Awarded Grants

To build community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia’s Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.

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.

To cultivate a space for Philadelphia organizations focusing on youth media to build community, share resources, learn from each other, identify common areas of growth and collaborate towards solutions.

For general operating support of WHGE-LP, Delaware's first and only Black-owned radio station.

To provide adult education practitioners and administrators on-demand access to learning material that will support professional development, digital literacy skills and digital equity advocacy.

To record, archive, and amplify the stories of everyday sex workers of color and sex workers of color leaders navigating life through and after COVID-19.

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 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.

For the "Connections!" ("¡Conéctate!") intergenerational digital literacy program, focused on connecting immigrant families and individuals with limited English proficiency with the necessary digital tools to access essential services, employment opportunities, and other community resources.

To provide access to cellphone and consecutive online access to housing insecure sex workers in Philadelphia, expanding access to social services, medical care, support networks, above ground jobs, and, lastly but very importantly, safer and more autonomous ways of accessing work in the underground economy.