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.

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.

Radio Grants

There are no open grants at this time

Grants for Radio Stations

There are no open grants at this time

Grants for Television Stations

Professional Development Grants

For the 2010 fiscal year, CPB will be providing travel grants for professional development to qualified small public television stations (defined by an NFFS of $2M or less). These grants will enable small stations to continue to receive the training and development needed to enhance their local services. CPB will give priority to stations sending minorities, women and emerging leaders from within their organizations.

Audience Research Grants

There are no open grants at this time

System Support, Management, or Consulting RFPs

American Archive Content Inventory Project Manager

The objective of this Request for Proposals is to solicit proposals from individuals and organizations from both the non-profit and the private sector to begin a system-wide video and audio asset inventory of Public Broadcasting. The content inventory will entail the physical inspection, viewing and classification of assets by specific categories including rights information. The goal is to inventory at least 75,000 hours of public media content through this program over the next eighteen (18) months.

Web-Based Self-Directed Public Awareness Curriculum

This Request for Proposals is for the creation of a web-based application that provides a value messaging curriculum developed from the Public Awareness Initiative.

Organizational Consultant for a Multiple Broadcast Station Centralcast Project

CPB seeks a consultant or consulting firm to assist in developing an organizational structure for collaborative development of a Joint Master Control, Storage and Asset Management Initiative serving as a centralized digital master control for CPB qualified public television stations. The consultancy is anticipated to last 8 to 12 weeks.

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