Awarded Grants

This two-year grant will support the upgrade and reinstallation of the museum's main permanent exhibition, Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776–1876. Responding to students' educational needs and expressed visitor interests, the exhibit's “Conversations” gallery will be reconfigured to connect the story of 19thcentury activism to the present day, covering the lives and legacies of African Americans in Philadelphia and the surrounding region through the 20th and 21st centuries.

This two-year funder collaboration between Lenfest and IPMF will further these efforts by supporting cultural competency training for Inquirer staff as well as professional development, entrepreneurial skills, and creative opportunities for entry-level, mid-level and senior managers of color throughout the region. Alongside these concrete efforts, this collaboration will provide flexible funding for research, business assistance, and convening of Philadelphia-area multi-cultural media.

The grant will also help fund strategic planning for Resolve Philadelphia, a journalism project built on equity, collaboration among multiple media properties, and the elevation of community voices and solutions.

This three-year grant supports organizational capacity building that will position Scribe to build its staff, broaden its programming portfolio, and enlarge its re-granting program for area media makers.

This two-year grant will enable DLA to provide grants to immigrant-serving organizations for targeted digital literacy training, and to deepen its work with funded organizations and projects by developing a learning and support network.

IPMF is establishing a fund in partnership with Bread & Roses to support grassroots media and media making across the region.

Building on a successful inaugural Good Pitch Local–Philadelphia program in 2018, this two-year grant will support two subsequent rounds of Good Pitch Local Philadelphia, with the addition of a re-granting program to fund filmmakers and to provide focused facilitation of networking and collaborations among participants.

This two-year grant will support The Village's neighborhood-based media advocacy work through two initiatives: the Juvenile Justice Media Fellowship, and the Civic Power Studio's Media Justice Lab. Through amplifying the voices of local experts—those most affected by systems of injustice and misrepresentation—these initiatives work to reshape narratives and dispel myths, bringing often unheard voices to seats of power and driving positive change for the community.

Building on a successful inaugural Good Pitch Local–Philadelphia program in 2018, this two-year grant will support two subsequent rounds of Good Pitch Local Philadelphia, with the addition of a re-granting program to fund filmmakers and to provide focused facilitation of networking and collaborations among participants.

This two-year grant will enable SEAMAAC to increase media training in SE Philadelphia, helping its constituencies tell and share their stories. In so doing, the “Way Forward Project” works to counter xenophobia and misunderstanding by building empathy, and by bridging and humanizing divides through the power of personal storytelling.

This two-year grant will strengthen the community-centered journalism projects in Germantown, in which residents are helping to create news coverage of issues important to their neighborhoods. Funding is designed to foster long-term sustainability and continuity through community staff positions, advisory groups, and the hiring of program alumni.