Awarded Grants

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a platform for Philadelphia-area youth reporters to share their experiences and stories—ultimately preserving the community's memory of the coronavirus and future health events as they unfold.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support “Report from the Future” a project to convene artists, designers, and community members to ask, “What does a Philadelphia look like that's designed for me?” Facilitated and curated by an “Afrofuturist-in-Residence” at The Village, the resulting multimedia responses will serve as reference points, learning aids, and lodestars for policymakers and stakeholders working to rebuild Philadelphia in the wake of COVID-19 and local and national uprisings for racial justice.

House of Lux will use the 2020 Community Voices grant to create audio and video projects about Black memory and tradition in North Philadelphia. These videos and audio will be published and made available for public viewing.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a series of online and youth-driven programming throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Youth Set The Stage will build a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, regularly engage youth media content creators and provide platforms to showcase and present the voices and current perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, creating an audiovisual capsule of the current moment. In the process of the year-long cross-collaborations, YSTS will build an accessible toolkit for instructors working with students remotely.

The 2020 Community Voices grant supports 2Puntos' collaboration with Philatinos Media to produce twelve stories about how the work, dreams, and goals of Philadelphia's Latinx community have been impacted by COVID-19. These stories will highlight how the community survives the challenges of COVID-19 from its own experience and Latino culture.

Amistad Law Project (ALP) will use the 2020 Community Voices grant to amplify the voices of people in communities impacted by mass incarceration and policing. In response to the uprising, the project will highlight and promote the voices of directly impacted people in the work to create alternatives to policing and reimagine the institutions and practices that lead to safer communities. ALP will train community members to use media and media-making to tell their stories of safety and alternatives to policing such as unarmed first responders trained in de-escalation techniques.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the expansion of the “Hometown Heroes” project into a three-part editorial series that includes jazz profiles, resources for artists, and opportunities for local artists to address issues like COVID-19 and civil unrest.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a partnership between Philadelphia Young Playwrights and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center to facilitate a three-pronged digital storytelling program which combines monologues and photos of personal narratives of Philly youth, detailing their COVID-19 and civil unrest experiences, to create digital short stories.

The 2020 Community Voices grant supports 2Puntos' collaboration with Philatinos Media to produce twelve stories about how the work, dreams, and goals of Philadelphia's Latinx community have been impacted by COVID-19. These stories will highlight how the community survives the challenges of COVID-19 from its own experience and Latino culture.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the production of a collection of youth stories called “Voices from the Quarantine”. The book will contain more than 30 chapters of student writing about topics such as their experiences during COVID-19 and reflections on the racial justice movements occurring in Philadelphia.