Awarded Grants

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.

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 new community computer lab that will expand digital access and equity in Kensington.

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 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.

To provide free basic and focused digital literacy for impact on the neediest seniors, such as the homeless, deep poverty communities, differently abled homebound, and LGBTQIA+ elderly.

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.