Archived Grants

Audience Research Grants

Formative Researcher for Ready To Learn Web Site Games

• CPB seeks a research firm to conduct formative research with children ages 3-5 from low-income environments to test their responses to twelve individual interactive games as they relate to preliminary indicators of reading impact.

Scan of Current Digital New Media Activities Within Public Broadcasting

• CPB seeks an objective scan of public broadcasting's existing activities in terms of digital new media content and use of related technologies, in order to help determine how and to what extent the public broadcasting organizations are using new media tools to provide services to the general public and to teachers and students in formal education.

Scan and Analysis of Best Practices in New Media Journalism

• This Request for Proposals is for a quick, but extensive scan and analysis of best practices in the use of digital new media in journalism, both within and outside U.S. public broadcasting and related organizations, domestically and internationally.

Research Study to Measure Impact of Local Content Initiative

• Design, implement, analyze and report on what impact, if any, the local mortgage crisis initiative has in up to three selected markets, the level of engagement achieved in each of the measured markets and any change in awareness of the participating public broadcasting licensee(s) that has occurred as a result of the mortgage crisis initiative.