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Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members ... Ahmed Moor , Palestinian-American writer Hannah Sassaman , executive director of People's Tech Project Lauren Stebbins , ... communications director for the office of Philadelphia City Council President Kenyatta Johnson Zainab Sultan . ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

In Pennsylvania, three newsrooms are teaming up to cover state government

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
... a Pew report found  a 35 percent drop  in the number of newspaper statehouse reporters. In Pennsylvania that year, ... laboratories of democracy,” said Pittsburgh Post-Gazette executive editor David Shribman in a press release. Spotlight PA will also work with another new project announced Tuesday:  PA Post. That project is a ...

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Press release Nearly $6 million in new grant commitments will support innovation, growth, and ... Stacy Palmer, who helped found CoP in 1988 and will become executive director of the new nonprofit organization. “We are boldly ...
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Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in project-based funding

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Monday, November 25, 2024
... of Mount Airy, Media Arts, $2,500 CJ Jasen of University City, Performance, $2,500 Ella-Gabriel Mason of West ... review panel consisted of cultural organizer and inaugural Executive Director of the Forman Arts Initiative (FAI), Adjoa Jones de ...
18Nov2020

The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
... , Co-Researcher, Germantown Info Hub Bryan Mercer , Executive Director, Movement Alliance Project This session ... Business and an MFA in Media Communication Arts from the City College of New York where she focused on Writing, Producing, and ...

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

Code for America
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
... America will strengthen the business models and practices of local technology Brigades chapters in seven U.S. cities ... and subject to a natural waning of engagement. This new investment will give local tech Brigade leaders training ... in the digital age,” said Lilian Coral, Knight’s director of national strategy and technology innovation. ...

Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
... Institute again made news by awarding $2 million in new  grants  to support innovation in local journalism. ... experimentation and entrepreneurship. Jim Friedlich, executive director of the Institute, said in a statement, “We were ...
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The Lenfest Institute announces $1.3 million in grants to support The Philadelphia Inquirer’s community-focused journalism

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
Thursday, May 20, 2021
... Institute for Journalism today announced $1.3 million in new grants to The Philadelphia Inquirer to support initiatives that will enhance coverage of Philadelphia’s most pressing issues, with a particular ... serve and reflect a wider array of the citizens of our city and region,” said David Boardman, chair of the Lenfest ...

$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
... and be of service,” said Roxann Stafford, managing director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation ... will serve as the backbone for a coordinated city-wide, crisis response plan that provides vital news and ... the Knight-Lenfest Fund in September 2019 that enabled new product development at The Philadelphia Inquirer ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $6.1 Million in Grants for 2024

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
... grants for the year. The foundation has awarded a total of $6.1 million in grants for 2024 in support of community ... — to support digital equity initiatives throughout the city of Philadelphia. In addition to these grants, IPMF is ... Fund and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to support the Regional Pooled Wellness Fund. The ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation announces grants totaling $4.3 million

Media Mobilizing Project
Thursday, December 19, 2019
(December 18, 2019, Philadelphia) The Board of Directors of Independence Public Media of Philadelphia announced a new round of grants today, including $3.6 million to six ... movement building, and community-led storytelling to bring new information and narratives to light,” said the ...
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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
... the incredible creativity and thoughtfulness in the flood of proposals we received that we increased the fund from ... systemic barriers to timely, quality information have left city residents in the dark during a public health emergency. ... toolkit for instructors working with students remotely. New grantees also include the Heaux History Project, which ...
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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
This new report commissioned by the Wyncote Foundation profiles ... that honors and celebrates cultural heritage and diversity of voice. Culture, Heritage, and Place: How Media Amplifies ...

Lenfest Institute for Journalism Announces Local News Sustainability Grants

The Lenfest Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
... Institute for Journalism today announced 13 winners of its latest grant programs, aimed at fulfilling its mission ... News Business Model Challenge for projects that explore new business models for sustainable local news and ... the key challenge facing local news: finding and nurturing new revenues and sustainable business models. The projects ...
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Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... a Philadelphia based media company that uplifts the voices of those advocating for justice, wellness, and equity. I ... elder woman. For me, documenting the story revealed a new kind of power. In a community where so many news stories ... and hardship, this story not only showed audiences a new and inspiring narrative about young Black boys in North ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

Independence Public Media Foundation
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
... individuals from the tri-state area submitted a wide range of media making proposals to the Community Voices Fund. Of those who applied, the funding partners prioritized voices ... so justice is possible," said Roxann Stafford, managing director of the Knight-Lenfest Local News Transformation ...

Molly de Aguiar wonders why philanthropy isn’t ‘placing bigger bets’

Molly de Aguiar
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
... caught up with Molly de Aguiar, the president of Independence Public Media, last week — after the foundation announced its first set of grants and a new partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund. The ... better. Generocity: Independence Public Media is a fairly new foundation — tell us a little more about its genesis, ...
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Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... protests sweep across the country in the middle of a pandemic that has exposed structural inequalities, ... caused by systemic oppression and reimagine and create a new normal that is better for the world, one where equality ... roots and wings, ancestors and the importance of imagining new (and more just) systems, I am excited about these ...

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 ... foundation’s mission to build and strengthen networks of people who are creating and sharing information, ideas, ... 2021, IPMF continued to explore ways to support the growth of its key nonprofit partners in a manner that allows each ...

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