Awarded Grants

To continue the production of Audio Olney, a podcast amplifying the diverse community voices of the Olney neighborhood and counter the negativity typically portrayed by traditional media outlets.

To create two mini-documentaries highlighting mobile crisis units and the commutation process, and to craft narratives of people who are serving death by incarceration.

To increase access and usability of Taller Puertorriqueño’s Eugenio María de Hostos Archives and establish connections between island and Puerto Rican diaspora audiences through public programs and multimedia productions.

To support Obscured Journalism Initiative in continuing the development of a capacity-building plan for the podcast's sustainability.

To support the general operations of South Asian Digital Archive, which focuses on the South Asian American community through oral history programs, archival collecting fellowships and educational workshops.

To support the Spanish-language community newspaper Impacto to increase community civic engagement and enhance resident voices on issues of local importance.

To support organizations interested in developing new community internet initiatives in the Philadelphia region.

Supplemental funding for general operations to support Love Now Media’s use of community storytelling and media to reimagine and redesign a future that includes liberation for historically oppressed communities.

Supplemental funding for general operations to support Love Now Media’s use of community storytelling and media to reimagine and redesign a future that includes liberation for historically oppressed communities.

Supplemental funding to support the ongoing operations and growth of the Philly Community Wireless public mesh wifi network in Norris Square, as well as supporting the expansion of networks across North Philadelphia, especially into the neighboring areas of Kensington, Fairhill, and Nicetown-Tioga.