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2025 Video Grant Winners Announced

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2025 Eyes On Your Mission Video Grant Winners Announced!

Video Grant Winners Announced for 2025 EOYM

2025 EOYM FREE VIDEO
GRANT SCHEDULE

  • Application process opened: May 16, 2025
  • Application process closed: July 18, 2025
  • Finalists interviews begin: August 18, 2025
  • Winners announced: September 10, 2025
  • On-site video/photo shoots: October 2025
    Video editing: November 2025
  • Final deliverables: December 2025

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Five Nonprofits to Receive Pro Bono Video Production

Announcing the 2025 Eyes On Your Mission Grant Recipients

Five Nonprofits to Receive Pro Bono Video Production

Dear Friends and Fans,

We are thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 Eyes On Your Mission (EOYM) Video Production Grants! This year, after reviewing 101 inspiring applications, we have selected three new nonprofits to receive pro bono video production services:

Armour Dance Theater
Filming in Miami

Real Escape From The Sex Trade
Filming in Seattle

Guiding Eyes For The Blind
Filming in New York

In addition to welcoming this new cohort, EOYM is also recommitting to past partners whose stories and collaborations continue to inspire us. These organizations have proven to be incredible stewards of their videos, and we are honored to deepen our relationship with them:

Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council
Filming in Wisconsin

Girl Scouts of Tropical Florida
Participating from South Florida

Girl Scouts of Central Maryland
Participating from Maryland

Girl Scouts of Jersey Shore
Participating from New Jersey

We’re especially proud of our ongoing work with the Girl Scouts councils, where EOYM not only provides video production support but also donates our Filmmaking For Good digital curriculum. This means Girl Scouts can earn Digital Media Production badges while contributing their own user-generated content, creating a truly collaborative final video. (It’s been a labor of love and worth every ounce of blood, sweat, and tears!)

For the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council, our ties run deep as well. Jessica's father, Bill Kizorek, has a special fondness for this Native American organization in Wisconsin, making this partnership particularly meaningful for the family and EOYM.

Introducing the EOYM Nonprofit Video Production Masterclass Series

We are also excited to expand our reach through the EOYM Masterclass Series, a five-session virtual training program designed to help nonprofits learn how to create impactful videos in partnership with local producers. This year, we’re piloting the program exclusively with the 101 applicants from our grant pool. The Masterclass is free and part of our mission to equip organizations everywhere with the tools to tell their own powerful stories. More on that soon.

Plan Ahead: Apply Next Year

If your nonprofit missed out this year, we strongly encourage you to apply in 2026. EOYM remains committed to scaling our grant program and Masterclass to serve more organizations every year.

Thank you for being part of our journey. Together, we are empowering nonprofits to harness the power of video to share their stories, inspire change, and move missions forward.

Warm regards,
Jessica Kizorek, Executive Director
Mike Firmature, President
Ellen Bristol, Vice-President
Miriam “Mimi” King, Secretary
Lang Dobson, Communications

Eyes On Your Mission
www.EyesOnYourMission.org

Updated 2025–2026 Masterclass Zoom Dates
Subject to change:

🗓️Deadline to register > Tuesday, October 7, 2025
🗓️ZOOM > October 14, 2025 > 7:00–8:30pm EST
🗓️ZOOM > November 11, 2025 > 7:00–8:30pm EST
🗓️ZOOM > December 9, 2025 > 7:00–8:30pm EST
🗓️ZOOM > January 20, 2026 > 7:00–8:30pm EST
🗓️ZOOM > February 17, 2026 > 7:00–8:30pm EST
🗓️Final video due: March 1, 2026 @ 11:59pm EST

Applying for future EOYM video production grants

Are you a dynamic nonprofit that deserves a short documentary film to powerfully tell your organizational story to a larger audience? Consider applying for a future EOYM video production grant!

Each grant winning nonprofit is awarded $20,000 in pro bono professional video production services to shoot video content for one day, anywhere in the world, then create a 3-5 minute emotionally compelling documentary film to help with communications and fundraising.

Any NGO globally is eligible and invited to apply. While we produce projects all around the globe, many of our grantees are sourced from South Florida as our nonprofit Eyes On Your Mission and production partner Two Parrot Productions are both proudly headquartered within the Miami community.

While our first pro bono project evolved in 2005, it wasn’t until 2014 that the Eyes On Your Mission 501(c)(3) created a formal award application process. This grant is international, multi-lingual and considers a diverse range of causes and organizations. Our team has travelled to over 100 countries on all 7 continents tellings stories ranging from mental health in Pakistani refugee camps to family planning on Burkino Fasso’s fair trade farms.

We encourage previous grant applicants to apply again with fresh updated ideas. Timing is everything, so sometimes a nonprofit can apply several times before being chosen. The primary creative collective that donates their videography and photography services has been working as a team for over 10 years.

Pro bono

Watch Jessica Kizorek explain EOYM judging matrix

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APPLICATION CRITERIA

WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR IN APPLICANTS

Join Eyes On Your Mission
REGISTERED 501c3

The nonprofit must be a registered 501c3 organization, have a fiscal agent, or be an international non-governmental association

ACTIVE SOCIAL

Must maintain an active social media presence

PROBLEM SOLVER

Demonstrate creative problem-solving for a modern social issue.

GROWTH

Demonstrate an eagerness to evolve and grow

Two Parrot & Grantees Provisions

What is Provided?

What Two Parrot Provides
  • A highly sophisticated approach to video pre-production
  • Two Parrot and the GRANTEE will develop the storyboard, shot-list, and reverse-engineered interview questions
  • Video production (HD videotaping and photography at a single location anywhere in the world). 
  • Pre-production, consulting, planning
  • Post-production, editing
  • International airfare, visas, and vaccinations for crew
  • Hotel/Accommodations for crew
  • All video strategy sessions
  • Full virtual workspace (DropBox, Evernote, TeamViewer)
  • Final deliverable: 3-minute video
What the Grantees Provide
  • Local liaison
  • Local transportation
  • Local translation or interpreter services
  • Location scouting
  • A minimum of 40 staff-hours from a designated point person at Grantee to shepherd the project from beginning to end
  • Any travel costs (air, hotel) related to staff of Grantee

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