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Photo credit: Chicago Art Department
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RDLF News: Issue 20
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Rozina Breen: "Shoot for the Moon"
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During a recent visit to Chicago, Rozina Breen, CEO and Editor-in-Chief of The Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) in the UK, sat down with members of the RDLF team to talk about her experiences as a nonprofit leader of color.
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Rozina is an award-winning editor who joined TBIJ in 2022 from the BBC. Her vision is to diversify the organization’s storytelling, representation, and sources of revenue.
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Through our work with the Leaders of Color Collective (LOCC), we have seen that many nonprofit leaders, especially those of color, face unique hardships caused by a lack of trust and a withholding of resources due to ill-founded discrimination by many traditional philanthropic organizations and government agencies. However, we’ve learned that by being in community with their peers and having frank conversations about shared obstacles, nonprofit leaders of color can build toward collective action and power. We were very curious to hear how Rozina’s experience compared to our Chicago-based grantees and the LOCC initiative.
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Patric McCoy at the Crystal Ball
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Last month, RDLF staff members Jessie Mott and Jessica Jones-Lewis attended Chicago Art Department's (CAD) Crystal Ball to celebrate our board member, Patric McCoy. The event featured his new exhibition in partnership with Diana Solís, titled Just Below The Surface. It re-envisions existing LGBTQ+ narratives to examine and celebrate the enduring legacy and transformative histories of Chicago’s Black and Brown communities. Photography from the exhibition is on view at CAD until October 26th. You can also place bids on the artwork through this online auction, which ends on October 27th.
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Grantee Accomplishments
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Welcome to the CCWF Paper Trail
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Photo credit: Monique Williams
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In a previous issue, we highlighted the opening of the new media center at Central California Women’s Facility (CCWF), opened by Pollen Initiative in March. Now, 6 months later, CCWF has launched their brand-new monthly newspaper called Paper Trail. The newspaper is written by those incarcerated at CCWF—the largest women’s prison in the world—for other residents and the staff at the institution.
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Congratulations to the following partners, who recently received awards:
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In addition, "well done" to the following partners who were recently featured in news and media:
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- Chicago Sun Times explores how D-Composed is reshaping Chicago’s classical music scene, creating a platform for Black artists to shine and expand the genre’s boundaries.
- Inside Climate News partnered with CBS Reports for an investigative piece delving into the promising but controversial practice of "advanced recycling."
- Mateo Mulcahy from International Latino Cultural Center appears on Domingos en Vocalo to discuss the importance of cultural preservation and representation within the Latino community, particularly through the arts.
- Camesha L. Jones from Sista Afya Community Care is featured on PBS Newshour explaining how the Black community faces more than one kind of stressor that affects a person's mental wellness, and the importance of ensuring that more Black providers enter the mental health field.
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Upcoming Opportunities
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Join the Double Exposure 2024 Volunteer Team
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- Ushering at screenings and the symposium
- Assisting at the registration and/or box office tables
- Assisting with festival set up
This is an exciting opportunity for anyone interested in investigative journalism, documentary film, community building, and event management. For details on the roles and benefits for volunteers, please visit the Double Exposure website.
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Golden Egg Grant for Chicago's Freelance Musicians
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Golden Egg is a new artist-led initiative strengthening financial security for freelance musicians. Golden Egg is rooted in the belief that every artist deserves the right to age in good health, retire if they choose to, and work how they want throughout their entire life. The project aspires to create a vision for lasting, shared wealth in the music industry, and to build the collective power artists need to bring that vision into existence.
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This fall, Golden Egg is giving out $50,000 in retirement matching grants to Chicago artists aged 20-65. The application is simple and should only take about 15 minutes to apply. Applications are open now through November 1st. Learn more and apply here.
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More Open Applications
- Environmental Investigative Journalism Grant: This grant can be awarded to cross-border teams of professional journalists and/or news outlets to conduct investigations into environmental affairs related to Europe. The resulting stories must be published in at least two outlets in two different countries, at least one must be a European media. The application deadline is October 24th at 6:00am CT.
- IJ4EU fund: The Investigative Journalism for Europe (IJ4EU) program opened two new calls for proposals. The Investigation Support Scheme will provide grants of up to €50,000 to allow journalistic teams of any type — including newsrooms and specialist investigative outlets — to team up across frontiers on ambitious projects. The Freelancer Support Scheme will provide grants of up to €20,000 to cross-border investigative teams made up predominantly of freelance journalists. The application deadline for both proposals is October 28th at 4:59pm CT.
- #CREATECOP29: #CREATECOP29 is calling on artists and creatives aged 14 to 30 to submit work that engages with the urgent need for climate action. Applicants can apply with any medium, including, but not limited to, photography projects, docu-style and experimental film, performance art, spoken word, musical compositions, fashion design, new media, and social media projects. Eight finalists will be awarded cash prizes of $10k, $5k, or $2k. An additional 20 creatives will receive honorable mentions. The submission deadline is October 31st.
- Movement Building and Systems Change Grant: This grant from the Lohengrin Foundation explicitly seeks to fund organizations engaging in organizing, power building, policy, and advocacy efforts that address the issue areas of educational equity, arts education access and funding, community safety, and criminal justice reform. Organizations who directly engage youth, parents, returning citizens, and justice-informed individuals and leaders are encouraged to apply. The application deadline is November 1st at 11:59pm CT.
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Job Openings
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Investigative Reporting Program at UC Berkeley: This two-part series reveals a secret system of legal settlements that has concealed corruption, criminality and misconduct by law enforcement officers throughout California for decades.
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MindSite News: "Participants in a South Side summit celebrate the planned reopening of community clinics and a shift to crisis response teams that don’t rely on police."
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Airwars: “In the largest public analysis of Israeli military strike footage, Airwars, in collaboration with Sky News, reviewed hundreds of clips of strikes the IDF said were targeting Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza that were posted on official military social media accounts in the first month of the war."
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism: "Data obtained by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism (TBIJ) covering the past two years showed that farms supplying Cargill are still using antibiotics that the World Health Organization (WHO) deems vital for human health."
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We'd like to hear from you!
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Thanks for reading! We have an open call for content from our partners to highlight the brilliant work they're doing in the community. If you are a current grantee or partner with The Reva and David Logan Foundation and you would like to contribute to our next newsletter, please reach out to Sabrina Boggs, Communications Coordinator at sabrina(at)loganfdn(dot)org. Please note that we will not share fundraising campaigns.
In addition, we are frequently reposting our grantees on our social media, so make sure to follow us and tag us in your posts! Links to our socials are below.
See you next time!
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