Caregiving and Care Economy Reporting Grants Available from the Better Life Lab
The Better Life Lab is offering reporting stipends to support journalism and storytelling exploring the causes and consequences of the ongoing child care crisis in the United States as well as potential solutions that may be currently in development in communities, workplaces, and states across the country.
We are no longer accepting pitches for caregiving and care economy pieces. However, we will begin to accept new submissions if and when we receive additional funding.
The Better Life Lab is offering reporting grants for reported, data and character-driven stories as well as personal essays that explore what it means to live in a country with no national guarantee of access to child care for working parents, especially in the midst of a deadly pandemic. Specifically, the Lab is supporting reporting that explores the causes and consequences of the ongoing crisis, as well as the potential solutions that may currently be in development in communities, workplaces, and states across the country. We are particularly interested in work that explores equity across race, class, and gender, and that explores families of multiple sizes and types (single parent, multi-generational, non-nuclear, etc.).
The Lab will support reported essays and stories in multi-media formats including print and digital writing, data visualization, audio, and visual pieces. Stories could explore, among other things:
- How children’s emotional and intellectual development may be stymied by a sudden lack of access to quality child care and early education.
- How the lack of child care available to working parents has impacted their labor participation and economic stability.
- How states, municipalities, communities, and workplaces have responded to the crisis and how these responses may hold key lessons for solving the crisis.
The Lab will work with grantees to shape, edit, and place their stories. Pieces written or edited by Better Life Lab team members have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Washington Monthly, Slate, Vox, Financial Times, Harvard Business Review, CNN and other publications. The Better Life Lab podcast, hosted by director, journalist, and author Brigid Schulte, hit the Top 50 on Apple podcasts.
Contact Us
Please send story pitches for the paid family and medical leave reporting grant to Haley Swenson at swenson@newamerica.org or Brigid Schulte at schulte@newamerica.org. Pitches will be considered and grants awarded on a rolling basis throughout 2020.
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