Awarded Grants

To launch a pilot podcast about guerilla tree planting, climate change, and community cohesion in Back Bottom, Philadelphia.

To enable filmmaker Eunice Levis to participate in the 2025-26 AFI DWW+ program for filmmakers in Los Angeles.

To support Sarah Krussen's film, SOFT, with finishing funds.

To support Rafael Bitanga's film, Bridging Our Stories, with finishing funds.

To support Eboni Zamani's series, A Song for Nia, with finishing funds.

In rapidly gentrifying North Philadelphia, two genius Black siblings, at risk of eviction, begin doing the coursework of local college students in exchange for cash. When one of their clients, a white woman, goes viral from an essay they wrote, the siblings are faced with a moral dilemma: allow their client to publicly use their voices, or be caught at the center of a cheating scandal.

To support the dissemination plans of Research for Action's digital archive and podcast that centers and amplifies the voices of Black educators in Philadelphia and Detroit.

To provide an intensive media training program for Philadelphia high school students in order to amplify the voices of younger community members on key public policy issues.

To increase community programming of RadioCATA and to continue to make RadioCATA a space that the Latiine community seeks out as a source of trustworthy information, education, and entertainment.

To support Prison Health News, a platform that expands access to health information to people who are incarcerated and amplifies personal narratives around prison abolition, health justice, and tools for surviving prison.