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Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... nonprofit governance, public relations, and philanthropy. They will join IPMF’s seven other board members in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources for media and media-making owned and led by communities ...
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Media/JournalismSocial Justice
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Leadership, Culture and Community

The Chronicle of Philanthropy Unveils Ambitious Growth Plan To Put National Spotlight On Social Sector, Become Nonprofit

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
... the growing and diverse social sector, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (CoP) today announced it plans to become an ... by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., a private, for-profit company. “The Chronicle of Philanthropy is ... John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation ($100,000), Conrad N. Hilton Foundation ($75,000), and The ...
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Molly de Aguiar wonders why philanthropy isn’t ‘placing bigger bets’

Molly de Aguiar
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
... Pitch Local Philly), $307,500 The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, $1,300,000 PhillyCAM, $150,000 Scribe Video ... Association Coalition), $250,000 Taller Puertorriqueño, $100,000 Temple University, Klein College of Media & ... its grantsmaking processes, and about what she believes philanthropy can do better. Generocity: Independence Public ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $1.75 Million in Grants for COVID-19 Community Storytelling and Information Projects

Thursday, July 30, 2020
... projects which will document, share, and preserve people’s experiences and stories during COVID-19, as well as ... current moment. YSTS will also build an accessible toolkit for instructors working with students remotely. New grantees ... also include the Heaux History Project, which will gather the stories and histories of Black and Brown sex ...
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IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Fund allows us to conduct a listening scan of the region’s media ecosystem, but more importantly, the fund shifts ... share power with communities traditionally excluded from philanthropy while also being impacted by harmful and racist ... violence through community-led storytelling, archives for building community power, community-centered news and ...

Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... and reimagine and create a new normal that is better for the world, one where equality and justice are the norm. Both media and philanthropy play important roles in supporting movements ... Over Competition As a foundation, we want to support network building and collaboration, so we were pleased to ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
... be part of a vibrant media ecosystem. It is critical for us to listen to our community partners as they determine ... with deep relationships and expertise in the fund’s focus areas reviewed all the proposals and made final ... communities that have traditionally been excluded from philanthropy while also being impacted by harmful and racist ...
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$2.5 million Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund to provide support for coronavirus news and information needs

Coronavirus Testing by Tim Tai - Philadelphia Inquirer
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... will help Philadelphia news outlets   by Marc Narducci for the Philadelphia Inquirer Via The Lenfest Institute for ... (IPMF), The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and The Knight-Lenfest ... and institutions. Partners will collaborate to gather, produce, and disseminate localized, urgent, and ...

Code for America to strengthen local tech Brigade chapters with support from Knight Foundation

Code for America
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
... St. Paul and Boulder build sustainable business models for civic technology. ... since 2010. Code for America’s mission is to build a network of cities, citizens, community groups and startups ... in response to the pandemic by developing more than 100 COVID-19-specific projects and 307 total projects that ...

Lenfest Institute offering $1 million in grants

Monday, June 5, 2017
... | by Jeff Gammage , Staff Writer The Lenfest Institute for Journalism will award up to $1 million in grants to drive ... get off the ground, and “Amplification,” up to $100,000 to help existing endeavors expand. Those named as ... H.F. “Gerry” Lenfest, who donated Philadelphia Media Network — owner of The Inquirer, Daily News and Philly.com ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, April 17, 2025
... $500,000 in grants to support Greater Philadelphia039;s emerging and professional independent filmmakers. The ... have the opportunity to screen their projects at IPMF’s annual Fall Film Screening to gain more public interest and following.

Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
... financial challenges, the  Lenfest Institute for Journalism , which is  dedicated to supporting ... nonprofit institute owned-and-operated Philadelphia Media Network , and (with support from the Knight Foundation) $1 ... the Innovation Grant program, which will follow a venture philanthropy format, emphasizing experimentation and ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $6.1 Million in Grants for 2024

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
... Foundation (IPMF) announces $697,453 in its final grants for the year. The foundation has awarded a total of $6.1 ... to these grants, IPMF is partnering with the Samuel S. Fels Fund and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and ... matching dollars to four newsrooms as part of its annual participation in the NewsMatch campaign which raises ...
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Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narrative

Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies Community Narrative
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05/2021
... profiles eight place-based organizations that use media for cultural expression and connection with local funding support. These organizations gather and amplify stories, histories, languages, and arts ...

Independence Public Media Foundation announces grants totaling $4.3 million

Media Mobilizing Project
Thursday, December 19, 2019
... million to six organizations representing key partners for advancing the foundation’s vision for the Philadelphia region as a hotbed for creative ... innovative media projects, were nominated by community members to receive $25,000 grants each, totaling $425,000. ...
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18Nov2020

The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
... secret weapon – media and media-making – as a force for social justice: Get some insight into why media is the ... and get on the fast-track to achieving their foundation’s goals. Learn about the different entry points into ... training to dozens of high school students and community members in the Philadelphia and Pittsburgh areas. Currently, ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... and inclusion initiatives increase along with demands for newsrooms to dismantle and repair long standing racist ... they all worked together to paint and renovate the woman’s apartment. As a short documentary, none of us had ever seen ... For example, if I, as a Black woman, walk into a room with 100 white men talking, my presence will likely impact what ...

Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

Leeway Foundation (mark)
Monday, November 25, 2024
... Philadelphia with the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG). For over two decades, the Art and Change Grant has supported ... said, “the gatekeepers of truth [and] civilization’s radical voice.” This year’s recipients are no different ... visual arts, and multidisciplinary forms. Chosen from over 100 applications, this year’s grantees are developing work ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... (IPMF) announces $2.6 million in its final round of grants for 2021. The grants focused support for community-centered ... $9.4 million in grants in 2021 to advance the foundation’s mission to build and strengthen networks of people who are ... the Germantown Info Hub into a Community Wire Service—a network of hyperlocal bureaus meeting neighborhood ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... Foundation (IPMF) announces grants totaling $8.9 million for community-centered, BIPOC-led media organizations and ... “These grants represent the majority of IPMF’s grantmaking for the year, while the foundation takes some ... organize journalists, researchers, newsrooms and community members in an effort to reshape narratives around policing, ...

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