Full name
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Email
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Mailing address
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Phone number
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Have you received a grant from the National Geographic Society?
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Provide a brief overview of the impact your previous National Geographic Society grant project(s) created.
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What is the highest degree of education you have achieved?
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Primary / Elementary school or lower
Secondary school
Vocational education / training
Associate’s degree or some undergraduate academic school
Undergraduate academic degree (e.g. Bachelor of Science, Licenciatura, License, etc.)
Graduate academic degree (e.g. Master of Science, Master of Arts, etc.)
Doctorate or equivalent professional degree (Ph.D. Ed.D, J.D., M.D, etc.)Option 7
Other, please describe:
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Current position or job title
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Name of institution, organization or company
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Project title
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Total budget for this project ($CAD)
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Project start date
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Project end date
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The primary focus area for your project is:
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Water
Wildlife
Land
The primary discipline for your project is:
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Storytelling
Research
Conservation
Education
Innovation
The secondary discipline for your project is:
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Storytelling
Research
Conservation
Education
Innovation
Do you expect your project to achieve any of the below results? Please select all that apply.
Brief project summary
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In a few sentences, briefly describe your project. Write the paragraph as if you were speaking to a member of the general public about your work, avoiding jargon. Summarize your goal, and explain why your project is important, exciting, and/or novel.
Project background
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Explain the issue, story, or topic your project will address, and describe the context in which your project will take place. The ideal project is compelling, timely and relevant. Why is your project topic important and timely, and how is locally or nationally relevant? What is different about your proposal than others who have worked on this issue or topic?
Goals and objectives
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What are the goal(s) of your project? What is it intended to accomplish, and how will you know if you’ve succeeded? The ideal project is closely aligned with the Trebek Initiative's mission, and has specific, time-bound, clearly described, and realistic goals. Provide a very detailed description of a maximum of 3 goals for your project (you can use a bullet list here), including:
● What the goal(s) are (i.e., what change will happen if your project works the way you want it to?)
● What the major outcomes, products, or outputs of your project will be. Some examples could include publications, public knowledge/educational resources, technology products, new models or frameworks for thinking about a topic, improved knowledge or changed behavior for your main audiences, improved management of an area, etc. Please don’t restrict your thinking here, we are interested in every important outcome you expect to accomplish
● Who or what is impacted by your goal(s)
● How you will know if you’ve accomplished your goal(s).
Storytelling applicants only: Production plan
Using your proposed start and end dates, provide a timeline outlining your plan to produce your storytelling project, including story research and pre-production, field work, post-production, and project distribution (this can be in the form of a bulleted list). Please detail any already established relationships and contacts highlighting your story access to the individual(s) and community(ies), and tell us about how you plan to reach the main audiences or stakeholders of your proposed project. If you have any media commitments or interest for this project, including those already held by your home institution or other funding bodies. The ideal project will have a clearly articulated, specific, realistic plan that is likely to reach its main audiences or stakeholders.
Research and education applicants only: Activities or methods
Explain how you plan to complete your project, and why your plan is the best way to achieve your goal(s).
The ideal project will have a clearly articulated, specific, realistic plan that is likely to achieve the project goal(s).
This section should contain:
● A detailed step-by-step timeline and description of your plan, including a description of your activities, methods, and/or tools, as applicable
● An explanation of why your plan is likely to achieve your goal(s)
● An explanation of how your plan either matches up with best practices for your field, or how your approach is new or different
Risks
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Explain the main risks or challenges that you might encounter while completing your project, and how you plan to address them. The Trebek Initiative recognizes that no project is completely risk-free or without challenges, and that projects can be impacted by factors outside of your control. Please provide a realistic assessment of the main risks or challenges (such as social, political, physical, technical, logistical, financial, safety, etc.) you may encounter while completing your project, and what back-up plans you have in place to overcome them.
Sustained impact
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If applicable, how will your project be sustained once your Trebek Initiative grant ends? Not all Trebek Initiative grant-funded projects are intended to continue past their proposed end date. However, many Grantees continue their activities, scale up their work, or continue to achieve results well beyond their Trebek Initiative funding period. If this question applies to your project, how will you ensure that your project continues to thrive after the Trebek Initiative grant period ends? What relationships, funding, leadership and management systems, etc. will you put in place to make sure your impacts don’t fade once your Trebek Initiative grant ends?
Works cited
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Communication, engagement, and distribution plan
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Provide examples of your past experience engaging with audiences or stakeholders about your work, and tell us about how you plan to reach the main audiences or stakeholders of your proposed project. If you have any media commitments or interest for this project, including those already held by your home institution or other funding bodies, please describe those here as well. The ideal candidate is passionate about engaging with diverse audiences and communicating about their causes, and we want to know how you plan to reach the main audiences or stakeholders of your proposed project. Please make sure that if you propose to create a communication product, you also describe how it will be published or shared with those you want to reach. Some of the common communication products successful Grantees use include, but are not limited to:
● Community outreach or engagement with any people or groups involved in or impacted by your work
● Digital or written publications (such as articles, social media, or blogs)
● Education or training
● Visual storytelling (such as photography or video)
● Speaking engagements or presentations
● Press or media engagements
● Scientific communication such as peer-reviewed articles, conference presentations or white papers
Engagement plan
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Describe the people or groups impacted by and involved with this project, and explain how you plan to directly or indirectly engage them in each of its phases. Ideally, people or groups impacted by a project (particularly local communities) are directly involved in its design and implementation, though the Trebek Initiative recognizes this is not always possible. In this section, be sure to explain:
● How you will coordinate and collaborate with each person or group, including integrating local knowledge and/or acknowledging different contributions of the local community(ies)
● How the project as envisioned will benefit each person or group
● Which specific outputs or deliverables each person or group will be involved in creating
● How you will assess whether each person's or group's needs or interests have been met once the project concludes
Project leader skills, expertise and connection to local context
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Describe the skills, attributes, and/or professional experiences that make you uniquely qualified to lead your project. Feel free to include any relevant information that is not in your CV. Please refer to your specific funding opportunity for additional details. If you plan to conduct fieldwork, or implement your project in a local community, please explain how you are familiar with or connected to the areas where you plan to conduct your work. The ideal candidate has a strong understanding of, and connection to, the local context in which they are conducting their work. Many Trebek Grantees:
● Are members of their local communities
● Live in or near the areas where they conduct fieldwork,
● Speak the local languages necessary to implement their projects, and
● Have strong and/or long-standing relationships with stakeholders who can impact or are impacted by their work
Team member one
Include name, email address and a few sentences that describe the team member’s role, and explain how their skills and experience make them uniquely qualified to work on your project.
Team member two
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Team member three
Include name, email address and a few sentences that describe the team member’s role, and explain how their skills and experience make them uniquely qualified to work on your project.
Team member four
Include name, email address and a few sentences that describe the team member’s role, and explain how their skills and experience make them uniquely qualified to work on your project.
Team member five
Include name, email address and a few sentences that describe the team member’s role, and explain how their skills and experience make them uniquely qualified to work on your project.
Additional funding sources
List any additional funders for this project, including the type of support received (in kind, cash, credits etc.) and the amount. Please indicate if amounts have been received, expected or requested.
Ethical certification
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By submitting this application, I represent that I am in compliance with the ethical standards and codes of practice for my discipline, and specifically the requirements for projects relating to human or animal subjects. I further agree that I practice the National Geographic Society's internal values including honesty, fairness, and transparency. Lastly, I agree that the Trebek Initiative may share details about the project at the time of award.
