Awarded Grants

This two-year general operating support grant will assist with scaling up SIFT Media's efforts to amplify, advocate, and nurture the work of both their members and women of color filmmakers in the region.

This two-year general operating grant will go toward producing and distributing empathy-centered stories that prioritize BIPOC communities, cultural practices, and values.

This two-year grant will provide program support for the Village's media and justice-based initiatives for teens and young adults to be housed in their new Civic Power Media Studio in North Philly.

This one-year grant will support an assessment of 2,500 residents to understand the number of households currently without internet or relying on unstable, low bandwidth options, as a way to benchmark the city's progress towards closing the digital divide.

This two-year general operating grant will assist Philadelphia Latino Film Festival in making key strategic investments in growing its year-round organizational and staff capacity, expanding programming, and stabilizing operational infrastructures for sustainable long-term growth.

In support of the Philanthropy Network's 2021 strategic planning.

To support the COVID Prevention + Response Fund, a community-led effort to invest in neighborhood-based solutions to urgent needs related to COVID-19. This pooled fund is hosted by the Philanthropy Network of Greater Philadelphia in partnership with Philly Counts. Fifteen community advisors, living and working in communities disproportionately impacted by COVID, are leading the design and implementation of the fund, including making decisions about grant funding.

The 2020 film grant will support "Epistles of Love, The Gospels According to Edgar & Clara," a work-in-progress based on a series of letters exchanged between Edgar Wilson and Clara Moses-Wilson from 1936 to 1939. Through their exchange, we bear witness to the complex intersections of race, health, economics, and the impact that WWI, the Spanish Flu Pandemic, the Great Depression, and the Great Migration had on the lives, love, and marriage of African Americans.

The 2020 film grant will support "Before Black Lives Matter and the Civil Rights Movement, there was the Haitian Revolution! Ulrick." The film features Master Artist Ulrick Jean-Pierre, a twoubadou (troubadour) and guardian of history who has been tirelessly depicting Haiti's story on canvas as the first country to lead a successful slave revolt and the first free black nation. Ulrick's paintings also depict the deep historical connections between Haiti and the United States and especially New Orleans.

The 2020 film grant will support "One Way," a narrative short film about Eli, a 17-year old Black boy navigating his identity at the intersection of street life, bike culture, and a family conflict with deep roots.