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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.

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support ongoing production of COVID Stories – A Digital Memoir From The Pandemic, a community storytelling project that documents this critical time in our history.

This two-year grant will support the expansion of First Person Art's team in order to increase fundraising and sustainability efforts, social justice work, and better leverage their archive.

The 2021 Community Voices Fund will support the creation of a community-led multimedia archive that will highlight arts/culture work for social change by Latinx communities in Philadelphia.