National Geographic Society’s The Big Questions aims to support innovative photography, short film, writing, data visualization and other storytelling proposals to help people consider some of the greatest questions of our time.  Proposals may investigate human origins, as well as look into the future of human/machine interaction and shifts in human consciousness, the physical, scientific, and philosophical world. The funders are interested in exploring the three following questions: 1) What does it mean to be human? 2) What are the boundaries of Earth, or more precisely, what are the limits to what we can understand? 3) What is the relationship between the human and natural worlds? OFR Contact: Chloe Taft Kang. Amount: $20,000 – $100,000. Deadline: 6/24/25.