Awarded Grants

This three-year grant supports Free Press' collaboration with Media Mobilizing Project and Media, Inequality, Change Center to organize journalists, newsrooms and community media allies to bring them into closer relationships with residents who want to take an active role in shaping local news. Free Press will also produce guides and workshops for constituents, support community-newsroom collaboration, and develop strategies to disincentivize the dominant “if it bleeds, it leads” newsroom mentality.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This three-year grant will support Chalkbeat's efforts to merge with the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a 25-year-old media organization founded by parents and concerned citizens, and create Chalkbeat Philadelphia, a new education news nonprofit.

This three-year grant supports Free Press' collaboration with Media Mobilizing Project and Media, Inequality, Change Center to organize journalists, newsrooms and community media allies to bring them into closer relationships with residents who want to take an active role in shaping local news. Free Press will also produce guides and workshops for constituents, support community-newsroom collaboration, and develop strategies to disincentivize the dominant “if it bleeds, it leads” newsroom mentality.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Community College of Philadelphia is launching a first of its kind Community Journal on Social and Economic Inclusion with research done in teams between community members and academics.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This one-year grant supports continued capacity building, in order to help Resolve build an organizational structure that is value-aligned, a team that is mission-driven, and governance policies and practices that center equity, collaboration, and transparency.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.