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Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

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Wednesday, February 5, 2025
News release PHILADELPHIA, February 4, 2025 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members bring a wide range of ... and accountable to our communities,” said IPMF President Molly de Aguiar. “Using an open call search for ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 75 Grants Totaling $4 Million

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Wednesday, August 11, 2021
PHILADELPHIA, August 11, 2021 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF), announces grants ... will help them do that,” said Molly de Aguiar, IPMF President. Organizations and individuals from the tri-state area submitted a wide range of media making proposals to the Community Voices Fund. Of ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

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Monday, August 15, 2022
PHILADELPHIA, August 2, 2022—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces grants ... grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of community media-making ($3.2 million), narrative shift ... that fights for racial equity and justice,” said IPMF President Molly de Aguiar. Highlights of the grants include: ...

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 Foundation (IPMF) announced its ... the pandemic,” said Molly de Aguiar, the Foundation’s president. “We were so inspired by the incredible creativity and thoughtfulness in the flood of proposals we received that we increased the fund from ...
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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
PHILADELPHIA, December 16, 2020 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces a major ... The foundation awarded the grants following a series of listening and learning sessions with local media-makers ... off from personal contact with one another” noted IPMF President Molly de Aguiar. “We really felt that urgency, so ...
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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) announces $2.6 million in its final round of grants for 2021. The grants focused support for ... their own stories,” said Molly de Aguiar, IPMF’s president. ”These grants, and all the grants we made ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $500,000 in Grants Awarded to Local Independent Filmmakers

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Thursday, April 17, 2025
Press release PHILADELPHIA, April 17, 2025—The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces $500,000 in grants to support ... filmmakers. The grants will support the development of their films and the expansion of their skills. A total of ...

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 Foundation (IPMF) announces $5.5 million in grant ... Project — $150,000, three-year grant Al-Bustan Seeds of Culture — $75,000 Asian Arts Initiative — $75,000 Big ...

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

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Thursday, June 3, 2021
IMPFlogo.png PHILADELPHIA, June 2, 2021 – The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces another major investment in ... grants totaling $2 million were awarded to a range of film, journalism, storytelling, and youth media ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces $800,000 in 2023 Community Voices Grants

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Tuesday, August 15, 2023
News release via Independence Public Media Foundation PHILADELPHIA, August 15, 2023—The Independence ... and distribute their own media narratives—and be part of a vibrant media ecosystem. It is critical for us to listen ...
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18Nov2020

The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
... This session will be moderated by Molly de Aguiar , President, Independence Public Media Foundation. RECORDING About the ... entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is the founder of Love Now Media, a non-profit social enterprise and Love ...

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 ... artist and activist Paul Robeson said, “the gatekeepers of truth [and] civilization’s radical voice.” This ... The 2024 ACG grantees are working in a diverse range of artistic practices such as crafts & textiles, folk arts, ...

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 ... direction of Omar Woodard, a Norristown native and Vice President of Solutions with Results for America, and Ms. ...

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

Code for America
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
News release from the Knight Foundation $1M investment will help Brigades in Miami, ... America will strengthen the business models and practices of local technology Brigades chapters in seven U.S. cities ... strong and resilient communities,” Code for America CEO Amanda Renteria said. “The Knight Foundation’s latest ...

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

Wednesday, May 4, 2022
... serve the growing and diverse social sector, The Chronicle of Philanthropy (CoP) today announced it plans to become an ... an independent board of directors led by Trabian Shorters, CEO and founder of BMe Community. Shorters is a retired tech entrepreneur, former vice president of the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, and ...
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$2.5 million Philadelphia COVID-19 Community Information Fund to provide support for coronavirus news and information needs

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Wednesday, April 8, 2020
... for Journalism A broad-based, collaborative group of media funders, news enterprises, and community information ... and after the coronavirus pandemic.  Created by The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF), The Lenfest ... and getting them information where they are,” said IPMF President Molly de Aguiar. “News organizations will be part ...

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, ... PublicSource in Pittsburgh and WHYY in Philadelphia. WITF president and CEO Kathleen Pavelko in the press release that the new ...

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