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 6, 2009; December 3, 2009
Radio Grants
There are no open grants at this time
Grants for Radio Stations
Grow the Audience: Strengthening Local Journalism
This Request for Proposals seeks proposals from groups of 3-6 stations willing to form multi-platform reporting Local Journalism Centers around a single topic or issue that will result in an elevated quality and quantity of journalism. The Local Journalism Centers should create compelling content and community engagement opportunities that include audio, video, text, photos, blogs, social networking, dynamic syndication, and mobile applications.
- WHO Groups of 3-6 public broadcasting stations
- WHAT Funding to form multi-platform reporting Local Journalism Centers that will result in an elevated quality and quantity of journalism designed to better serve their collective audience.
- DEADLINE July 16, 2009
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
Digital Distribution Fund (DDF) Round 14
CPB will be accepting applications for Round 14 DDF grants from CPB-qualified, non-commercial educational (NCE) television licensees for Priority One: Digital Television Transmission Facilities and Priority Two: Digital Master Control Services projects.
- WHO CPB-qualified, noncommercial educational (NCE) television licensees only.
- WHAT Funding for Priority One: Digital Television Transmission Facilities and Priority Two: Digital Master Control Services projects.
- DEADLINE July 10, 2009
Grow the Audience: Strengthening Local Journalism
This Request for Proposals seeks proposals from groups of 3-6 stations willing to form multi-platform reporting Local Journalism Centers around a single topic or issue that will result in an elevated quality and quantity of journalism. The Local Journalism Centers should create compelling content and community engagement opportunities that include audio, video, text, photos, blogs, social networking, dynamic syndication, and mobile applications.
- WHO Groups of 3-6 public broadcasting stations
- WHAT Funding to form multi-platform reporting Local Journalism Centers that will result in an elevated quality and quantity of journalism designed to better serve their collective audience.
- DEADLINE July 16, 2009
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