Awarded Grants

To provide internet access, digital devices, and technology teaching and support services to low-income South Philadelphia residents who are impacted by environmental racism.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the distribution of a free community journal, published in Arabic and English, that amplifies culture from the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, with writers predominantly from the region. Distributing a physical newspaper across Philadelphia (and now Allentown) will put Arabic in public space to be seen and felt.

To strengthen the news ecosystem in Delaware and increase voices and coverage of underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC and low-income communities, by creating a pipeline of BIPOC journalists, identifying geographic and demographic news deserts, and building infrastructure to address news and information needs.

To support film projects led by promising local Philadelphia-area student filmmakers in higher education.

To increase the visibility and understanding of the diverse Asian American communities in Philadelphia and their strengths, challenges and histories through a year-long feature series of journalistic work about post-COVID reopening, sourced from grassroots networks and community leaders. The work will be published in the English, Chinese and Vietnamese platforms of New Mainstream Media, with cross-publishing opportunities in English language media.

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 improve digital literacy and help narrow the digital divide among immigrants in Philadelphia who are English Language Learners, by combining English language instruction with digital literacy and workforce development.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support "One Magenta Afternoon." The short film honors the lifeblood of queer people of color, their artistic genius (even in the mundane), to uplift hoodoo/rootwork, and the spiritual power of jazz, and to de- and re-/construct concepts around “Black family.”

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 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.