Posts in 'Movement Media'

To launch a community survey of Philadelphia residents about what safety would look and feel like in their neighborhoods, and the types of reinvestment Philadelphians believe will make their communities safe.

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.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a collaboration between 215 People's Alliance, Reclaim Philadelphia, Free Press, and Movement Alliance Project to strengthen and expand information networks that were created in response to the COVID-19 crisis. Using innovative outreach and organizing tactics to meet information needs, the group's project will lift up stories of disconnected and disaffected Philadelphians, and support Black dignity, where systemic barriers to timely, quality information have left city residents in the dark during a public health emergency.

For Philadelphia Latino Film Festival's general operating support.

This two-year general operating grant will assist Philadelphia Latino Film Festival in making key strategic investments in growing its year-round organizational and staff capacity, expanding programming, and stabilizing operational infrastructures for sustainable long-term growth.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the “Johnson Park” project an exploration of the relationship between public art and power. A response to the uprisings and demands for removal of racist monuments throughout the nation, the project addresses how communities create memorials through a democratic and participatory process. Using audio-visual media to re-commemorate a public space in Camden that once depicted a racist frieze, Unmemorial will include a series of media projects that would create new and more ethical modes of commemoration that includes public critique and conversation.

The 2021 Community Voices Fund will support the creation of a community-led multimedia archive that will highlight arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.

Through the 2021 Community Voices Grant, Manifestando Tus Sueños will utilize various communication tools (digital, visual, written and audio) to advocate for, empower, inspire and educate those who wish to manifest their dreams past their current realities. Through Spanish-language content, Manifestando Tus Sueños will motivate their audience to evolve, create and live up to their maximum potential.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support building community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia's Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.

The 2020 Community Voices Fund grant will support Big Picture Alliance's Via Lux Teen Media program, a youth-led collective that produces films about important stories shaping the lives of young people and engages the public through screenings, broadcasts, social media, and an annual film fest.