Awarded Grants

To improve digital literacy and help narrow the digital divide among immigrants in Philadelphia who are English Language Learners, by combining English language instruction with digital literacy and workforce development.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the expansion of the Credible Messenger Reporting Project, which was piloted by the 2020 Community Voices Fund. This project trains, compensates and empowers people impacted by gun violence to produce and distribute news reports addressing its root causes, their lived experience, and possible solutions from the community perspective, with guidance from professional journalists.

To support a mini documentary from the perspective of youth leaders as GRP embarks on a community-centered, youth-driven name change and strategic planning process.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support "LOVE WEST" as it amplifies the voices of young Black girls in West Philly, who are impacted by systemic racism and sexism in their daily lives, through the lens of basketball.

To amplify voices of low-income, Black, and immigrant communities in Norristown and to bring local talent to a national stage.

To encourage intergenerational storytelling that amplifies the refugee and immigrant Cambodian & Southeast Asian American community, as well as to archive the community's history and immigration stories. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices grant.

To support and uplift residents of Philadelphia's Hunting Park community, a predominantly Latinx and African American neighborhood with one of the city's highest poverty rates, by engaging additional community members as contributors and editors for Impacto's Spanish-language publication.

For the “Outing” project which will search for Native children through investigative and solutions-based journalism, bolstering demand for a national accounting of Indigenous youths who went missing while under official supervision at dozens of government- and church-run boarding schools, with a special emphasis on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

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 hire a Digital Navigator who will provide individualized, as well as group instruction, and language specific assistance to close the digital divide among Philadelphia's African and Caribbean immigrant and refugee communities. 2021 Digital Equity Fund recipient.