Awarded Grants

To support and uplift residents of Philadelphia's Hunting Park community, a predominantly Latinx and African American neighborhood with one of the city's highest poverty rates, by engaging additional community members as contributors and editors for Impacto's Spanish-language publication.

For the “Outing” project which will search for Native children through investigative and solutions-based journalism, bolstering demand for a national accounting of Indigenous youths who went missing while under official supervision at dozens of government- and church-run boarding schools, with a special emphasis on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

To increase the visibility and understanding of the diverse Asian American communities in Philadelphia and their strengths, challenges and histories through a year-long feature series of journalistic work about post-COVID reopening, sourced from grassroots networks and community leaders. The work will be published in the English, Chinese and Vietnamese platforms of New Mainstream Media, with cross-publishing opportunities in English language media.

To hire a Digital Navigator who will provide individualized, as well as group instruction, and language specific assistance to close the digital divide among Philadelphia's African and Caribbean immigrant and refugee communities. 2021 Digital Equity Fund recipient.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the transformation of 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.

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. Recipient of the 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.

To support a visual storytelling project which will capture the toll of bail on individuals, communities, and families; highlight the joy that comes with freedom; and mobilize directly impacted communities and others in the campaign to end cash bail.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support We Are the Seeds as they amplify, document, and archive the voices of Indigenous artists, performers, knowledge-keepers, and change-makers through their "From Here, With a View," podcast.

Through the 2021 Community Voices grant, One Art Community Center will promote healing and self-reliance in the BIPOC community by establishing a solar powered, eco-sustainable multimedia lab that teaches the skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts.

Through the 2021 Digital Equity grant, the Equity Project will provide Kensington's majority Black and brown community with access to state of art technology and broadband internet, the skill-building and knowledge needed to navigate digital content and technology, and the media grassroots organizing tools to empower community members, youth and old, to be leaders and advocates for their families and community.