Awarded Grants

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

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 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.

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.

To build community-owned/operated internet infrastructures that will democratize access, promote digital literacy, and fight digital inequity with free, net-neutral broadband service in North Philadelphia. This is a two-year grant. Recipient of the 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant.

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.

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. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.

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 support a visual storytelling project which will capture the toll of bail on individuals, communities, and families; highlight the joy that comes with freedom; and mobilize directly impacted communities and others in the campaign to end cash bail.

For the “Philadelphia Archival Creators Fellowship” which will support three fellows in Philadelphia to document and share the stories of three distinct South Asian American populations: Bhutanese refugees in South Philadelphia, working-class Bangladeshi immigrants in West Philadelphia, and second and third generation Malayalee (from Kerala, India) Christian community members in Northeast Philadelphia. Recipient of the 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.