AAN Foundation
AAN believes that staff diversity is good business, good citizenship, and an invaluable element of good community journalism. But as an industry, the alternative press has found it difficult to attract and retain minority writers and editors.
The Alternative Newsweekly Foundation was created in 2003 to support diversity by promoting the recruitment, training, and hiring of minorities at alternative newsweeklies. The Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, which provides a means for AAN members and others to make tax-deductible charitable contributions that help fund diversity-related programs such as the Diversity Internship Grants and the former Academy for Alternative Journalism.
The AAN Diversity Grant Program awards up to four grants of $1,250 each per year. AAN member papers may submit an application at any time. There are no deadlines or application cycles.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION
If you need more information, please call (202) 289-8484, or send an e-mail to Debra Silvestrin.
Read AAN articles about past grant recipients:
The following archive of AAN News articles provides an historical overview of the Academy since its inception:
The Alternative Newsweekly Foundation was created in 2003 to support diversity by promoting the recruitment, training, and hiring of minorities at alternative newsweeklies. The Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization, which provides a means for AAN members and others to make tax-deductible charitable contributions that help fund diversity-related programs such as the Diversity Internship Grants and the former Academy for Alternative Journalism.
Diversity Grant Program
The AAN Diversity Grant Program supports member papers’ efforts to add diversity to their newsrooms and to encourage minority journalists to start their careers at alternative newsweeklies. AAN member papers may apply for a grant to hire an intern, or to develop an editorial project that demonstrably serves people of color living in the paper’s city.The AAN Diversity Grant Program awards up to four grants of $1,250 each per year. AAN member papers may submit an application at any time. There are no deadlines or application cycles.
CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE APPLICATION
If you need more information, please call (202) 289-8484, or send an e-mail to Debra Silvestrin.
Read AAN articles about past grant recipients:
- Summer/Fall 2006
- Interns Render Mission-Critical Assistance
- 2006 Diversity Internship Recipient Offers a Fresh Perspective
- Winter/Spring 2005
- Diversity Internship Recipients Bring Artistic Ambition to Alt-Weeklies
- Jackson, New Haven Alts Receive Diversity Grants
- Summer/Fall 2004
- Diversity Internships Help Launch Writing Careers
- Papers in Orange County and Pittsburgh Win Diversity Grants
- Winter/Spring 2004
- Diversity Internships Benefit Coverage at Two AAN Papers
- Jackson Free Press, San Antonio Current Receive Diversity Grants
- Winter/Spring 2003
- Summer/Fall 2002
- Winter/Spring 2002
- Summer/Fall 2001
Academy for Alternative Journalism
The Academy for Alternative Journalism, a residential summer program designed to train and recruit minority journalists to work at AAN papers, was launched in 2000 by the Chicago Reader and ran through 2009.The following archive of AAN News articles provides an historical overview of the Academy since its inception:
- 2008
- 2006
- 2005
- 2004
- 2004 Academy Fellows Gain an Alternative Outlook
- Academy for Alternative Journalism 2004 Fellows Chosen
- 2003
- 2002
- Academy Grad's Real Trial Begins
- AAJ Fellows Named
- Huge Increase in Academy for Alternative Journalism Applications
- Whitaker Named Director of Academy for Alternative Journalism
- 2001
- 2000
