Awarded Grants

To transform Tiny WPA’s underutilized storefront facade, which is situated along the Lancaster Avenue Commercial Corridor at 40th and Lancaster in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, into a media platform for elevating the voices of its neighbors and Tiny WPA’s young adult Building Heroes around issues that are important to them.

To promote healing and self-reliance in the BIPOC community by establishing a solar powered, eco-sustainable multimedia lab that teaches the 21st century skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts.

For the “Philadelphia Archival Creators Fellowship” which will support three fellows in Philadelphia to document and share the stories of three distinct South Asian American populations: Bhutanese refugees in South Philadelphia, working-class Bangladeshi immigrants in West Philadelphia, and second and third generation Malayalee (from Kerala, India) Christian community members in Northeast Philadelphia.

To document the lived experiences, hopes, concerns, needs, and overall cultural perspectives of representatives from the Philadelphia drag and queer arts community.

For continued support with strengthening the news ecosystem in Delaware and increasing voices and coverage of underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC and low-income communities, by creating a pipeline of BIPOC journalists, identifying geographic and demographic news deserts, and building infrastructure to address news and information needs.

To create awareness of COVID vaccine safety and mitigate vaccine hesitancy through stories and feature articles, and virtual and live presentations, including question and answer sessions by collaborating diaspora physicians and medical personnel. The campaign will target Philadelphia and its five-county metropolitan area and engage the African and Caribbean immigrant communities through faith-based organizations by leveraging its decade-long relationships and social media outreach.

To provide continuing support for a community computer lab in support of digital access and equity in Kensington.

To create a multimedia room for community members to produce arts and culture reportage focused on Southwest Asian and North African (SWANA) communities in the Philadelphia area.

For signal improvement planning and community programming at RadioCATA.

To support the Philly Movement Media Fellowship program for young, primarily Black and brown writers and communicators.