Afrik Digest International Magazine is a cultural and lifestyle journal with its publishing base in Colorado USA. The publication is authentic in the way it retells the story of the members of our community and gives readers a sufficient splash of entertainment, fashion, business, education-inspired stories, and information from within the United States and the continent of Africa. It has continued to own the responsibility to inform the global community on diversity, inclusion, and trends.
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Advancing Equity 2023, 2022; #newsCOneeds 2022
2023 Advancing Equity Award: $15,000 to support Afrik Digest in meeting the news and information needs of Colorado's African immigrant residents, and continued leadership of the Ethnic Media Exchange
2023 Advancing Equity Update: In response to increasing printing costs, Afrik Digest has shifted to a digital-focused model, completing a website update and printing less frequently - and navigating the common challenges of any newsroom making such a transition: reduced certainty about audience engagement with their digital product, and a need to focus on communicating the vision behind the change to an audience used to a different product. Their founder, Vera Idam, has been an active participant in the CPA’s Ethnic Media Ad Network working group, and has reconvened peer media leaders in Aurora via the Ethnic Media Exchange, to identify additional common challenges and opportunities for collective solutions.
2022 Advancing Equity Award: $15,000 to support networking events and dialogues between Colorado's mainstream newsroom media and African immigrants with expertise in diverse subject matters, in partnership with the Pan-African Business Association and the Urban Tikkun Centre
2022 Advancing Equity Impact: The Advancing Equity grant helped our organization to address the following specific challenges of our community:
1. Economic empowerment and community integration - This was achieved with our 'New Era of Black Entrepreneurs'. People of all races gathered together to discuss the challenges of blacks people in business and pointed ourselves to the path to the solution.
2. Community visibility, best practices to media content and coverage. This was tackled in our COLORADO ETHNIC MEDIA EXCHANGE-Strengthening connections engagement in March.
We hope to hold more engagements and networking events in 2023, within and outside of our community. The experience of this year is going to follow me into the future. It was amazing.