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Please provide your organization's name and parent company name (if applicable), or your name (if you are applying as a freelancer or sole trader)

Please briefly describe your organization or, if you are applying as a freelancer or sole trader, your current occupation. Tell us more about your team (team members description, organizational structure of the project team) and/or, if you are applying as a freelancer or sole trader, your career history (900 character limit)

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If it is a collaborative project, please specify your partners' names. Note - collaborative projects must adhere to the specific details outlined in the Terms and Conditions. We advise that you review these carefully.

Please provide supporting evidence that one or more of the project applicants has a track record of combating misinformation. When providing evidence, please refer to third-party organizations such as the International Fact-Checking Network, media coverage about your fact-checking work, or participation in initiatives to counter misinformation endorsed by authoritative third-parties. (1,500 character limit)

Please provide background on the expertise of any epidemiologists, immunologists or other public health experts that are involved in this project. (1,500 character limit)

What is the type of your organization?

If you selected N/A, please explain

Street Address

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City

Country (Note: Please review the Terms & Conditions to ensure your country is eligible.)

When was your organization founded?

How many full time employees does your organization have?

What was your organization's annual total income (in USD) for 2019? Please note this should include revenue generated as well donations, philanthropy support etc.

What is the first (given) name of this project's Point of Contact?

What is the last (family) name of this project's Point of Contact?

What is their job title?

What is their phone number?

What is their contact email?

What is your website URL?

If you have any, what are your social media handles? (Twitter, Facebook, Others)

Are you, or any member of your organization, currently employed by or working on behalf of a government organization, in any capacity?

If yes, please provide some details on the nature of your or your organization's involvement.

Does any government organization hold any level of ownership, control or voting rights within your organization?

What is the title of your project? (120 character limit)

Please provide a brief overview of the project. (900 character limit)

Please describe your project in more detail, including a description of the current stage of the project and the specific outcome you want to achieve (4,200 character limit)

Please provide an explanation of how this project intends to reach audiences that are typically underserved by fact checks or disproportionately affected by misinformation. (2,400 character limit)

What is the amount (in USD) you are seeking to receive from this Open Fund? (Up to $1,000,000.00 - Please carefully review the funding requirements in the Terms and Conditions)

How is your proposed approach different from how organizations tackled misinformation in the past? Feel free to mention successful or not so successful examples and be sure to include what differentiates your project from the rest. (2,400 character limit)

Budget Description (Please note you have to share a spreadsheet as well)

Total Overall Budget (Please enter the total budget of the project including the self funded costs. Please note that GNI will fund up to 80% of Total Overall Budget and Google will fund up to $1,000,000.00. Other restrictions apply - please carefully review the funding requirements in the Terms and Conditions. Special discretion on the total project cap may be considered by the jury depending on the scale and impact of a very large collaborative effort).

Payment of non-editorial personnel (for their work on the project)

Editorial costs (on staff or freelance employees)

Engineering and development/maintenance costs

Purchase / licensing of software

Purchase of any equipment and hardware.

Marketing costs (limited to 20% of funding request)

Other costs

If other costs, please explain

What are the key indicators you will use to track progress towards the outcome you described previously? (3,000 character limit)

Please provide a timeline. Note that projects are expected to start as soon as possible and complete within 12 months from being selected. (3,000 character limit)

Please provide an impact assessment framework that explains how your project will assess the effect of the fact checks / corrective content you will publish. Please be specific about (a) how you will asses whether fact checks clarify misconceptions that audiences were actually grappling with rather than re-affirming something they already knew (b) how you plan to affect and measure the reach of the related misinformation (c) how the impact will different to what would have been possible without funding. (4,800 character limit)

Please send 1) a short presentation of 10 slides or fewer describing your project and 2) a detailed project budget to vcmfund@google.com. Please include the App ID you will receive after submitting the application in the subject line. You can review the FAQ for tips on the presentation. We reserve the right to not review applications who do not submit these materials. Check the box below to acknowledge that these will be sent.

If you are selected for funding, are you interested in further opportunities?

There could be opportunities to meet with other applicants, share experiences or work in collaboration on future projects. Is this something you would be interested in?

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