Awarded Grants

The 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant will support the creation of more accessible musical recording labs where youth who have been impacted by violence or incarceration can learn audio production while developing career skills and expressing their emotions in supportive spaces.

To expand and deepen WURD Radio's multimedia coverage and conversations around environmental racism and its direct impact on Philadelphia's Black community with a lens towards action, solutions and empowerment.

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.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support a youth radio project led by teen girls about the criminal justice system.

While cell phone videos allow millions of Americans to see police brutality in a way that was previously not possible, the abuse and degradation of people in prisons remains largely out of public view. The 2021 Community Voices grant will enable the Prison Society to evolve and deepen their highly impactful work supporting, mobilizing, and amplifying the voices of incarcerated people from the Philadelphia region and their families, and in so doing advance decarceration.

The 2021 Digital Equity Fund grant will support the investment in digital community organizing to advocate, host training, and help hundreds of low to moderate-income and limited digital proficient African/Caribbean immigrant families obtain affordable and stable internet services and digital skills.

To prepare underrepresented young people to succeed as tech and innovation leaders through project-based learning and mentorship, resources, and support networks in the tech and innovation space.

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.

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.