CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
2006
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Consultant: American History & Civics Initiative
Other
Review and score 88 proposals submitted to CPB's American History & Civics Initiative using an objective scoring instrument based on the Request for Proposals issued by CPB.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
International Documentary Broadcaster and Producer Conference
Other
During a three-day conference in Washington, DC, in January 2006, CPB and other public television entities cosponsored an event that enhanced the profile of both the corporation and the public ...
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 ...
NALIP Conference
Other
Annual support for the National Association of Latino Independent Producers (NALIP) conference and for the third edition of the Latino Media Resource Guide, a publication and online database used by ...
P.O.V.'s Community Engagement Campaign
Television
Implementation and expansion of a comprehensive community engagement/educational outreach campaign for 10 films broadcast in 2005-2006.
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.
Silverdocs Festival and International Documentary Conference: 2006-2008
Other
A three-year project supporting the Silverdocs Festival and International Documentary Conference, a film showcase that draws more than 15,000 participants from around the world, among them ...
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 ...
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 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).
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 ...
Where Fun and Learning Click!
Web
CPB launched the Where Fun and Learning Click! Initiative to engage "tweens" in public broadcasting through Web content. CPB funding supports the migration of four Web sites to PBSkids.org, ...