Logan Nonfiction Program Announces $1 Million Grant
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October 4, 2021
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Logan Nonfiction Program Announces $1 Million Grant
Jonathan Logan Family Foundation Will Fund 24 Logan Nonfiction Fellowships in 2022
Rensselaerville, N.Y. — A $1 million grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation will enable the Logan Nonfiction Program to support up to 24 media creators working on deeply reported, long-form nonfiction in 2022. The Foundation’s funding will enable the fellowship to continue its long support of journalists, documentary filmmakers, podcasters, photojournalists and multimedia producers.
Since its founding in 2015, the Logan Nonfiction Program has supported more than 240 journalists and documentary filmmakers. Work created during the fellowship has earned international acclaim, including the 2021 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction.
Originally an in-person residency, the Program adapted to COVID-19 regulations by offering an exclusively virtual fellowship in the fall of 2020 and throughout 2021. The $1 million grant will support the launch of a hybrid fellowship, which will combine virtual programming with in-person residency at the Carey Institute for Global Good in the upstate village of Rensselaerville, New York.
“The virtual program has been a great success,” said benefactor Jonathan Logan, “but there is no substitute for the mutual trust and support that develops among fellows when they are together in Rensselaerville. We’re thrilled to support this hybrid version of the program, which we hope will maximize fellows’ productivity while minimizing health risks due to COVID.”
The hybrid program will be conducted in the spring and late summer of 2022. Each 10-week class will support up to 12 fellows at work on deeply reported long-form nonfiction. Fellows will stay at the Carey Institute for Global Good’s historic, 100-acre campus in Rensselaerville for one week at the beginning of the program and a second week at its conclusion. In the interim eight weeks, fellows return home and remain in touch with their colleagues while attending events virtually. The fellowship will provide workshopping with expert mentors, capacity-building panels with award-winning journalists and documentary filmmakers, focused work sessions, film screenings and peer-to-peer feedback discussions.
“This generous grant from the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation allows us to continue providing much-needed professional support to journalists and filmmakers around the world. We are delighted to welcome Logan fellows back to the Carey Institute campus in 2022,” said Gareth Crawford, president and CEO of the Carey Institute for Global Good. “The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation’s continued backing of the fellowship and their flexibility as we adapt to a post-COVID environment underlines our shared value of empowering filmmakers and journalists to create the long-form nonfiction that changes our world.”
The Logan Nonfiction Program was created to address the gap between the shrinking resources media companies and book publishers devote to long-form narratives and the support a journalist or filmmaker needs. Providing nonfiction creators with time to work and the tools, mentors and community they need to finish critical works of journalism is not only essential to the continued production of these deep investigations, but also to the individuals, communities and democracy at large that these investigations serve.
Logan Nonfiction alumni represent more than 40 countries and include the award-winning journalists and filmmakers Daniel Ellsberg, author and former military analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers; filmmaker Jacqueline Olive, whose documentary “Always in Season” won a Sundance Special Jury Award; David Zucchino, winner of the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction; Jessica Bruder, whose book “Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century” was the basis for the Academy Award-winning film of the same title; and Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson, long-time reporter and bureau chief for NPR, along with many more award-winning media makers.
Applications for the 2022 fellowship will open Tuesday, October 12. For more information about the program and to access the application, visit logannonfiction.org/fellowship.
Primary funding for the Logan Nonfiction Program is provided by the Jonathan Logan Family Foundation — empowering world-changing work. Additional foundation support is provided by the Open Society Foundations.
The Logan Nonfiction Program’s mission is to empower writers, documentary filmmakers, photojournalists and multimedia creators to complete the nonfiction that changes our world. Logan Nonfiction fellows are known for bravely revealing inequality, illuminating untold truths and investigating the most pressing issues of the day through long-form narrative.
The Jonathan Logan Family Foundation supports organizations that advance social justice by empowering world-changing work in investigative journalism, arts and culture, and documentary film.
The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and inclusive democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.