Commercial Grants
A major goal for GMF’s founder, Ed Craney, was to improve commercial broadcasting in the state. There is no deadline for grant applications from commercial stations if you can demonstrate:
an urgent and critical issue (including the top priorities identified as most important by Montanans in the spring media survey: jobs and the economy; healthcare; and education)
that production is time-limited and of the essence (provide a clear timeline of the work to be done)
-Please respond to each question in the application below.
-Provide a budget for your project, with expenses and purposes clearly delineated. Be sure to list other sources of funding, if applicable.
-If there are critical supporting documents, please include them. Contact our Grants Manager to discuss your project before submitting an application.
Download the commercial grant application here.
The Background on Commercial Grants
The Greater Montana Foundation (GMF) has a special commercial broadcaster grant category for time-sensitive news and/or public affairs programming on issues of importance, including multi-part reports within regular news programs.
This category is designed to encourage and assist commercial broadcasters in providing meaningful and timely coverage of emerging and developing issues. It is not a replacement for grants that should be proposed during the regular annual GMF grant consideration process in the spring of each calendar year.
These grants are offered for time sensitive issues that could not have been foreseen for proposal during the regular annual grant consideration process. Proposals in this category may be made anytime, and expeditious consideration will be given on a case-by-case basis at the discretion of the GMF Board of Trustees.
The Greater Montana Foundation requires that all programs receiving funding be made available for use upon request by any Montana media outlets, schools and libraries.
