Grants For Creators with March 2025 Deadlines

We are officially in the busiest grant cycle of the year!

Preview our March 2025 grants list which features (70+) funding opportunities totaling approximately $527K.

Plus, there are an additional (90) grants with February deadlines, too. Click here for our full February 2025 grant list.

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Preview (5) awards for March right here on LinkedIn.

1. Ted Scripps Fellowships in Environmental Journalism

Are you a journalist ready to take your career to the next level? Spend a year at the University of Colorado as a Ted Scripps Fellow. You’ll deepen your understanding of environmental issues, hone your craft, and enjoy a break from deadlines while living at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. As a fellow, you’ll audit classes and pursue an independent project of your design. Fellows receive a stipend of $80,000 and will travel (expenses paid) to the Society of Environmental Journalists annual conference. At a minimum, applicants must have five years of full-time professional journalism experience and a BA or BS college degree.

Deadline: March 1, 2025

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2. Plutus Foundation Personal Finance Content Creator Grant

This opportunity provides grant money and resources to foster opportunities for the financial media to create, develop, and administer community-based programs that enhance financial literacy, education, and empowerment. The Foundation makes two or more grants available to members of the personal finance media during RFP (request for proposal) windows. These grants help content creators provide community-based financial education and/or financial literacy programs. Grants are awarded to members of the independent financial media who work to create financial literacy programs in their community. Members of the financial media, including but not limited to bloggers, podcasters, vloggers, journalists, speakers, and authors, are invited to apply. Educators are also eligible. Each recipient in this round will receive $2,000.

Deadline: March 3, 2025

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3. Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award - For African American Poets

This opportunity offers a prize of $500 and publication for a poetry collection by an African American poet. Submissions should consist of two manuscript copies ranging from 60 to 90 pages. There is no entry fee for this competition.

Deadline: March 15, 2025

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4. The Richard G. Zimmerman Scholarship for Journalism - For High School Seniors

This opportunity is named for a long-time National Press Club member who died in 2008 and endowed a scholarship for high school seniors who wish to pursue a career in journalism. Recipients receive a one-time scholarship of $5,000. Applicants must be high school seniors applying for admission to an accredited college or university in the U.S., have a 3.0 grade point average or higher, and plan to pursue a career in journalism.

Deadline: March 16, 2025

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5. The Irene Yamamoto Arts Writers Fellowship - For Emerging Writers of Color

Writers of color have knowledge and experiences that differ from the dominant Eurocentric ones, and their perspectives give art produced by marginalized communities the depth of attention and consideration it deserves. The fellowship seeks to encourage critics of color starting out in the field to continue writing about works from their own cultural and political perspectives, enriching and broadening cultural criticism as a practice and profession. By supporting and highlighting these voices, the fellowship seeks to broaden public discourse and strengthen participation in cultural conversations by diverse communities.

This year’s fellowship will provide $5,000 unrestricted awards to two emerging writers of color who write critically about music. Applicants should have less than two years of publication experience, live in the United States or be citizens of the United States abroad, and identify as members of a community with ancestry in one of the original peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Oceania, or the Pacific Islands.

Deadline: March 17, 2025

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