Awarded Grants

To improve digital literacy and help narrow the digital divide among immigrants in Philadelphia who are English Language Learners, by combining English language instruction with digital literacy and workforce development.

To help Love Now Media hire a consultant for developing an evaluation framework, in order to understand and communicate impact to the public, to funders, and to future clients. Additionally, this grant will support LNM's business development support to identify a strategy for increasing event attendance, sponsorships, and building relationships to support growth.

To support the work of the Movement Alliance Project (MAP) as part of the Shift the Narrative Coalition, which aims to change the narratives in local media around violence, crime, and safety, and put the power of storytelling in the hands of the community.

To support the work of Free Press as part of the Shift the Narrative Coalition, which aims to change the narratives in local media around violence, crime, and safety, and put the power of storytelling in the hands of the community.

To support a documentary and other media-making for the Best Medical Practices for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Intersex Patients program, highlighting their stories and experiences, and honing in on what medical professionals should know and how they can more adequately and appropriately offer medical care.

To support a short film about an undocumented immigrant in Philadelphia starts to fall for a roommate she's never met -- forming a connection that will test the limits of her romantic imagination.

To provide free basic and focused digital literacy in for impact on the neediest seniors, such as the homeless, deep poverty communities, differently abled homebound, and LGBTQ elderly.

To empower Spanish-speaking women through digital literacy initiatives using informative, animated comics for tv and social media, as well as comics printed for newspapers and magazines.

To expand and deepen WURD Radio's multimedia coverage and conversations around environmental racism and its direct impact on Philadelphia’s Black community with a lens towards action, solutions and empowerment.

To support the expansion of cineSPEAK's team, the development and implementation of  public programming, and the broadening of cineSPEAK’s audience and readership.