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To establish a better direct connection with students in Philadelphia through journalism, Chalkbeat will collaborate with the district-wide online student newspaper, the Bullhorn, and jumpstart a reporting series on how gun violence is impacting the city's youth.
The 2021 Community Voices Fund will support the creation of a community-led multimedia archive that will highlight arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.
To support a documentary and other media-making for the Best Medical Practices for Transgender, Non-Binary, and Intersex Patients program, highlighting their stories and experiences, and honing in on what medical professionals should know and how they can more adequately and appropriately offer medical care. Recipient of the 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.
To cultivate a space for Philadelphia organizations focusing on youth media to build community, share resources, learn from each other, identify common areas of growth and collaborate towards solutions.
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 teach filmmaking and reporting as a tool to magnify the voices of youth on various social, economic, racial, and health issues in Coatesville, PA.
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 support a film about the life of Black feminist writer, filmmaker, and activist Toni Cade Bambara.
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.