Awarded Grants
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A two-year grant to The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) ($250,000), for general operating support and the promotion and archiving of the stories of Black girls and women. TCGM's mission is to be a public ritual for the protection, praise, and grace of the ordinary extraordinary Black girl.
The 2021 film grant will support "We are Born of 3." Thirteen-year-old Jade is navigating becoming a teenager and pretending to be her grandmother while helping to care for her great grandmother with dementia.
A two-year grant for general operating support.
The 2021 film grant will support "The Unknown Tales of Lewis and Mary Latimer." This dramatic limited series looks at post Civil War America when African Americans exploded onto the world front and center with their technical innovations, industry, sense of community service, and dedication to democratic values. The story of Lewis Latimer, inventor, designer, engineer, poet, musician, and family man, will serve as a microcosm of Black America.
The 2021 grant will support "The Ghouls Next Door," a horror media-analysis podcast that dives into the horror genre, exploring the unique and raw way society and culture influence the genre. The Ghouls Next Door reviews horror media and discuss the history and psychology behind our fears.
For “The Gaslit Streets,” a podcast to center community voices and creative talent in Camden, NJ.
The 2021 film grant will support "Bravo, Burkina." A Burkinabé boy flees his village and lends his weaving talents to an old craftsman in Bologna, Italy. Despite his escape, he is unable to forget the warmth of Burkina Faso. Pursued by memories, he travels through time in hopes of regaining all he has lost.
A two-year grant to empower local community leadership to improve digital outcomes and to advance digital equity by engaging in federal and state broadband policymaking.
The 2021 film grant will support "With My Own Hands" which centers the theme of memory. When a young girl suddenly becomes ill at a family party, she must retrace her memories to uncover the true cause of her mysterious sickness.
Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Prison Journalism Project, Delaware Public Media, WHYY News, WLVT News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.