Posts in 'Policing and Community Safety'

$100,000 - Awarded July 2025

Focus areas
Media Reform
Community-Centered Journalism
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support Free Press' Philadelphia Safer Journalism Project and the creation of the Philly Latine Media Collaborative.

$100,000 - Awarded June 2025

Focus areas
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To create and implement comprehensive distribution and publicity plans for media projects amplifying the voices of incarcerated people and people impacted by a lack of mental health infrastructure.

$25,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support Prison Health News, a platform that expands access to health information to people who are incarcerated and amplifies personal narratives around prison abolition, health justice, and tools for surviving prison.

$27,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Media Training
Description
To support the Writing Heals project, which trains family members of people lost to homicide to write and reframe the narratives of their loved ones' lives and call for social change.

$15,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Media Training
Youth Media
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the Restorative Justice Filmmaking Program, where young people impacted by the juvenile justice system will be trained to use filmmaking to share their stories.

$30,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To produce a documentary in partnership with Black youth and adults impacted by the carceral system that deconstructs the myth of individual culpability and highlights how to holistically address cycles of criminalization in Philadelphia.

$20,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Movement Media
Representation in Media
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support "Let Them Only See Us," a multimedia initiative documenting the work of Black women fighting for education justice and Black workers' rights.

$25,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
LGBTQIA+
Policing and Community Safety
Media Training
Description
To support "We Free Us," a storytelling project for currently and formally incarcerated women and transgender and gender nonconforming people in Philadelphia jails to share their stories and build power towards large-scale decarceration.

$35,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Immigrant Voices
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the archiving and documenting of La La Lil Jidar's organizing of community experiences to shift harmful narratives around Palestine and foster healing.

$40,000 - Awarded October 2024

Focus areas
Movement Media
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To teach aspiring organizers how to shift prevailing narratives around policing and mass incarceration through workshops, abolitionist media production training, and the development and distribution of the multimodal Abolition Journal.

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