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18Nov2020

The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals

Wednesday, November 18, 2020
1:00pm - 2:30pm
Video Conference
... how they utilize their secret weapon – media and media-making – as a force for social justice: Get some insight ... entrepreneur, and public speaker. She is the founder of Love Now Media, a non-profit social enterprise and Love ... Ethnic Studies. The Secret Weapon for Achieving Your Foundation’s Goals ...

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 ... increasing digital equity in the region, in addition to making matching funds available to support local newsrooms ... human beings and achieve justice for a full  life. YES! (Your Empowered Sexuality) - is an initiative that provides ...

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

Independence Public Media Foundation
Thursday, June 3, 2021
... another major investment in Philadelphia’s media making community. Thirteen grants totaling $2 million were awarded to a range of film, journalism, storytelling, and youth media ...
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Media/JournalismRacial EquitySocial Justice
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Equity and Social Justice

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 ... has been owned by The Chronicle of Higher Education Inc., a private, for-profit company. “The Chronicle of Philanthropy is ...
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Social Innovation

$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 addressing the information needs of Philadelphia’s most vulnerable communities at this time of acute need.  ... a multimedia initiative including radio, digital, and event programming that is designed to connect Philadelphians ... and supports creative, community-centered media and media making across Greater Philadelphia. Through grant-making and ...

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

IPMF Community Voices 2023 - Save Chinatown
Tuesday, August 15, 2023
... and distribute their own media narratives—and be part of a vibrant media ecosystem. It is critical for us to listen ... they determine the storytelling and the resources needed most in this moment,” said IPMF Program Officer, Nuala ... in and around Philadelphia was energizing. Decision making was intense, and often included difficult ...
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Lenfest Institute awards $2 million to 12 local news outlets

Lenfest Institute logo
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
...  (By  ANNE EIGEMAN )   During a time when news outlets of all sizes are experiencing unprecedented financial ... just opened its doors last year , has been steadily making news of its own.  NPQ  has  covered  some ... in the service of a thriving democracy.” Stay tuned to your local news sources to see how the results from this ...
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Media/Journalism

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 ... will help these Brigades deliver impact and create a blueprint for success in their communities by developing ... technology will ultimately implement technology that’s most impactful, inclusive and accessible to all residents. ...

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
... Inquirer to support initiatives that will enhance coverage of Philadelphia’s most pressing issues, with a particular focus on communities that have been historically ...

Independence Public Media Foundation Welcomes Seven New Board Members

IPMF new board members 2025
Wednesday, February 5, 2025
... Foundation (IPMF) welcomes seven new members to its board of directors. The new board members bring a wide range of skills and expertise including media-making, strategic coalition-building, nonprofit governance, ...
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Leadership, Culture and Community

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 ... toolkit in Spanish providing best practices on the most popular tools for driving local news revenue through ... of the greater Philadelphia region. This inaugural grant-making effort has been launched in the belief that ...
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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 those advocating for justice, wellness, and equity. I ... and entry points into the world of news and media making. For a long time, I hesitated to call myself a ...

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 Black communities to advance justice and liberation for all County residents. HealthSpark Foundation has ...

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, creators ... leverage networks, and other resources to invest in media making efforts and real change. We want to continue to ...

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 ... partnership with IPM to support grassroots media and media making across the region. De Aguiar answered Generocity‘s ... Commission’s  Broadcast Incentive Auction . In return the organization received a one-time payment of $131.5 ...
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Independence Public Media Foundation Announces 71 Grants Totaling $8.9 Million

IPMF grantee
Monday, August 15, 2022
... grants to organizations and projects working in the areas of community media-making ($3.2 million), narrative shift around violence and ... and the Media, Inequality & Change Center (MIC) each a three-year grant to organize journalists, researchers, ...

Lenfest Institute offering $1 million in grants

Monday, June 5, 2017
... in news-and-information products, and to sponsor a residency program for entrepreneurs. Applications are being accepted for two types of grants — “Experimentation,” up to $35,000 to help ... said institute Executive Director Jim Friedlich. “We are most interested in applications that address the core ...
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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
... The Independence Public Media Foundation (IPMF) announces a major investment in the local filmmaking community with ... The foundation awarded the grants following a series of listening and learning sessions with local media-makers ... the public, in response to COVID-19. “Community media making and creative expression take on significantly more ...
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COVID-19

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 ... information have left city residents in the dark during a public health emergency.   Set The Stage (YSTS), a ... and supports creative, community-centered media and media making across Greater Philadelphia. The Foundation’s goals ...
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COVID-19

IPMF Announces 2024 Community Voices Fund Grant Recipients

IPMF 2024 Community Voices
Thursday, November 21, 2024
... will support the documentation, sharing, and preservation of community stories to advance social justice, build power, ... “The Community Voices Fund allows us to conduct a listening scan of the region’s media ecosystem, but more ... at this year’s Community Voices Fund decision-making process in Program Associate Samíl ...

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