Posts in 'Community-Centered Journalism'

To amplify local voices in the City of Chester in Delaware County, PA, and fostering individual agency and collective social action.

This three-year grant will support Chalkbeat's efforts to merge with the Philadelphia Public School Notebook, a 25-year-old media organization founded by parents and concerned citizens, and create Chalkbeat Philadelphia, a new education news nonprofit.

To complete the merger between Chalkbeat and the Notebook.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

To support Votebeat, a pop-up nonprofit newsroom covering local election administration and voting in eight states, created by Chalkbeat.

To establish a better direct connection with students in Philadelphia through journalism, Chalkbeat will collaborate with the district-wide online student newspaper, the Bullhorn, and jumpstart a reporting series on how gun violence is impacting the city's youth.

Nominated to receive a general operating grant.

COVID-19 Emergency Fund to 2019 Grantees.

To empower Germantown residents to tell their own stories digitally through a series of trainings focused on audio production, podcasting, show development and streaming.

The 2021 Community Voices grant will support the distribution of a free community journal, published in Arabic and English, that amplifies culture from the Southwest Asia and North Africa region, with writers predominantly from the region. Distributing a physical newspaper across Philadelphia (and now Allentown) will put Arabic in public space to be seen and felt.