CPB-Funded Programs & Projects
2007
A Place of Our Own: The KCET Early Childhood Education Initiative
Education
A Place of Our Own combines a broadcast series, hands-on workshops within the community, and an interactive Web site to address ways in which parents and other at-home childcare providers can help ...
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 ...
California and the American Dream
Outreach
An initiative to launch public broadcasting services in public places using interactive media kiosks that feature clips from the four-part PBS series California and the American Dream, gaming and ...
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 ...
Crossroads: Publicity, Promotion and Web Development for the Crossroads Strand
Web
WETA will oversee and coordinate the services of third-party vendors in connection with the publicity, promotion, and Web development for the America at a Crossroads strand of eight documentary ...
Heart Disease: The Hidden Epidemic
Outreach
The outreach campaign for Heart Disease: The Hidden Epidemic (a part of public television's public health initiative, for which production was funded in collaboration with PBS through the Program ...
Hip Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes
Outreach
An outreach campaign to accompany the national broadcast of a 60-minute documentary on the impact of hip hop music and culture on young people. The project includes partnerships with national ...
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 ...
Launch
Radio
This team represents a first-time collaboration in national program development by senior producers on such a project. Launch will conduct a strategic nationwide talent search, identifying talent ...
Life in the Fat Lane
Outreach
A community engagement and outreach initiative to accompany the special on obesity (a part of public television's public health initiative, for which production was funded in collaboration with PBS ...
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.
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 ...
National Music Testing
Radio
This project will conduct classical music testing and will be designed to discover how today's public radio listeners respond to classical music. Building from the existing knowledge of earlier ...
NBPC Technology Now Conference
Other
A technology and new media leadership summit and workshop co-presented by NBPC and WGBH in Boston that brought digital leaders together with public broadcasting and minority producers to establish a ...
New Media Rights Counsel
Other
Franklin, Weinrib will be engaged to advise and assist CPB and major public television entities in protecting their rights in new media and the multiplatform distribution of projects, as well as ...
One Nation Under Law
Outreach
A post-broadcast outreach initiative for the four-part PBS series The Supreme Court focusing on professional development training for educators on the use of the series in high school classrooms to ...
Outreach for the Crossroads Initial Series
Outreach
WETA will oversee and coordinate outreach with a third-party vendor for the initial series of eight films to be aired beginning in spring 2007. The same vendor, under WETA's supervision, will be ...
Phil Craig Consulting Services
Other
Phil Craig will consult with the producer/director of Islam vs. Islamists, one of the films produced for America at a Crossroads that has not yet been approved for PBS broadcast.
PRX Talent Quest Search
Radio
PRX is a Web-based marketplace for the distribution, review, and licensing of public radio pieces and is used by 370 public radio stations and 1,500 producers. The PRX team will conduct its search ...
Public Television Programmers Association (PTPA) Web Site
Web
A project to develop, launch, and host a World Wide Web portal for the Public Television Programmers Association (PTPA) that will connect and assist the programming, development, and station ...
Ready To Learn: Content Development and Outreach/Awareness Campaigns, Phase Two
Education
PBS will implement the marketing, media relations, and promotion strategies developed in the national awareness and outreach campaign; coordinate content development with producers; and serve as the ...
Ready To Learn: Outreach Supplemental
Education
Sesame Workshop will create and evaluate a media-based literacy intervention, designed specifically for young children who are at risk with regard to reading skills. Specific objectives include ...
Ready To Learn: Reading Research Coordination
Education
The Ready To Learn initiative requires scientifically based research to help design and evaluate effective interventions for the target population, which includes children as well as their parents, ...
The Morning Show from PRI/WNYC
Radio
To conduct research and development for a new morning news program. The program, which will be produced in conjunction with WNYC, will have a fresh style that will attract new listeners while serving ...
The Power of Critical Thinking
Outreach
An outreach initiative to support the Power of Art, an eight-hour series with host Simon Schama scheduled for broadcast on PBS in June 2007. The initiative creates a partnership between public ...
The War (Outreach)
Outreach
A supplemental educational and community outreach and public awareness initiative to support the national broadcast of Ken Burns' series The War, a seven-part film of two-hour episodes to be aired ...
WNYC Music Integration Project
Radio
WNYC's Music Integration Project will address a problem that faces many dual-format public radio stations: how to spur listening to music programming while still serving a growing news/talk audience. ...