Awarded Grants

To empower Spanish-speaking women through digital literacy initiatives using informative, animated comics for tv and social media, as well as comics printed for newspapers and magazines.

To expand and deepen WURD Radio's multimedia coverage and conversations around environmental racism and its direct impact on Philadelphia’s Black community with a lens towards action, solutions and empowerment.

To support the expansion of cineSPEAK's team, the development and implementation of  public programming, and the broadening of cineSPEAK’s audience and readership.

To address inequities in coverage of the Black community in South Jersey by supporting more Black media makers in the creation of news and information.

For the "Your Empowered Sexuality" podcast for adults, to reflect on their early experiences with sexuality and bodies in order to heal and better support young people in their development.

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 increase the visibility and understanding of the diverse Asian American communities in Philadelphia and their strengths, challenges and histories through a yearlong feature series of journalistic work about post-COVID reopening which would be sourced from grassroots networks and community leaders.

To encourage intergenerational storytelling to amplify the refugee and immigrant Cambodian & Southeast Asian American community, as well as to archive the community’s history and immigration story.

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 support, mobilize, and amplify the voices of incarcerated people from the Philadelphia region and their families, and in so doing, advance decarceration.