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.
This two-year grant will provide commissioning funds that enable WHYY to expand its work with freelancers and reporters from racially and ethnically diverse media outlets who will produce programming for WHYY News. These efforts will be further supported by cultural competency training for WHYY staff and community engagement events that provide opportunities for conversations around divisive issues and pressing local and national concerns.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support the disParities Media Project, a pilot media-making project that exposes the structural inequities affecting families with children in Norristown and Pottstown, where over 50% of the residents are Black and Brown. In partnership with ACLAMO and The Urban League, Children First will amplify the stories and lived experiences of these communities in search of justice and change.
The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a platform for Philadelphia-area youth reporters to share their experiences and stories—ultimately preserving the community's memory of the coronavirus and future health events as they unfold.