Posts in 'BIPOC Stories'

$30,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Media Training
Youth Media
Film
LGBTQIA+
Description
To support the "Sunkissed Media Project" to amplify the voices and experiences of BIPOC women community journalists, including the LGBTQIA+ and disabled community.

$15,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Description
To transform Tiny WPA’s underutilized storefront facade, which is situated along the Lancaster Avenue Commercial Corridor at 40th and Lancaster in the West Philadelphia Promise Zone, into a media platform for elevating the voices of its neighbors and Tiny WPA’s young adult Building Heroes around issues that are important to them.

$65,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
BIPOC Stories
Description
To amplify, document, and archive the voices of Indigenous artists, performers, knowledge-keepers, and change-makers.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2022

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Description
To support Power Street Theatre’s two digital media projects: WhatsApp Audio Adventure and Barbershop Poetry. These projects involve community storytelling, poetry and audio stories that will address the themes of cultural preservation, gentrification, immigration, racism, grief, and healing.

$60,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Media Training
Youth Media
BIPOC Stories
Description
To promote healing and self-reliance in the BIPOC community by establishing a solar powered, eco-sustainable multimedia lab that teaches the 21st century skills of communication, literacy, leadership, and problem solving through technology and the arts.

The Greater Philadelphia region is a hub for BIPOC-led grassroots media groups and projects with deep roots in the communities they serve. At the same

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