Awarded Grants

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This three-year grant provides Leeway the opportunity to make small, community-centered grants to artists at the intersection of media and social justice, and to bring much-needed capital to marginalized communities.

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.

This two-year grant will underwrite the professional digitalization, centralization and cataloging of FPA's archived stories, allowing them to utilize archived material to expand their programming, demonstrate the archive's value to people across the region and beyond.

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.

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.

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.