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Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This two-year grant will support, deepen, and evolve Taller's Eugenio M. de Hostos archive's usability and expand the multimedia programming and output of the Hostos Archive, focusing on social justice and advocacy through community access to self-authored stories. Taller will: promote and continue development of the archive's digital content, programs and exhibitions; produce media in creative and innovative formats; and share produced media in the community and outside the community with new audiences.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

This two-year grant supports the continued development and digitization of the Eugenio Maria de Hostos Archive. This funding will also help broaden the archive's public accessibility, welcoming audiences to engage with the collection and inform programming.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

This two-year grant will support the upgrade and reinstallation of the museum's main permanent exhibition, Audacious Freedom: African Americans in Philadelphia 1776–1876. Responding to students' educational needs and expressed visitor interests, the exhibit's “Conversations” gallery will be reconfigured to connect the story of 19thcentury activism to the present day, covering the lives and legacies of African Americans in Philadelphia and the surrounding region through the 20th and 21st centuries.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a partnership between Philadelphia Young Playwrights and the Philadelphia Photo Arts Center to facilitate a three-pronged digital storytelling program which combines monologues and photos of personal narratives of Philly youth, detailing their COVID-19 and civil unrest experiences, to create digital short stories.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

This two-year grant will underwrite the professional digitalization, centralization and cataloging of FPA's archived stories, allowing them to utilize archived material to expand their programming, demonstrate the archive's value to people across the region and beyond.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.