Posts in 'Community-Centered Journalism'

$30,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Immigrant Voices
Description
To empower, educate, and inspire the Hispanic Community in the region by uplifting their stories and needs, in their native language, and by encouraging them to take action toward the manifestation of their dreams despite their current circumstances.

$56,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description
To support the Philly Movement Media Fellowship program for young, primarily Black and brown writers and communicators.

$100,000 - Awarded March 2022

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Immigrant Voices
Description
To create awareness of COVID vaccine safety and mitigate vaccine hesitancy through stories and feature articles, and virtual and live presentations, including question and answer sessions by collaborating diaspora physicians and medical personnel. The campaign will target Philadelphia and its five-county metropolitan area and engage the African and Caribbean immigrant communities through faith-based organizations by leveraging its decade-long relationships and social media outreach.

People's Media Fund believes that narratives shape people’s understanding of their world and their interactions with others and the institutions

$46,000 - Awarded July 2020

Focus areas
Youth Media
Representation in Media
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a series of online and youth-driven programming throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Youth Set The Stage will build a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, regularly engage youth media content creators and provide platforms to showcase and present the voices and current perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, creating an audiovisual capsule of the current moment. In the process of the year-long cross-collaborations, YSTS will build an accessible toolkit for instructors working with students remotely.

$75,000 - Awarded July 2021

Focus areas
Youth Media
Representation in Media
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

This one-year grant will support the ongoing building of a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, engage youth media content creators, provide platforms to showcase the voices and perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, and provide young media makers with professional development opportunities that will include training, mentoring and paid work experiences. This project will build upon the year-long Youth Set the Stage cross-collaboration begun in 2020 among nine youth media organizations across the city through the pioneering support of Independence Public Media Foundation’s Community Voices Fund.

$40,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

For the “Outing” project which will search for Native children through investigative and solutions-based journalism, bolstering demand for a national accounting of Indigenous youths who went missing while under official supervision at dozens of government- and church-run boarding schools, with a special emphasis on the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.

$50,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

To support and uplift residents of Philadelphia's Hunting Park community, a predominantly Latinx and African American neighborhood with one of the city's highest poverty rates, by engaging additional community members as contributors and editors for Impacto's Spanish-language publication.

$80,000 - Awarded August 2021

Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

To strengthen the news ecosystem in Delaware and increase voices and coverage of underrepresented communities, particularly BIPOC and low-income communities, by creating a pipeline of BIPOC journalists, identifying geographic and demographic news deserts, and building infrastructure to address news and information needs.

$20,000 - Awarded July 2020

Focus areas
Youth Media
Community-Centered Journalism
Description

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a five month pilot for Black and Brown youth using video, feature stories and podcasts to document and archive youth voices and experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic and the social uprisings in response to racist injustice and persistent state-sanctioned violence.

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