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Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members bring a wide ... in support of the foundation’s mission to move resources for media and media-making owned and led by communities ...
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Molly de Aguiar wonders why philanthropy isn’t ‘placing bigger bets’

Molly de Aguiar
Wednesday, July 17, 2019
... the foundation announced its first set of grants and a new partnership with Bread & Roses Community Fund. The foundation is allocating a total of $5.3 million to 11 organizations. The grantees are varied, as are the ... Journalism, $1,300,000 PhillyCAM, $150,000 Scribe Video Center, $1,110,000 SEAMAAC (Southeast Asian Mutual ...
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Lenfest Institute for Journalism Announces Local News Sustainability Grants

The Lenfest Institute
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
... News Business Model Challenge for projects that explore new business models for sustainable local news and ... and program management: • The University of Pennsylvania Center for Public Health Initiatives (CPHI) and its Healthy ... Co-op, Defender Association of Philadelphia, Community Legal Services Resolve Philadelphia and the Juvenile Law ...
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In Pennsylvania, three newsrooms are teaming up to cover state government

Tuesday, October 2, 2018
... Media Group announced Tuesday that they’ll work together to cover the state capital. The project, Spotlight PA , is ... a press release. Spotlight PA will also work with another new project announced Tuesday:  PA Post. That project is a ... soliciting questions our stories need to answer. We will be hosting gatherings and events in cities and towns ...

Community Voices: from a Moment and for a Movement

Spiral Q 2
Monday, August 24, 2020
... truth, and fostering healing. Arundhati Roy speaks to this in her recent article  The pandemic is a portal , ... Instead of feeling despair that the world will never be the same, Roy urges us to take a hard look at the ... caused by systemic oppression and reimagine and create a new normal that is better for the world, one where equality ...

Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

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Tuesday, September 26, 2017
... Lenfest Institute for Journalism , which is  dedicated to supporting journalism  and  just opened its doors last ... Institute again made news by awarding $2 million in new  grants  to support innovation in local journalism. ... high school guide for students and families. In what could be a textbook definition of an example of good timing, just ...
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Lenfest Institute offering $1 million in grants

Monday, June 5, 2017
... Writer The Lenfest Institute for Journalism will award up to $1 million in grants to drive innovation in ... of grants — “Experimentation,” up to $35,000 to help new projects get off the ground, and “Amplification,” up ... Those named as entrepreneurs in residence are expected to be experts in news technology, data science, marketing, ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
... Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $800,000 awarded to 24 organizations and projects. These grants will support ... organizations: Movement Alliance Project, Scribe Video Center, PhillyCAM, Asian Arts Initiative, Al-Bustan Seeds of ... media narrative about the local news desert of Camden, New Jersey, and replace it with an integrated, robust ...
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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
... million Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund to ensure that communities in the Philadelphia area have ... IPMF President Molly de Aguiar. “News organizations will be part of the solution, and so too will be other trusted ... the Knight-Lenfest Fund in September 2019 that enabled new product development at The Philadelphia Inquirer ...

Love & Equity in News

Love Now Media
Thursday, May 13, 2021
... initiatives increase along with demands for newsrooms to dismantle and repair long standing racist practices that ... I am committed to equitable practices that might be modeled by other newsrooms. And when philanthropists are ... elder woman. For me, documenting the story revealed a new kind of power. In a community where so many news stories ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $5.5 Million in Grant Renewals

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Wednesday, July 12, 2023
... renewals—all one-year grants unless otherwise stated—for ongoing support to organizations and projects aligned with the Foundation’s ... grant LoveNowMedia — $200,000, three-year grant The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University ...

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 ... three local organizations were awarded $247,000 to expand access to internet that is collectively owned and ... Fund and United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey to support the Regional Pooled Wellness Fund. The ...
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IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... Voices Fund grant recipients, with $800,000 awarded to 33 organizations and projects. These grants will support ... Jersey Information Equity Project. The fund also aims to center voices and leadership from communities counteracting ... violence through community-led storytelling, archives for building community power, community-centered news and ...

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

Wednesday, December 15, 2021
... awarded $1.3 million in continued operating support to seven key nonprofit partners as well as $400,000 to ... stories of Black girls and women. TCGM’s mission is to be a public ritual for the protection, praise, and grace of ... access and increase adoption. Media, Inequality and Change Center (MIC Center) was awarded a two-year $211,000 grant to ...

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 ... region.  “With today’s grants, the Institute hopes to help The Inquirer rise to the challenge it has set ...

HealthSpark Foundation announces the Dr. Frank E. Boston Black Justice Fund

HealthSpark Foundation
Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Via HealthSpark Foundation As part of our efforts to build a more thriving Montgomery County, it is with great ... “In partnership with the community, we are seeking to center equity and justice in creating a thriving safety ... safety net system, and you asked for us to be bold in our thinking about how we as a foundation can ...

Independence Public Media Foundation announces grants totaling $4.3 million

Media Mobilizing Project
Thursday, December 19, 2019
... of Independence Public Media of Philadelphia announced a new round of grants today, including $3.6 million to six organizations representing key partners for advancing ... Project, Free Press, and the Media, Inequality, Change Center (MIC), focusing on violence, safety, and the impact of ...
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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
... filmmaking community with grants totaling $1.3 million to filmmakers, festivals, and film organizations, with an ... million grant to help Resolve launch “Equally Informed Philly,” a project to provide rapid response public health ... news and information in multiple languages for the public, in response to COVID-19. “Community media ...
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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
... its Community Voices Fund grants, totaling $1.75 million to 43 projects which will document, share, and preserve ... “IPMF launched the Community Voices Fund to amplify and center voices, particularly from vulnerable communities, to ... toolkit for instructors working with students remotely. New grantees also include the Heaux History Project, which ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

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Monday, August 15, 2022
... region. In total, the foundation awarded 71 grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of ... (MAP), Free Press, and the Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) each a three-year grant to organize journalists, ... podcasting projects such as RadioCATA ($50,000), a New Jersey-based farmworker-run radio station by Comite de ...

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