Awarded Grants

The 2021 Community Voices Fund grant will support Amistad Law Project's efforts to amplify the voices of people directly impacted by gun violence and mass incarceration in order to show that wealth inequality and racism are at the root of both.

To provide free basic and focused digital literacy for impact on the neediest seniors, such as the homeless, deep poverty communities, differently abled homebound, and LGBTQIA+ elderly.

In support of 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.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the expansion of the Credible Messenger Reporting Project, which was piloted by the 2020 Community Voices Fund. This project trains, compensates and empowers people impacted by gun violence to produce and distribute news reports addressing its root causes, their lived experience, and possible solutions from the community perspective, with guidance from professional journalists.

To hire a Digital Navigator who will provide 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. 2021 Digital Equity Fund recipient.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support "Smile4Kime" as it fosters alternative imaginings, community conversations, and actions around Black women's mental health. This film impact campaign will include screenings, community-led conversations, and an educational/community toolkit.

To foster the development of community youth organizers through storytelling and media creation.

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

Through the 2021 Community Voices grant, One Art Community Center will promote healing and self-reliance in the BIPOC community by establishing a solar powered, eco-sustainable multimedia lab that teaches the skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts.

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. Recipient of the 2021 Community Voices grant.