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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
LenfestInst_May2021grants.png PHOTO: Heather Khalifa/Philadelphia Inquirer (May 20, 2021) The Lenfest Institute ... today announced $1.3 million in new grants to The Philadelphia Inquirer to support initiatives that will ... Team, or I-Team, to more than double its staff in recent years. It is now among the largest sources of investigative ...

$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
Related coverage: Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund will help Philadelphia news outlets   by Marc Narducci for the Philadelphia Inquirer Via The Lenfest Institute for ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.8 Million in Film and Journalism Grants to 30 Projects and Organizations

IPMF Film Grants Dec 2020
Wednesday, December 16, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, December 16, 2020 – The Independence Public ... million, three-year operating support grant to Resolve Philadelphia, a nonprofit dedicated to improving local ... community-centered media and media making across Greater Philadelphia. The Foundation’s goals reflect an expansive ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2.6 Million in Media-Making and Digital Equity Grants to 33 Projects and Organizations

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, December 15, 2021 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) ... Highlights of these grants include: A two-year grant to Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) ($200,000), ... of subjects who have resided in one location for 15 years or longer, The project will culminate into an ...

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

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
News release via Independence Public Media Foundation PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 2023—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) ... support underrepresented communities across the Greater Philadelphia region build their power by documenting, ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grant Renewals

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Via IPMF's website PHILADELPHIA, July 12, 2023—The Independence Public Media ... Equity Project)— $75,000 Paul Robeson House / West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance — $70,000 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival (PAAFF) — ...

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 ... partners for advancing the foundation’s vision for the Philadelphia region as a hotbed for creative media makers. ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, August 2, 2022—The Independence Public Media ... BIPOC-led media organizations and projects in the Philadelphia region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 ... time to reflect on what we’ve learned in our first three years as an organization, and hone our vision for media ...

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

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Monday, November 25, 2024
Press release via Leeway Foundation PHILADELPHIA, PA — Leeway Foundation announces $62,500 in ... nonconforming artists and cultural producers in Greater Philadelphia with the 2024 Art and Change Grant (ACG). For ... and Change Grant has supported artists who are, as beloved Philadelphia queer artist and activist Paul Robeson said, ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $1.75 Million in Grants for COVID-19 Community Storytelling and Information Projects

Thursday, July 30, 2020
PHILADELPHIA, July 30, 2020 – The Independence Public Media ... networks and community-led media across the Greater Philadelphia region. “IPMF launched the Community Voices ... collaborations, including: People’s Alliance, Reclaim Philadelphia, Free Press, and Movement Alliance Project will ...
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IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
PHILADELPHIA, November 21, 2024—The Independence Public ... women and transgender and gender nonconforming people in Philadelphia jails to share their stories and build power ... engagement, and networking needs of Afghan refugees in the Philadelphia region. “We’re excited to continue ...

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

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Via the Poynter Institute   | By Kristen Hare The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and LNP ... for Journalism, The Nicholas B. Ottaway Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, Poor Richard’s Charitable Trust ... in Harrisburg, PublicSource in Pittsburgh and WHYY in Philadelphia. WITF president and CEO Kathleen Pavelko in the ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $2 Million in Grants to Media Making Organizations

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
IMPFlogo.png PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2021 – The Independence Public Media ... Foundation (IPMF) announces another major investment in Philadelphia’s media making community. Thirteen grants ... and storytelling among diverse communities across Philadelphia,” said Nuala Cabral, IPMF program officer. ...
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Lenfest Institute for Journalism Announces Local News Sustainability Grants

The Lenfest Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Read more in the Philadelphia Inquirer: Lenfest Institute awards half a ... million in grants to promote sustainable local journalism PHILADELPHIA (Jan. 30, 2019) — The Lenfest Institute for ... local news and information organizations, and the Philadelphia News Ecosystem Collaboration Grants for planning ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $6.1 Million in Grants for 2024

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Thursday, December 12, 2024
... support digital equity initiatives throughout the city of Philadelphia. In addition to these grants, IPMF is partnering ... with the Samuel S. Fels Fund and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to support the Regional ...
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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
Press release PHILADELPHIA, April 17, 2025—The Independence Public Media ... (IPMF) announces $500,000 in grants to support Greater Philadelphia's emerging and professional independent ...

Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
... of awards is divided into two parts: $1 million to the  Philadelphia Inquirer , the  Philadelphia Daily News , and Philly.com, which make up  the nonprofit institute owned-and-operated Philadelphia Media Network , and (with support from the ...
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Molly de Aguiar wonders why philanthropy isn’t ‘placing bigger bets’

Molly de Aguiar
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
... here. ) The grantees are: African American Museum of Philadelphia, $300,000 Digital Literacy Alliance, $500,000 ... that reflected the diversity of communities across the Philadelphia region. In 2017, IPM decided to relinquish its ... and nontraditional media organizations and initiatives for years, I can tell you that there are surprisingly few funders ...
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The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
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... filmmaker, community journalist, and researcher based in Philadelphia. She is a cofounder of Presente Media Collective ... of Communication at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. Crittenden has been involved with community ... economic, racial, and social justice. In more recent years he’s helped design and lead a winning campaigns to ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... working to create equitable work through Love Now Media, a Philadelphia based media company that uplifts the voices of ... producer existed on the fringes of news. In fact, for many years, my work as a storyteller was a response to the ... way through my cultural lens as a Black woman? Through years of study, an advanced degree in Media and ...

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