{"id":189854,"date":"2021-05-24T09:42:38","date_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:42:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mdda-grants-funding-opens-for-community-media\/"},"modified":"2021-05-24T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2021-05-24T07:42:38","slug":"mdda-grants-funding-opens-for-community-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mdda-grants-funding-opens-for-community-media\/","title":{"rendered":"MDDA grants funding opens for community media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is today officially opening the 2021\/22 call for Grant Funding Applications.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for grant funding open on Monday 24 May, and will continue for a six-week period.<\/p>\n<p>The agency is inviting community media projects in radio, TV, print and digital publications, as well as small commercial print to apply for funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese Grant Funding Applications aim to encourage media ownership, access and control particularly by historically disadvantaged communities and diminished indigenous language and cultural groups,\u201d MDDA CEO, Zukiswa Potye said.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Friday, the agency said funding is one of the central factors towards ensuring successful empowerment, sustainability, and transformation in the community media sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo this end, the application process will be effected through compliant, cost-effective and transparent selection procedures, in-line with corporate governance principles and compliance with the agency\u2019s legislative framework,\u201d MDDA said.<\/p>\n<p>The qualifying criteria and online application system are obtainable on the MDDA website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdda.org.za\">www.mdda.org.za<\/a> .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFurther, and in an effort to secure equitable and fair geographic distribution of participating projects, the MDDA will also conduct a national outreach programme to raise awareness on media development and diversity; and assist interested parties with the completion of application forms,\u201d the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The outreach programme will take place from 31 May 2021 in Tshwane, Gauteng.<\/p>\n<p>Applications may be submitted through the MDDA website, via e-mail or a hard-copy delivery at the MDDA offices. \u2013<strong>SAnews.gov.za<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Media Development and Diversity Agency (MDDA) is today officially opening the 2021\/22 call for Grant Funding Applications. Applications for grant funding open on Monday 24 May, and will continue for a six-week period. The agency is inviting community media projects in radio, TV, print and digital publications, as well as small commercial print to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[38678],"class_list":{"0":"post-189854","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-sanews","8":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}