Awarded Grants

This one-year grant will support the ongoing building of a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, engage youth media content creators, provide platforms to showcase the voices and perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, and provide young media makers with professional development opportunities that will include training, mentoring and paid work experiences. This project will build upon the year-long Youth Set the Stage cross-collaboration begun in 2020 among nine youth media organizations across the city through the pioneering support of Independence Public Media Foundation’s Community Voices Fund.

This two-year operating grant will support the expansion of BPA's school, summer, and workforce digital filmmaking programs including the launch of “Media Futures,” a paid professional development & leadership program for BIPOC youth seeking careers in film and media.

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 one-year grant will support the Philly Movement Media Fellowship program for young, primarily Black and brown writers and communicators.

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

This one-year grant will support community engagement and storytelling with and accessibility to AAI's Digital Broadcast Studio.

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 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 grant will support the expansion of First Person Art's team in order to increase fundraising and sustainability efforts, social justice work, and better leverage their archive.

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.