The Digital Literacy Alliance (DLA) has received a $500,000, two-year grant to provide funding to immigrant-serving organizations that offer digital literacy training and to support its grantee network, the City of Philadelphia announced Wednesday.

The grant comes from the Independence Public Media of Philadelphia, Inc. (IPM), a new private foundation that’s transformed from Independence Public Media, founded in 1981.

The DLA grant is part of $5.3 million that’s been given to 11 organizations “to help communities across the Greater Philadelphia region build power through media and media making,” Molly de Aguiar, the president of the foundation, wrote in a Medium post.

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