Closed · PDS-NEWZEALAND-2024-12 · CFDA 19.040 · Mandatory
Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Identify and Counter Disinformation
Federal grant opportunity posted by U.S. Mission to New Zealand, cataloged on Grants.gov.
- $5K-$20K
- Award range
- Closed
- Status
- August 23, 2024
- Close date
- 5
- Expected awards
The verdict
Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Identify and Counter Disinformation is a closed mandatory listing from U.S. Mission to New Zealand that offered $5,000 -- $20,000 across 5 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 40 other opportunities from U.S. Mission to New Zealand.
- $5K-$20K
- award range
- Closed
- application status
- 5
- expected awards
- 19.040
- CFDA program
Archived opportunity record
Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Ident… is closed (last close August 23, 2024). The parent program page for CFDA 19.040 is the reliable place to catch re-announcements. U.S. Mission to New Zealand still indexes 40 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 August 23, 2024
Est. Total Funding
$20,000
Expected Awards
5
Instrument
Grant
Description
The U.S. Embassy of New Zealand Public Diplomacy Section (PDS) of the U.S. Department of State announces an open competition for organizations and individuals s to submit applications to carry out projects that will strengthen media capacity, provide media training, and/or provide substantive benefit to media networks in New Zealand and the Pacific by increasing and refining their ability to provide independent, accurate, and fair coverage of topics of importance to the Pacific to their audiences in New Zealand and the Pacific nations. Priority Region: New Zealand and the Pacific. Program Objectives: This funding opportunity aligns with the United States’ goal to strengthen democratic institutions, protect human rights, and accelerate the fight against disinformation. The second Summit for Democracy affirmed the commitment of the U.S. Government to support free and independent media around the world. Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”. One of the key purposes of the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Cyberspace and Digital Policy’s “Democratic Roadmap; Building Civic resilience to the Global Digital Information Manipulation Challenge” is to recognize that building information integrity can be consistent with freedom of opinion and expression. The Roadmap states, “access to fact-based information is essential for citizens to form opinions and exercise their rights,” a fundamental principle of democracy. Without access to fair and balanced media coverage, which starts with a resilient and informed media with the capacity to identify and counter disinformation, the democratic values that we share with our neighbors in the Pacific region will be at risk. This Funding Opportunity aims to provide assistance to organizations and/or individuals committed to the ideals of a media free from interference from outside sources of any kind.
Campus–civic applicant bridge · 5 doors
Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Ident… bridges educational institutions with civic applicant types (5 doors: Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education; Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs); Private institutions of higher education; +1 more). Expect campus and public/nonprofit operators in the same printed set. The extract does not mark applicant cost-sharing as required. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity code maps to Regional Development (RD). 7 other U.S. Mission to New Zealand listings share this eligibility-code string (17% of 41).
- Code 06
- Public / state-controlled institutions of higher education
- Code 12
- Nonprofits with 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
- Code 13
- Nonprofits without 501(c)(3) status (other than IHEs)
- Code 20
- Private institutions of higher education
- Code 21
- Individuals
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.
Official Listing on Grants.gov
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Parent Grant Program
USAID International Development Grants
U.S. Department of State
Agency Contact
Tracey Zemanek Resource Management Specialist Phone 6444626122
What to do next
Strengthening Pacific Media Capacity to Ident… 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 New Zealand lists 40 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog
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