Several grants have made GIJC 2011 possible. The sponsors have contributed to the low fee and to scholarships for colleagues who otherwise would not be able to participate.

Thanks to:

• Open Society Foundations
  
• Fritt Ord
  
• Black Sea Trust
  
  
• Erste Stiftung
  
  
• Dart Center
  
• Swiss Investigative Network.
  

These projects support the GIJC 2011 by grants to participants:

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  
  
• Organised Crime & Corruption Reporting Project
  
• Pair, a support structure for investigative reporting in West Africa
  
  
• Scoop, supporting investigative reporting in the Balkans, East Europe, the Caucasus and Russia.
  
• Norwegian Union of Journalists
• 
  Stiftensel for en Kritisk og Underøkende Presse
• Democracy Grants program of U.S. Embassy in Ukraine
• International Renaissance Foundation, Ukraine
• U-Media project of Internews Network supported by USAID