Native American Journalists Association
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Grants
5
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Total Awarded
$283,000
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Years
2022 - 2024
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Categories
Grants
2024 ( 3 months)
$6,500
The Native American Journalists Association (known as the Indigenous Journalism Association) empowers 1,000 members representing tribal, nonprofit, freelance, and mainstream media professionals in promoting accurate coverage of Indigenous communities, supporting newsroom diversity, and defending challenges to free press, speech, and expression.
NAJA will host the 2024 Indigenous Media Conference July 25-27, 2024.
NAJA will host skills-building, informational and hands-on workshops that will foster opportunities for professional growth. Attendees and participants will also generate stories and connect with Indigenous communities through networking and special events. Attendees represent academia, corporate, print and digital media, public relations, communications, and tribal representatives.
2023 ( 3 months)
$20,000
The Native American Journalists Association (now known as the Indigenous Journalists Association) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to supporting the work of Indigenous journalists and advocating for accurate and more complete portrayals of Indigenous communities in the media. This grant supports outreach screening events in New York City and Los Angeles to enable four critically acclaimed documentary films to reach new audiences, exploring the need for new forms of documentary distribution.
2023 ( 3 months)
$6,500
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) empowers 1,000 members representing tribal, nonprofit, freelance, and mainstream media professionals in promoting accurate coverage of Indigenous communities, supporting newsroom diversity, and defending challenges to free press, speech, and expression.
NAJA will host the 2023 National Native Media Conference (NNMC) Aug. 10-12, 2023.
More than 300 attendees from across the U.S., and Canada will participate in the 2023 National Native Media Conference. NAJA will host skills-building, informational and hands-on workshops that will foster opportunities for professional growth. Attendees and participants will also generate stories and connect with Indigenous communities through networking and special events. Attendees represent academia, corporate, print and digital media, public relations, communications, and tribal representatives.
2023 (4 years)
$200,000
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of advocating for Indigenous journalists across the globe. NAJA’s work includes hosting an annual conference, providing trainings and workshops, disseminating materials for the wider media field on how to accurately cover Indigenous communities, and its Red Press Initiative, which tracks the press freedom of tribal media across the United States and works to builds the capacity of these outlets. This grant is recommended as a renewal of general operating support, and the intended outcomes are holistic resources for Indigenous journalists to connect and build careers, more accurate representation of Indigenous communities in the media writ large, and more support for tribal media.
2022 (1 year)
$50,000
The Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) is a nonprofit organization with the mission of advocating for Indigenous journalists across the globe. NAJA’s work includes an annual conference, trainings and materials for the wider media field on how to accurately cover Indigenous communities, and its Red Press Initiative, which tracks the press freedom of tribal media across the United States and works to builds the capacity of these outlets. This grant is recommended as general operating support and the intended outcomes are holistic resources for Indigenous journalists to connect and build careers, more accurate representation of Indigenous communities in the media writ large, and more support for tribal media.
