Youth Set The Stage

Youth Set The Stage (YSTS) is a youth-media collaborative made up of nine Philadelphia-based youth organizations with the mission to share and uplift the impactful work of the youth in their programs. The inaugural YSTS event occurred in June 2019 at the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts, bringing together live music, performance, video, networking and youth voice in a youth-led showcase of those working for social change in the Greater Philadelphia region.

Grants Awarded to Youth Set The Stage

$75,000 - Awarded July 2021

Focus areas

Youth

Representation in Media

Community-Centered Journalism

Description

This one-year grant will support the ongoing building of a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, engage youth media content creators, provide platforms to showcase the voices and perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, and provide young media makers with professional development opportunities that will include training, mentoring and paid work experiences. This project will build upon the year-long Youth Set the Stage cross-collaboration begun in 2020 among nine youth media organizations across the city through the pioneering support of Independence Public Media Foundation’s Community Voices Fund.

$46,000 - Awarded July 2020

Focus areas

Youth

Representation in Media

Community-Centered Journalism

Description

The 2020 Community Voices grant will support a series of online and youth-driven programming throughout the 2020-2021 school year. Youth Set The Stage will build a strong network of organizations working in youth media throughout Philadelphia, regularly engage youth media content creators and provide platforms to showcase and present the voices and current perspectives of these Philadelphia youth, creating an audiovisual capsule of the current moment. In the process of the year-long cross-collaborations, YSTS will build an accessible toolkit for instructors working with students remotely.

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