2027 Indigenous Community Media Fund Call for Proposals
Grants to Indigenous community radio stations, communicator collectives, and media outlets for community storytelling, documentation, and media capacity building, with an environmental-justice and climate priority for the 2027 round.
- Indicative award
- $2k–$12k (total award)The 2027 call itself does not state an amount. Cultural Survival's own grantmaking page describes Indigenous Community Media Fund grants of $1,500 to $12,000 per project; treat the range as indicative, not a published 2027 figure.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · AugPublished deadline: 2026-08-09 — passed2027 round closes August 9, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. EST. Shortlisted interviews November 2026, awards announced from December 15, 2026, implementation March-October 2027.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Applicants must be Indigenous organizations, community radio stations, media networks, or communicator collectives in listed eligible countries across Africa, Asia, Central and South America, and North America. Networks of Indigenous women communicators and youth and 2SLGBTQ+ groups get special consideration; this is not a fund a university applies to directly.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- community media · indigenous radio · climate and environmental justice · community storytelling · freedom of expression
- Apply at
- https://www.culturalsurvival.org/news/2027-call-proposals-indigenous-community-media
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
Amounts and dates on this page are indicative and are maintained by people rather than scraped. Funders change ceilings, windows and eligibility without notice; confirm all details at the source above before applying.
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