Love Now Media

What Love Now Media does

Love Now Media is a Philadelphia-based social enterprise media company founded in 2021, operating through a hybrid legal structure combining an LLC (S-Corp) with a 501c3 nonprofit component. The company designs narrative strategies rooted in African and Indigenous storytelling traditions to serve three primary segments: educational institutions, community/social-justice organizations, and businesses seeking culturally rooted brand and engagement storytelling. Its product surface is organized as a platform-plus-modules architecture: the core media company sits behind Love Now Magazine (a themed print and digital publication), the Poet's Press (a poetry-as-journalism initiative), and the Love Lab (a physical storytelling and civic engagement space in Philadelphia that includes an AI education station). Adjacent modules include four video series (Every Voice Every Vote, Heart of the Story, Just Love Stories, BE.DO.LOVE.), three podcasts (Conscious Connections, Dinner W/ Friends, Making Love & Designing the Future), recurring events (11 Days of Love Stories festival, Lunch & Love conversations), and a merchandise storefront on SpreadShop.

The company is founder-led by Jos Duncan-Asé (Founder, Executive Producer and Publisher), with a small core team of approximately 9 employees supplemented by contracted contributors, editors, and community partners. Technology is conventional media/web infrastructure — WordPress-based site, standard podcast/video hosting, social platforms, and a SpreadShop storefront — with AI used only for administrative and operational purposes and for public AI-literacy programming at the Love Lab. There are no proprietary AI/ML models, patents, or platform APIs.

The business model is primarily philanthropic: grant funding from a small set of regional and national foundations (People's Media Fund, Spring Point Partners, Leeway Foundation, Poetry Foundation, Stoneleigh Foundation, Philadelphia Media Forge, plus the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative) supplemented by individual donations and merchandise sales. There is no publicly disclosed pricing for core services, no SaaS or subscription product, and no identified external institutional or venture investors. The go-to-market is community-led: partnership-based engagement with educational, civic, and cultural institutions rather than a transactional sales motion, with content and events serving both mission and audience-building functions. The company executed a 2025 strategic pivot away from original news and print magazine toward digital and community-engagement formats, and in 2026 opened the Love Lab physical space and relaunched the Poet's Press under new co-editors Ursula Rucker and Yolanda Wisher.

Name

Love Now Media

Legal name

Love Now Media

Website

https://lovenowmedia.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Love Now Media is a Philadelphia-based social enterprise media company that uses empathy-centered storytelling rooted in African and Indigenous traditions to serve educational institutions, community organizations, and businesses through a magazine, poetry journalism, podcasts, video, events, and a physical engagement space.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social impact media and storytelling services

NAICS

Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (71151), Independent Artists, Writers, and Performers (7115), Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services (5418)

SIC

Periodicals: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2721), Miscellaneous Publishing (2741)

akta.pro primary industry

Community-Integrated Publishing Platforms (MPACAIAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Community, Ethnic & Multilingual News Publishers (MPAJADAG), Nonprofit & Cause Communications (BPAFADAK)

Keywords

• Community storytelling media
• Narrative strategy consulting
• Social impact journalism
• Civic engagement programming
• Independent media production

Headquarters

HQ city

Philadelphia

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Others

Revenue model

1. Grants and Sponsorships: Love Now Media operates as both an LLC (S-Corp) and a 501c3 nonprofit, receiving grants from foundations such as People's Media Fund, Spring Point Partners, and Leeway Foundation, as well as sponsorship support.
2. Merchandise Sales: Sale of Love Now branded merchandise through SpreadShop including apparel and accessories.
3. Donations: Donations from individuals and supporters through their donate page.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Love Now Media is a social enterprise media company that designs narrative strategies through storytelling, media production, arts programming, and civic engagement rooted in African and Indigenous traditions. It delivers these strategies to educational institutions, businesses, and community organizations through a portfolio of editorial products including Love Now Magazine, the Poet's Press, documentary video series, podcasts, community events, and the Love Lab public engagement space.

Product overview

Love Now Media is a social enterprise media company operating as a platform-plus-modules architecture. The core offering combines storytelling, media production, and civic engagement across multiple channels including Love Now Magazine (a themed publication), the Poet's Press (poetry-as-journalism initiative), and the Love Lab (a physical storytelling and AI education space). Video content is distributed through branded series including Every Voice Every Vote, Heart of the Story, Just Love Stories, and BE.DO.LOVE. Audio programming includes three podcasts: Conscious Connections, Dinner W/ Friends, and Making Love & Designing the Future. The company also produces events such as the annual 11 Days of Love Stories festival and Lunch & Love conversation series, alongside merchandise sales through the Love Now Shop.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Love Now Magazine: A publication featuring stories of transformation, healing, and community at the intersection of social justice, wellness, and equity.
• Poet's Press
• Love Lab

Products and services

• Love Now Media narrative strategy services Core narrative strategy service that helps educational institutions, businesses, and community organizations build trust, preserve cultural memory, and increase economic mobility through storytelling, media production, arts programming, and civic engagement.
• Love Now Magazine A themed print and digital publication featuring stories about healing, community, social justice, wellness, equity, and arts for Philadelphia and broader audiences.
• Poet's Press A journalism initiative that commissions and publishes poetry as media, with poets interpreting current events, responding to injustice, processing grief, celebrating love, and deepening public understanding through poetry.
• Love Lab A public storytelling and civic engagement space that uses art, media, dialogue, and AI education to build human connection and strengthen communities, featuring daily and weekly activations including Sacred Reset meditation, Social Singing Sessions, Live Performances, Film Screenings, AI Activation Station, and Create Love Station.
• 11 Days of Love Stories An annual love-infused festival held over 11 days each summer in Philadelphia that amplifies love stories and aims to shift the cultural landscape of media by highlighting experiences often overlooked in mainstream storytelling.
• Lunch & Love A series of virtual community conversations designed to nurture empathy-centered storytelling, narrative ownership, and community building inspired by acts of love.
• Every Voice Every Vote
• Heart of the Story
• Just Love Stories
• BE.DO.LOVE.
• Conscious Connections
• Dinner W/ Friends
• Making Love & Designing the Future
• Love Now Shop

Quantifiable outcome

• Poet's Press has published work from multiple Philadelphia poets with weekly publication beginning September 2026

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

Seven partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Philadelphia Journalism CollaborativecoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerA coalition of 30+ local newsrooms doing solutions reporting. Love Now Media collaborates on stories and receives funding support for reporting initiatives.
• Bartram's Garden / Sankofa Community FarmminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for coverage of youth programs and agricultural education at Sankofa Community Farm.
• Wealth and Work Futures Lab / Lindy Institute for Urban Innovation (Drexel University)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration with Drexel's program for the Media Design Fellows 'Moment of Sharing' event and ongoing coverage of community initiatives.
• Technical.lyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerMedia partnership for collaborative content coverage, including the Love x Tech series on AI in business.
• Green PhillyminorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-publishing partner for environmental and community stories including gun violence healing initiatives.
• WURD RadiominorGTM or Marketing PartnerCo-publishing partner for solutions journalism on issues affecting Philadelphia communities.
• ArtPhillyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for Love Lab as part of Art Philly's What Now:2026 festival, featuring multidisciplinary arts practices.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Green Philly: An independent Philadelphia-based media outlet covering environmental and community sustainability stories. Green Philly is both a co-publishing partner and direct peer — both organizations are mission-driven local media companies producing community journalism in Philadelphia with nonprofit/grant funding models.
• Scalawag Magazine: An independent, Black-led Southern magazine and multimedia platform covering politics, culture, and social justice with a similar values-driven, community-rooted editorial model. Both organizations blend magazine publishing, audio/video, and grant-supported nonprofit structures to serve historically marginalized audiences.
• Resolve Philly: A Philadelphia-based nonprofit journalism collaborative focused on solutions-oriented reporting that partners with 30+ local newsrooms (including Love Now Media via the Philadelphia Journalism Collaborative). Both organizations occupy the niche of community-rooted, mission-driven media in Philadelphia with foundation-supported funding models.
• Type Investigations: A nonprofit investigative journalism organization producing long-form reporting on injustice. Both Love Now Media and Type Investigations operate nonprofit journalism models funded primarily by foundations, with a focus on amplifying underreported community stories.
• WURD Radio: Philadelphia's Black-owned talk radio station focused on the African American community. WURD is both a co-publishing partner and direct peer — both organizations center Black Philadelphia voices, culture, and civic issues through local media, and compete for overlapping audience and foundation attention.
• Button Poetry: A poetry media company that publishes and distributes spoken-word poetry through video, performance, and publishing channels. Both organizations treat poetry as a journalism and storytelling medium, commission poets to engage with current events, and share cultural-preservation missions within the spoken-word ecosystem.

Broad incumbents

• The Marshall Project: A larger, established nonprofit news organization covering the U.S. criminal justice system. While Love Now Media covers gun violence and community healing more locally, both share a nonprofit journalism model, foundation funding, and editorial focus on communities affected by systemic injustice.
• Blavity Inc. A Black-owned digital media company operating multiple verticals (Blavity, Shadow & Act, Travel Noire, 21Ninety) covering culture, news, and lifestyle. While Love Now Media focuses on local empathy-centered storytelling, Blavity operates a scaled multi-brand Black-audience media model with similar cultural-preservation and community-empowerment themes.
• The Root: A major national digital media platform covering Black culture, politics, and identity with significantly larger reach and resources. Both share an editorial focus on Black community storytelling and cultural commentary, though The Root operates at national scale versus Love Now Media's hyper-local Philadelphia focus.

Regional players

• Technical.ly: A Philadelphia-based media company covering the local tech and innovation ecosystem. Technical.ly is both a media partnership partner and a regional peer — both organizations produce Philadelphia-centered digital content, host community events, and operate within the same local media ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/lovenowmedia
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCfPQc3xX6neheDW_trioYVg
• Facebookfacebook.com/LoveNowMedia
• Instagraminstagram.com/lovenowmedia
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/love-now-media

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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