother and sex worker is presumed dead, but her body has never been found. Her disappearances made headlines worldwide. In 2020, the mysterious case – and the misogyny in the original reporting about it and sexist remarks from the ...
With a seed grant from the Fund, Elyse Hauser obtained government records about deep-sea mining for minerals that can be used to make batteries, ballistics and other items. The records show that under President Joe Biden, some U.S. officials were supportive of deep-sea mining – and that support has expanded with an executive order signed by President Donal Trump, encouraging ...
In “The Adoption Trap,” freelance journalist Sandy West took a deep look at private foster and adoption agencies operating in Texas with little regulation or oversight from state child welfare authorities. With support from the Fund, West focused on two women locked in court battles to maintain their parental rights in lawsuits filed by people to whom neither they nor ...
As part of the Utah Investigative Journalism Project’s ongoing coverage of gaps in support for survivors of domestic violence and lackluster law-enforcement response in some cases, Eric Peterson and Sydnee Chapman reported on the case of a man who allegedly attacked his girlfriend and kidnapped her children – after Utah prosecutors had dropped charges against him in a 2022 domestic-violence ...
Journalist Rebecca Grant’s new book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom, from Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press, charts the reproductive freedom movement from the days before Roe through the seismic impact of Dobbs, the U.S. Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban abortion. With support from the Fund, Grant investigated how, in the wake of the Dobbs decision, ...
For Rolling Stone, Antonia Juhasz traveled through rural Louisiana and New Orleans to talk to local community members about how President Donald Trump’s tax bill would gut funding for environmental work – and how that would impact people’s lives. An EPA employee told her that the result will surely be that more people get sick and die. With support from ...