Community Voices Fund

• Eligibility Criteria: Your project must fit at least one of the following focus areas:
  – Community storytelling;
  – Community-centered news and information;
  – Using archives for building community power;
  – Narrative shift and media for movement building (disrupting systemic oppression including but not limited to: white supremacy, colonialism, zionism, patriarchy, transphobia, homophobia, capitalism, ableism, etc.);
  – All applicants must be a 501(c)3 or an organization with a fiscal sponsor. If you don’t have a fiscal sponsor, you may still apply as long as you secure a fiscal sponsor before funds are disbursed. We are unable to make grants to applicants without a fiscal sponsor;
  – Organisations must have annual operating budgets under $1 million;
  – Previous Community Voices grantees are welcome to apply;
  – They will accept only one proposal per organisation, and they accept both new and established projects.
• Type of Funding: Programmatic
• Target Region: United States
• Application Language: English

The Independence Public Media Foundation is currently accepting applications for its Community Voices Fund to support creative, community-centered media and media-making across Greater Philadelphia.

The Community Voices Fund is an open call for 501(c)3 nonprofits or fiscally-sponsored organisations/projects based in:

• Pennsylvania: Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Philadelphia, Montgomery counties.
• New Jersey: Burlington, Camden, and Gloucester counties.
• Delaware: New Castle County.

Funding Information

• The Community Voices Fund will award one-year project grants within the range of $10,000 to $50,000.
• They will award a total of $800,000 in grants. These are non-renewable one-year project grants. The Community Voices Fund does not award general operating grants.

See here to learn more and apply.

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