Public Media Innovation Fund Round 4

The Public Media Innovation Fund is seeking to make investments in a small number of educationally-oriented projects that can support public broadcasting's role to increase economic and financial literacy.

In this round of funding, Public Media Innovation Fund will place relative small investments ($5,000 to $50,000 per project) in new media educational tools, applications and content aimed at helping students -- both adults and children -- , teachers and parents understand and cope with the current economic crisis.

The total investment available for this round is $200,000.

CPB is seeking innovative projects that:

1. Use new media techniques, strategies, applications or products to foster economic and financial literacy and enhance understanding of the current economic crisis

2. Include a broadcast component.

3. Indicate potential to meet a compelling economic or financial educational need.

4. Indicate potential to have a positive impact on learning for a targeted audience.

5. Demonstrate an approach that can be replicated by other stations.

6. Demonstrate a promising structured educational approach to be tested.

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