Our Partners

The Philadelphia Association of Black Journalists will partner with PhillyCAM, WURD Radio, and The Philadelphia Tribune to host a candidate forum that will be streamed across multiple platforms. The organizations would use data from Black Philadelphians on a variety of issues to inform their questions.

Philadelphia Gay News will cover the election with a focus on important issues currently facing the LGBTQ+ community, including needs of the trans community, homelessness among LGBTQ+ youth, and worker equity. PGN will host town halls, create voter guides, and publish election coverage that includes candidate interviews.

The Parks & Rec Heroes project will work with neighborhood partners across Philadelphia to host forums and events and crowd-source questions for candidates that address the impact of well-maintained parks and recreation centers, increased recreation programming, and a healthy urban forest on residents’’ lives.

In partnership with PA Youth Vote, Philly BOLT will train 20 youth facilitators to lead the Philly Youth Voices: Candidates & Elected Officials Listening Session.

PhillyCAM’s after school program will teach young people ages 16-24 the skills of media making through a political education lens. The program will give them the opportunity to explore how their peers engage in politics and learn to use media as a way of sharing information on pressing issues with friends and family.

The Please Touch Museum will convene a Children’s Mayoral Forum to address the issues important to the children and families living in Philadelphia, with a specific focus on families residing in the Parkside Community.

Project HOME will develop and distribute a voter guide focused on issues of housing, jobs, and services for people who have experienced or are at risk of homelessness.

Resolve Philly will be utilizing its “Shake the Table” program, a collaborative reporting and community engagement initiative focused on the experiences of city residents with Philadelphia’s operating departments, and the Documenters program, which trains residents to document and report on public meetings, to cover the election. It also will be producing a civic literacy and 2023 elections toolkit, which will use video, print, data visualization, text message, and in-person engagements to reach voters in English, Spanish, and Vietnamese.

Scribe operates WPEB 88.1FM, a radio station serving West Philadelphia that is produced by community members themselves. The West Philadelphia Voices project will develop at least 5 ongoing radio programs to be broadcast on WPEB that address the issues facing the West Philadelphia community, including gentrification, policing, violence prevention, and education.

Southwest Community Development Center will create two voter guides focused on issues important to residents of Southwest Philadelphia. 50,000 guides will be distributed to area residents through the Southwest Globe community newspaper.

Technical.ly will gather questions from its readers and other residents relating to inclusive entrepreneurship that will be made into multimedia candidate questionnaires. The responses from these questionnaires will be published before the May 2023 primary, and Technical.ly will work with a local influencer to publish an explainer video on one of the questionnaire’s more complex issues.

The Bicycle Coalition will host a mayoral forum to discuss the future of transportation and mobility in Philadelphia.

The Bullhorn's teen journalists cover the election and provide essential resources for young voters.

Elevating community voices and empowering Philadelphia voters through community engagement efforts.

The Elevation Project will hold a series of live social media interviews with judicial and mayoral candidates hosted by two formerly incarcerated individuals.

The Monkey & the Elephant will host a series community listening sessions, voter drives, and panel discussions specifically for the Brewerytown business community, artists and creatives, people affected by foster care.

The Philadelphia Citizen’s “The Ultimate Job Interview” editorial and event series will begin with community input on what residents want and need from their next mayor. From there, The Citizen will host free, in-person “job interviews” with each of Philadelphia’s mayoral candidates where voters can learn about their platform and ask questions, which will then be shared digitally. The coverage will also include a voter guide, reporting on the candidates’ backgrounds, interviews with the candidates, and canvassing sessions.

In partnership with a coalition of 38 community organizations, The Philadelphia Crosstown Coalition will host mayoral forums in several Philadelphia neighborhoods.

Hall Monitor, which already covers news about and important to the registered community groups, civic groups, and concerned citizens, will use its existing network to create a vehicle for low- and moderate-income Philadelphians to question Mayoral Candidates about the issues that are important to them and their communities.

The Philadelphia Inquirer is planning two video projects, one of which asks the candidates questions based on public opinion data, and the other which will interview candidates in their home neighborhoods around the city. It also plans to host events, including forums, town halls, and community-based issue events in partnership with other organizations.

Amplifying the voices of Philadelphia voters and providing essential election news and information to city’s African American community.