Awarded Grants

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

To prepare underrepresented young people to succeed as tech and innovation leaders through project-based learning and mentorship, resources, and support networks in the tech and innovation space.

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.

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 support 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.

To create a community-owned multimedia archive that highlights arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.

To provide access to state-of-the-art digital broadcasting technology and to support community storytelling.

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

To invest in professional digital community organizing to advocate, host training, and help hundreds of low to moderate-income and limited digital proficient African/Caribbean immigrant families obtain affordable and stable internet services and digital skills.

To deliver a 4-week intergenerational storytelling project with West Philadelphia and North Philadelphia Youth [RENEWAL].