Posts in 'Policing and Community Safety'

$100,000 - Awarded July 2023

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the Credible Messenger Reporting Project, which trains, compensates, and provides guidance from professional journalists to people impacted by gun violence to produce and distribute multimedia journalism, informed by their lived experience, that addresses the root causes of gun violence and possible solutions.

$80,000 - Awarded June 2023

Focus areas
Media Policy
Policing and Community Safety
Media Reform
Description
To support the MIC Center's research on broadband for all policies.

$45,000 - Awarded December 2022

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Youth Media
Description
To create significantly more accessible musical recording labs where youth who have been impacted by violence or incarceration can learn audio production while developing career skills and expressing their emotions in supportive spaces.

$100,000 - Awarded December 2022

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Description
To amplify the voices of people directly impacted by gun violence and mass incarceration in order to show that wealth inequality and racism are at the root of both.

$60,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Archives
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To record, archive, and amplify the stories of everyday sex workers of color and sex workers of color leaders navigating life through and after COVID-19.

$15,000 - Awarded October 2022

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Description
For continued support of the Freedom Constellations multi-media project

$15,000 - Awarded October 2022

Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support "Voices of the Unheard," a transformative justice film project that collects and shares stories that center incarcerated people.

$20,000 - Awarded November 2022

Focus areas
Film
Policing and Community Safety
Description
To support the film "Looking Forward to Reentry" about the justice system. The film will highlight legislation, government officials, agencies, and programs, and individuals working to reform the justice system

$1,000,000 - Awarded July 2022

Focus areas
Media Policy
Policing and Community Safety
Media Reform
Description
To support the work of the MIC Center as part of the Shift the Narrative Coalition, which aims to change the narratives in local media around violence, crime, and safety, and put the power of storytelling in the hands of the community.

$1,000,000 - Awarded June 2022

Focus areas
Policing and Community Safety
Media Reform
Description
To support the work of Free Press as part of the Shift the Narrative Coalition, which aims to change the narratives in local media around violence, crime, and safety, and put the power of storytelling in the hands of the community.

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