The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a information equity and community-driven storytelling project that will work in partnership with local journalists, media-makers, and residents in Camden to deepen community-newsroom relationships, equip residents with tools and platforms to share their experiences, and develop new strategies that address structural information inequities worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic.
To produce and disseminate media coverage around mass incarceration and COVID, to train journalists to cover this topic with nuance, to support emerging journalists who seek to tell these stories.
To launch TRACE, an ongoing reporting series that will track and inform how the Philadelphia region responds to the pandemic, economic crisis and structural racism. Grant support from a coalition of foundations (Lenfest Institute, Scattergood Foundation, Samuel S. Fels Fund, HealthSpark Foundation, and more).
Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Prison Journalism Project, Delaware Public Media, WHYY News, WLVT News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
Providing matching dollars to seven local newsrooms—Hidden City Philadelphia, Next City, PA Post, Philadelphia Public School Notebook, Spotlight PA, Tarbell, WHYY, PBS 39 / WLVT—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
Providing matching dollars to eight local newsrooms—NextCity, Hidden City Philadelphia, Spotlight PA, Chalkbeat Philadelphia, WHYY News, WITF News—in support of this year-end giving campaign.
PlanPhilly provides in-depth reporting on Philadelphia neighborhoods with a focus on urban design & planning, transportation & development.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a pilot project with PlanPhilly and WHYY Media Labs that will create a model for area newsrooms to integrate anti-racist journalism practices into local public school journalism curriculum and local newsrooms and amplify youth voice while strengthening and diversifying a talent pipeline that for too long been dominated by white students from elite institutions.
This two-year grant will provide continued programmatic support for initiatives that center source diversity and recruitment, community curation, trust-building, collaboration, digital integration, access, and civic dialogue.