Podcast Fund for Emerging Voices

Seeking podcast and radio projects from independent storytellers sharing art, culture, and lived experience.

The Podcast Fund for Emerging Voices supports independent creators using audio to tell original stories across art, culture, and lived experience. We champion writers, artists, performers, and cultural observers outside big media systems who bring distinct points of view, collaborative spirit, and living voices to the world.

medium:film-storytelling

Eligibility

We support podcast and radio projects with a unique voice, clear creative purpose, and the power to connect people across cultures. Projects should center storytelling, art, creation, interviews, oral tradition, or collaborative communication.
To qualify for this fund, projects must meet the following eligibility requirements:
- Be a podcast, radio show, audio documentary, interview series, or experimental audio storytelling project.
- Be led by an emerging or independent creator without major institutional media backing.
- Present a distinct point of view that is original, specific, and non-generic.
- Use storytelling to connect people through art, creativity, culture, collaboration, or lived experience.
- Avoid projects primarily driven by gossip, partisan politics, sensationalism, or celebrity commentary.
- Demonstrate a feasible plan for producing and releasing episodes.
- Bonus points for projects that document artists, creators, community builders, unconventional lives, or legends from underrepresented cultures.

Projects (16)

8 submitted · 8 curated

Project	Status	Raised
She's A King! Podcast	curated	$112
Tune In Show	curated	$269,534
Hip-Hop Africa: Building Pan-African Hip-Hop Infrastructure	curated	$111,237
CULTURAL CREATORS RADIO	curated	$5,818
The new album Peace Of Mind by Marie Chain	curated	$41,998
Unbox Your World Podcast: Fuelling ideas for a brighter future	curated	$0
The International Artists Project Documentary	curated	$563
Blockwisely Blockchain News and Education	curated	$30,967
TUNER	submitted	$87,139
Oasis of Rhythm: An Inward Journey Through Sound	submitted	$1,770
Akuya	submitted	$234
seks	submitted	$454
Element of Chawaza	submitted	$1,356
Worth Learning: Conversations for the Age of AI	submitted	$16,900
Aio: Indigenous Wisdom for the Future	submitted	$4,305
Overset Literary Magazine: The Greatest Stories from East Africa	submitted	$34