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$70,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support the Colored Girls Museum’s programs while strengthening the museum’s capacity, and stewardship of its historic community home, as a sanctuary for art, memory, and belonging.

$50,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Immigrant Voices
Archives
Description

To amplify the stories of Latine and Asian American residents in Norris Square, Chinatown, and Cambodia Town, by providing media training, sharing community stories, and developing Augmented and Virtual Reality projects that prevent cultural erasure and preserve the memories and histories of Philadelphia’s diverse communities.

$40,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Immigrant Voices
Archives
Description

To amplify the voices of artists and marginalized communities through a retrospective video documenting Taller Puertorriqueño's "We Will Not Hide" work, a yearlong series of events, panels, festivals, and exhibits offering a critical examination and alternative views of the United States’ 250th anniversary.

$100,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Media Training
Description
To support the general operations of SAADA, which documents, preserves, and shares stories that represent South Asian Americans' unique and diverse experiences.

$40,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support the Paul Robeson House's ongoing archival development, digitization, and community programming and collaborative public engagement activities that expand access to and care for community-based archival collections.

$25,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
LGBTQIA+
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Description
For continued support of Drag Arts Oral History Project, an archive of oral histories of Philadelphia area drag artists, and activating the existing archive through new multimedia-focused efforts.

$40,000 - Awarded July 2026

Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
Archives
Description

To support Actívate's work documenting cultural and organizing histories of underrepresented, multigenerational BIPOC artists/cultural workers and movement groups in the Greater Philadelphia region.

$500,000 - Awarded July 2025

Focus areas
Media Training
Media Center
Community Radio
Film
Archives
Youth Media
Description
To support the general operations of Scribe Video Center an important media arts center in the Philadelphia region that encourages the production and distribution of media that represent diverse communities including novice media makers, experienced filmmakers, community groups and youth.

$12,000 - Awarded July 2025

Focus areas
Archives
Immigrant Voices
LGBTQIA+
Movement Media
Description
To support the People’s Media Record convening the People's Media Camp.

$15,000 - Awarded June 2025

Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Description
To cover the funding gap SAADA has experienced after the loss of federal grants.

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