Awarded Grants

To support a mini documentary from the perspective of youth leaders as GRP embarks on a community-centered, youth-driven name change and strategic planning process.

To provide adult education practitioners and administrators on-demand access to learning material that will support professional development, digital literacy skills and digital equity advocacy. Recipient of the 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant.

To amplify voices of low-income, Black, and immigrant communities in Norristown and to bring local talent to a national stage.

To support and uplift residents of Philadelphia's Hunting Park community, a predominantly Latinx and African American neighborhood with one of the city's highest poverty rates, by engaging additional community members as contributors and editors for Impacto's Spanish-language publication.

With the 2021 Digital Equity grant, Madre Tierra will uplift and support 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 build the capacity of Black, brown and poor-people's organizations to advocate for the broadband and digital inclusion resources they need from the federal infrastructure and other stimulus, to build the ability of those groups to prevent those federal dollars from funding racist, oppressive technology and surveillance, and to support those groups to organize to win the federal resource distribution they determine is just on these issues. Recipient of the 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant.

To create a weekly morning talk show, highlighting the accomplishments of and current events relevant to the Southwest Asian & North African community, with a focus on LGBTQIA+ individuals.

For the “Outing” project which will search for Native children through investigative and solutions-based journalism, bolstering demand for a national accounting of Indigenous youths who went missing while under official supervision at dozens of government- and church-run boarding schools, with a special emphasis on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the creation of 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 co-create a Virtual Reality (VR) project with Latinx and Cambodian community leaders and amplify the stories of their communities through the “Places of Power” documentary and web-based app. The project invites viewers to experience disinvested neighborhoods in Philadelphia anew, as a tapestry of knowledge, healing, and civic leadership. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices grant.