Open Grants

Television Grants

Greenhouse Fund

The Greenhouse Fund competitively awards grants for industry training and professional development projects for public television professionals and independent producers.

• WHO Any station, person, or entity may apply.
• WHAT Awards grants for industry training and professional development projects.
• DEADLINE Rolling

Program Challenge Fund

The Program Challenge Fund was created in 1987 to support high profile, primetime limited series and specials for the national public television schedule. The Challenge Fund is jointly administered by CPB and PBS, which make funding decisions based on mutually established programming goals and objectives.

• WHO Any station, person, or entity may apply.
• WHAT Funds for high-visibility, high-impact limited series and feature length documentaries.
• DEADLINE August 7, 2008; December 4, 2008

Radio Grants

2009 Radio Community Service Grants

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is opening an application window to consider new station applicants to its Community Service Grant program, and is prepared to allow 15 new entrants into the program in FY 2009 (beginning October 1, 2008).

• WHO Any radio station able to meet a specified minimum level of service to its community.
• WHAT CSG funds support general station operations and programming.
• DEADLINE May 30, 2008

Grants for Radio Stations

There are no open grants at this time

Grants for Television Stations

Small Station Training Scholarships

The scholarship program is intended to support and extend training beyond a public television station's normal training capacity; enabling station management and staff to access more training and professional development opportunities than the stations training budget would normally support.

• WHO Small public television stations with an NFFS of $2M or below.
• WHAT Professional development related training events that include but are not limited to in-station training, major giving initiative meetings, SABS training, staff functional skills training, or job-related for/non-credit courses.
• DEADLINE Rolling

Station-Based Election Programming Initiative

The Station-Based Election Programming Initiative (SEPI) provides grant funding to enable local public broadcasting stations to create television programs and multi-platform media content about 2008 election issues.

• WHO CPB-funded public television stations.
• WHAT CPB will award grants up to $25,000 to Stations for coverage of issues of local concern that are also of national interest in the 2008 election cycle.
• DEADLINE May 30, 2008

Local Service Initiative Round 3

The Local Service Initiative is designed to provide seed money to develop new or significantly enhance current public service initiatives aligned with a public television station's strategic plan. The amount of each grant will not be greater than $200,000.

• WHO Non-commercial television broadcast licensees that receive an annual CPB Community Service Grant.
• WHAT Up to $10 million, with grants of no greater than $200,000 to each qualifying grantee.
• DEADLINE May 15, 2008

Audience Research Grants

There are no open grants at this time

System Support, Management, or Consulting RFPs

There are no open grants at this time