Awarded Grants

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Through this three-year grant, in collaboration with Free Press and Media, Inequality, Change Center, Movement Alliance Project (MAP) will convene and connect community-based organizations and local leaders in an educational and strategic visioning process that will lead to action-taking to reshape narratives around safety, trauma and violence. In this work, MAP and their community partners will center, support, and help cohere people impacted by violence and the criminal-justice system.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This one-year planning grant will allow WLVT to explore launching a channel that is robust, local and community-centered, through implementing a survey and analysis of content creators in the region (primarily video content), including the barriers that keep media makers from creating longer form content.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Providing matching dollars to eight local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Chalkbeat Philadelphia, WHYY News, WITF News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.

With this three-year grant, Media, Inequality, and Change (MIC) Center will lead two integrated, multi-phase research projects focused broadly on Philadelphia's media ecosystem and community networks, while convening researchers, practitioners and activists to collaborate on outlining a vision for remaking media in ways that reflect communities' information needs. Together, with Free Press and Movement Alliance Project, MIC aims to transform prevailing media narratives and elevate complex stories about trauma, safety, crime and criminal justice in Philadelphia.

Providing matching dollars to eight local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Chalkbeat Philadelphia, WHYY News, WITF News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.