Closed · M-NOFO-20-103 · CFDA 19.040 · Discretionary

Stopping the Spread of Disinformation - Training Emerging Journalists

Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. Mission to India, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$20K-$75K
Award range
Closed
Status
May 22, 2020
Close date
1
Expected awards

The verdict

Stopping the Spread of Disinformation - Training Emerging Journalists is a closed discretionary listing from U.S. Mission to India that offered $20,000 -- $75,000 across 1 expected award. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 329 other opportunities from U.S. Mission to India.

$20K-$75K
award range
Closed
application status
1
expected award
19.040
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

Stopping the Spread of Disinformation is closed (last close May 22, 2020). The parent program page for CFDA 19.040 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. U.S. Mission to India still indexes 329 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed May 22, 2020

Posted Mar 26 Closes May 22

Est. Total Funding

$75,000

Expected Awards

1

Instrument

Grant

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

This funding opportunity seeks to improve and expand upon past efforts of the U.S. diplomatic mission to India by building the capacity of emerging journalists in western and southern India to combat disinformation with informed and compelling reporting. By engaging emerging journalists with the message that they have the responsibility to be honest gatekeepers of truth and by providing them with the skills to fulfill that role, the program will provide the Indian information environment with strong counter-voices to disinformation. The program will invite at least 100 participants to multiple day training workshops taught by U.S. and local experts. Project Goal: To increase Indian journalists’ ability to identify and stop disinformation. Project Audience: The primary audience will be early to mid-career journalists as well as journalism students. Here the term “journalist” is intended to include reporters of TV, print, and online news media outlets For further details, please refer to the full announcement available under "related documents" tab).

Campus–civic applicant bridge · 3 doors

Stopping the Spread of Disinformation bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (3 doors: Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Private institutions of higher education). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity codes span Community Development · Consumer Protection · Education (CD;CP;ED). This eligibility-code string dominates the U.S. Mission to India book (241 peers, 73% of 330).

Code 06
Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
Code 12
Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
Code 20
Private institutions of higher education

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

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Parent Grant Program

CFDA 19.040

USAID International Development Grants

U.S. Department of State

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Agency Contact

Grant Applications Manager MumbaiGrants@state.gov

What to do next

Stopping the Spread of Disinformation is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Parent CFDA 19.040 may publish future NOFOs under the same assistance listing. Open program
  • USAID International Development Grants indexes 47 Grants.gov listings in this extract. Program profile
  • U.S. Mission to India lists 329 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

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