http://corporate.gettyimages.com/marketing/grants_editorial/index.asp
Eligibility: Must Present Photographic Project Proposal
Amount: $20,000
This is an amazing opportunity to fund your projects. Look at what Getty has to say about their grant.
"Getty Images believes in the power of photojournalism to bring attention to significant social and cultural issues. We also know the rigors of executing world-class photography assignments and understand that in order to produce their best work, photojournalists need time, freedom and support.
Getty Images is thus pleased to offer Grants for Editorial Photography."
DEADLINE June 15, 2008 - Ian Parry Scholarship
Eligibility: Must be enrolled in full-time schooling or be under that age of 24 (As was Ian Parry when he died)
Amount: up to $1000
"Each year we hold a competition for photographers who are either attending a full-time photography course or are under the age of 24. Entrants must submit a portfolio of their work and a brief synopsis of a project they would undertake if they won the scholarship. The prize is £2,500 towards their assignment. Metro Imaging also offer £500 worth of vouchers to the winner and £250 to those awarded highly commended and commended.
DEADLINE July 15, 2008 - W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund
Amount: $30,000
Eligibility: Past Body of Work and Project Proposal
"The W. Eugene Smith Grant in Humanistic Photography is presented annually to a photographer whose past work and proposed project, as judged by a panel of experts, follows the tradition of W. Eugene Smith's compassionate dedication exhibited during his 45-year career as a photographic essayist. For 2007, the grant will be $30,000, with an additional $5,000 in fellowship money to be awarded at the discretion of the jury. The grant program is independently administered by the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund."
"In one way or another, a finalist must approach Gene Smith's own high standards. 'I am a compassionate cynic,' he wrote, 'yet I believe I am one of the most affirmative photographers around. I have tried to let the truth be my prejudice. It has taken much sweat. It has been worth it.'"
http://www.alexiafoundation.org/
Eligibility: Student of Professional (Two different grants)
Amount: $15,000 (professional) & Full-tuition Scholarship to study in London and $1,000 grant for project
The Alexia Foundation offers this professional grant to enable a photographer to have the financial ability to produce a substantial picture story that furthers the Foundation's goals of promoting world peace and cultural understanding.
Photographers from anywhere in the world may apply. An application requires a project proposal of not more than 750 words and a portfolio.
http://www.aliciapatterson.org/
Eligibility: Full-time Journalists (check for eligibility)
Amount: $35,000
"The Alicia Patterson fellowships are open only to U.S. citizens who are fulltime print journalists, or to non-U.S. citizens who work fulltime for U.S. print publications, either in America or abroad. The aim of the trustees who established the foundation was to improve the quality of U.S. print journalism. Foreign journalists seeking fellowship help may want to consult the annual list of contest and awards compiled by Editor and Publisher magazine in New York City. That issue is published the last week of December each year and can often be found in business libraries. The magazine will sell individual copies of the issue for $3."
Photographers:
1. Please submit 8 to 12 samples. These can be published photographs or unmounted prints. No slides please. Samples cannot exceed 12 x 14 inches.