CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
2005
AFI Digital Content Lab
Television
A year-round digital content lab with rolling selection of proposals and project production; expanded Research and Development with a focus on prototype production; expanded digital content ...
American Cinema Foundation Workshop and Panels
Other
A documentary-focused workshop, outreach, and conference event exploring certain aspects of how diversity of ideas can be further encouraged in public broadcasting.
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 ...
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 ...
Between the Lions: A Digital Literacy Initiative
Education
Mississippi Public Broadcasting, in partnership with WGBH, launched this initiative for preschool teachers and child-care providers with two components: an introductory component to model how to use ...
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 ...
CPB/PBS Producers Academy
Television
An agreement to fund professional development workshops at WGBH for emerging national producers of public television. Building on what has worked, the successful CPB/PBS Producers Academy will ...
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 ...
Diverse Voices Project II
Television
To meet the needs of underserved communities through multicultural programming, compete for new titles by identifying promising work at the early stages of production, and mentor new producing talent ...
INPUT Producer Fellowship Grants
Other
The project funds fellowships for public television station staff and independent producers to attend the Independent Public Television Screening Conference (INPUT), a gathering of about 1,000 ...
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 ...
Museum of Television and Radio Video Archiving
Other
Support the Museum of Television and Radio's efforts to archive and catalogue 40 new hours of public television programming and 35 hours from archived programming to add to the permanent collection.
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 ...
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 ...
SILVERDOCS
Other
Support for the competitive SILVERDOCS festival, created by AFI and Discovery to showcase documentaries from around the world, as well as focus on CPB and public television content development.
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 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 ...
Washington Week Bridge Funding and Research and Development
Television
Provides bridge funding for Washington Week, the longest-running public affairs program on PBS, while research is conducted on how to make the show more relevant to viewers and potential corporate ...
WETA News Academy
Other
A news and public affairs production skills workshop based at and managed by WETA. The all-expensespaid, six-day residential Academy is intended to enhance the skills of public television producers ...