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To support a film about the life of Black feminist writer, filmmaker, and activist Toni Cade Bambara.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a time capsule book and website of essays, photographs, poems and other creative formats documenting the Uprising (Against White Supremacy, in Defense of Black Lives) in Philadelphia from May-June 2020. The project will collage intergenerational reflections of Black Philadelphians with an intersectional emphasis and attunement to the ongoing labor of “how we get free.”

House of Lux will use the 2020 Community Voices grant to create audio and video projects about Black memory and tradition in North Philadelphia. These videos and audio will be published and made available for public viewing.

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. Recipient of 2021 Community Voices Fund grant.

The Heaux History Project (HHP) will use the 2020 Community Voices grant to gather the stories and histories of Black and Brown sex workers and how they are surviving through COVID-19. HHP will collect oral interviews, writings, and artistic representations, with a long term-goal to create a documentary and archival project.

A two-year grant to The Colored Girls Museum (TCGM) ($250,000), for general operating support and the promotion and archiving of the stories of Black girls and women. TCGM's mission is to be a public ritual for the protection, praise, and grace of the ordinary extraordinary Black girl.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support an annual youth program to train black girls and womxn to use VR/AR to create immersive technology storytelling of their experiences. In addition it will provide support for a student-led project for inclusion in their virtual museum, which is set to launch next summer. The program participants will be compensated.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.