Awarded Grants

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

To support a youth radio project led by teen girls about the criminal justice system.

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

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

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 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.

To support a youth-led podcast to talk about activism, politics, and the life of teens that will air on & in partnership with G-Town Radio.

To continue to build upon the Youth Set the Stage cross-collaboration between nine youth media organizations across the city, which began in 2020.

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

To establish a better direct connection with students in Philadelphia through journalism, Chalkbeat will collaborate with the district-wide online student newspaper, the Bullhorn, and jumpstart a reporting series on how gun violence is impacting the city’s youth.