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Announcing our 2024 grant winners!

“Would that idea work here in this city?” As a journalist and champion of cities, that’s the kind of question my father would ask constantly while out on the road.(His mind would also be racing about who to interview, where to go for context and local color, and...

2024 Grant applications are open!

I am excited to announce that the application window is now open for the next round of our Journalism Travel Grants!My father, the late journalist Neal Peirce, was always on the road searching for promising policies, programs and ideas to write about in his...

Announcing our 2023-24 travel grant winners

Cities, solutions, and journalism were major ingredients in my father’s life. In making stories happen through this foundation, we honor that part of his legacy and add to a rising wave of interest and attention in these topics.  He’d love that!  We’re in...

Stories to share; 2023 Grant applications open!

When it came to telling funny stories, my Dad, Neal Peirce, always envied friends and colleagues who could really hold the room and make people double over in laughter. “I just wish I could do that!” he would say. In truth he was pretty good at it, and his...

Announcing our 2022-23 travel grant winners

I’m thrilled to announce the winners of the Neal Peirce Foundation’s 2022-23 journalism travel grants! Our support of up to $1,500 each will enable seven journalists to go out on the road, as my father did for so much of his career, to report stories about how cities...