CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
Outreach Programs
5 Sites Leadership Grants to Stations
Outreach
Thirty-five public television stations from 20 states received up to 5000 per project grant commitment from CPB to promote the use of the Digital Kids web sites among local communities. Launched in ...
A Lion in the House
Outreach
As one component of a community engagement campaign that includes ITVS, cancer support organizations, and public health service agencies, a youth community service kit was distributed before and ...
American Family Outreach Station Grants and Web Support
Outreach
This project, co-designed by PBS and CPB, includes support for outreach activities related to the American Family series. The outreach activity includes station grants for technical assistance and ...
Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century
Outreach
An education and outreach project supporting the Emmy-nominated PBS program, a limited series of four one-hour episodes exploring emerging and established artists. The outreach project uses ...
Asian American Heritage Ethnic Viewership Project
Outreach
Support to develop and implement a two-year Asian American audience outreach project anchored to national programming distributed by PBS through the National Program Service for Asian Pacific ...
Auschwitz: Inside the Nazi State
Outreach
Community outreach activities to support six-hour televised series that premiered in January 2005, coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz. A companion DVD/DVD-ROM for the ...
Boys in Focus: Raising Cain
Outreach
An outreach campaign that seeks to raise awareness among pre-school to adolescent boys about the importance of making positive changes to negative attitudes and behaviors, and works with youth ...
Bringing Wide Angle into High School Classrooms
Outreach
An outreach initiative that moves content developed for the Wide Angle series into high school classrooms nationwide. Locally, the effort focuses on training 400 global history and geography teachers ...
Curating Youth Voices for Public Radio
Outreach
Youth Radio will partner with existing and new youth media groups, local stations, national networks, and other organizations to increase the number of feature pieces by youth producers on network ...
Eyes on the Prize
Outreach
A national community and educational outreach campaign to bring a new generation of viewers to the landmark civil rights series Eyes on the Prize, that was rebroadcast in fall 2006. This ...
Latino Public Service
Outreach
Funds to further develop Radio Bilingue's fundraising model to strengthen relationships with foundations and other community partners.
Making Schools Work
Outreach
An outreach initiative supporting a two-hour documentary profiling different approaches to educational reform in American elementary, middle and high schools, distribute educational materials in ...
Moneywise PBS/DOD Financial Literacy Initiative
Outreach
An outreach initiative built around a forthcoming national public television special "Who's Afraid to be a Millionaire?" presented by host Kelvin Boston. The project partners local PTV stations with ...
My City Now
Outreach
An outreach program focusing on creating awareness and new audiences for PBS rebroadcasts of Los Angeles Now during Hispanic Heritage Month. The project brings high school students and senior ...
My New Hampshire
Outreach
Establishment of an opt-in, e-mail-based service designed to build bridges between citizens and civic organizations.
Our Town
Outreach
Funds to develop and manage a community outreach program for KASU-FM that partners with local Chambers of Commerce and civic organizations to help bring significant local issues and personalities to ...
Outreach Strategy Summit for Two Towns of Jasper
Outreach
Outreach strategy summit for the provocative program Two Towns of Jasper to create a thoughtful, inclusive, sustained national conversation about race relations in America.
P.O.V.’s Community Engagement Campaign
Outreach
Implementation and expansion of a comprehensive community engagement/educational outreach campaign for 10 films broadcast in 2005-2006.
Phase 3 Promotion of Tweens Web Sites
Outreach
Part of the outreach/promotion efforts for the Web sites, a pullout advertisement in Time for Kids to reach target audiences. 2.2 million 4th to 6th grade students received 4-page color magazine ...
Public Outreach Efficiency Project
Outreach
Funds to acquire an Enco Audio recording automation system and a Dell field recording computer system to update and increase the efficiency by which the station records, schedules and delivers ...
Radio Kansas Public Awareness Campaign
Outreach
Funds to to design and conduct a campaign to generate public awareness of Radio Kansas' public radio programming.
Ready To Learn: Target Outreach Stations
Outreach
A number of five-year projects will focus on the RTL outreach goal of implementing at the local level a systematic "surround the child" outreach campaign that targets children from lowincome ...
Roadtrip Nation
Outreach
A local and national outreach campaign combining grassroots on-campus community building efforts with off-campus national outreach partners, including public television stations, to provide a new ...
Sweet Honey in the Rock: Raise Your Voice
Outreach
National outreach campaign to help educators, cultural institutions and community organizers use the feature-length documentary about the award-winning, African-American female a cappella vocal ...
Take One Step (Working Title)
Outreach
A community engagement and outreach initiative to accompany four health specials emphasizing themes central to the four programs: the effectiveness of prevention; the potential positive impact of ...
The Age of AIDS
Outreach
An outreach campaign to accompany the broadcast of Frontline's four-part series that aired in April 2006. The project includes a mix of state and national public policy summits, collaboration with ...
The Forgetting: A Portrait of Alzheimer's Outreach Grant
Outreach
To offer station outreach grants to extend the reach of this 90-minute national program to unserved and underserved audiences, particularly rural audiences and ethnic minorities.
The Story in History: Engaging Youth in African American Lives
Outreach
An outreach initiative that utilizes the structure and reach of the after-school programs offered by the Boys and Girls Clubs of America and local public television stations' broadcast of the series ...
The War That Made America
Outreach
Educational and public television partnership activities in association with the January 2006 national primetime broadcast of a four-part series on the French and Indian War (1754-1763).
Tween Web Site Outreach Support
Outreach
Consultancy to promote the Where Fun and Learning Click! Initiative to the public broadcasting community and to make recommendations to CPB on using this content at the station level. Launched in ...