Awarded Grants

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

For the People Power News Radio Initiative, which aims to train a multigenerational cohort of community radio reporters to tell stories from their unique neighborhood perspectives on topics such as mutual aid, economic inequality and more.

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 teach filmmaking and reporting as a tool to magnify the voices of youth on various social, economic, racial, and health issues in Coatesville, PA.

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 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 promote healing and self-reliance in the BIPOC community by establishing a solar powered, eco-sustainable multimedia lab that teaches the 21st century skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts.

To create a digital magazine, Rev Arte, where the Latinx immigrant community can share their talents and perspective, reframing negative portrayals of the community and authoring their own stories. Additionally, to foster community leadership through the expansion of CCATE's media programming and the development of an internship program.