Yes, the national producers will come to your city to co-produce segments. Grantee Stations and their partners will help identify appropriate story leads for the national team and an event for when the team visits.
Yes, the national producers will come to your city to co-produce segments. Grantee Stations and their partners will help identify appropriate story leads for the national team and an event for when the team visits.
Yes the station has that option to film as part of behind the scenes or other pieces. The Producer and the Lead Station will coordinate with stations to finalize plans for the team's visit.
Recording/taping meetings is not a requirement, however recording portions of some events as part of a station's storytelling may be a great contribution to the overall project goals.
The proposal should include proposed topics and themes that the station is interested in covering based on their local work and/or that can evolve in collaboration with the national producers based on what stations have learned from their community conversations and partnerships to achieve the goal of sharing stories of veterans in their transition to civilian life. Production Guidelines will be primarily stylistic in nature to ensure consistency within the national series and will include items such as branding, shooting style, framing, segment length, story arc, narration style, etc.
Segments will likely range from four to eight minutes for the series itself, and promotional elements are likely to be shorter. Stations can also use all of the footage for longer pieces for their local work.
Early and on-going delivery of content will be a great asset to the project. The proposal should reflect the station's ability to film, edit and submit short-form video or b-roll as part of a 5 month build.
We anticipate that field production and the digital impact campaign will begin in March 2016. Starting then, a steady stream of station media pieces will be valuable contributions all the way through the completed release of the web series.
Broadcast is not a requirement of the grant, but stations should maximize the footage and final series across their local platforms as part of their on-going veterans-related work.
Local stations can leverage the project goals, convenings and content as part of their on-going work to serve their veterans and community and support local fundraising goals. It is not expected to continue to contribute specifically to this national series.
Just as early and on-going delivery of content will be a great asset to the project, convening events which lend themselves to capturing or producing that content as early and often as necessary to discover and create strong pieces is beneficial for the project. Station Grantees will be expected to convene at least three (3) local eventsthat engage the veterans community, with at least one event suited for collaborating with the Producer and national production team to co-produce content and to be planned in collaboration with the Lead Station and local partners.
Production guidelines will be provided by the Producer and Lead Station to ensure consistency of format and filming across all local content. Stations may credit local funders of the project as appropriate and in-line with production guidelines.
In an effort to better understand veterans' issues, discover content opportunities, and identify potential themes for storytelling that reflect issues in the local community, Station Grantees should partner with local Veterans Service Organizations or local chapters of national VSOs. Veterans Coming Home works closely with national partners who share public media's public service mission and high standards for quality and integrity. In addition to offering advice and guidance that shapes VCH work, partner organizations share their respective organizational expertise, tools and strengths and support our efforts to reach veterans with resources and information to help them transition to civilian life. National VSOs currently partnered with Veterans Coming Home can be found at the VCH website. Partnerships should be formed at the outset of the project in order to discover the best content opportunities and meet production schedules.
Similar to partnerships, in an effort to better understand veterans' issues, discover content opportunities, and identify potential themes for storytelling that reflect issues in the local community, Station Grantees should convene events or create opportunities in their communities that lend themselves to capturing diverse perspectives and content from veterans and civilians, to co-producing content as part of the national series and engagement, and to furthering community civilian-veteran dialogue. Station Grantees will be expected to convene at least three (3) local eventsthat engage the veterans community, with at least one event suited for collaborating with the Producer and national production team to co-produce content and to be planned in collaboration with the Lead Station and local partners.
Yes, submissions that propose audio/radio content that aligns with project goals will be considered. This project will feature many different kinds of media and stations are encouraged to be creative in their approach to storytelling and media creation.
The national production team will come to Station Grantee markets to co-produce segments for inclusion in the national docuseries. This production tour is slated to begin in March and continue through May. Grantee Stations and their partners will help identify appropriate story leads for the national team and an event for when the team visits. The Producer and the Lead Station will coordinate with stations to align schedules and finalize plans for the team's visit prior to kicking off production.
Segments will likely range from four to eight minutes for the series itself, and promotional elements are likely to be shorter. Station Grantees can also use all of the footage for longer pieces for their local work.
Yes, Station Grantees will be expected to produce and contribute content for the national docuseries. Content should reflect relevant issues in the local community suited for storytelling as well as a diversity of veterans' contributions and perspectives, as developed through station partnerships and convenings that engage the community as contributors of stories and to increase dialogue.
Yes, any content produced during this grant period may be included in the digital docuseries for national distribution and audience.
Reporting requirements will be established and agreed upon during contract drafting after Station Grantees have been selected. CPB anticipates these primarily consisting of narrative and financial report deliverables scheduled 2-3 times across the grant period. As outlined in Section IV – Project Expectations, Station Grantees will also participate in monthly surveys and other informal reporting mechanisms to share information on a regular basis.
Through a local-national content partnership with the Producer, stations will help bridge America's military-civilian divide by engaging their communities and partners to discover and share the nuanced, compelling and authentic lives of post-9/11 veterans in their transition back to civilian life. The series will incorporate themes and content developed by Station Grantees in their local markets and in collaboration with the Producer and Lead Station.
Grantee stations will be expected to conduct all activities specified in Section IV - Project Expectations of the RFGP. Grantee stations will make their own editorial decisions in consultation with the Producer and the Lead Station based on the Grantee Station's proposed area of focus and overall project themes and goals. As outlined in Section IV – Project Expectations, Station Grantees will also participate in monthly surveys and other informal reporting mechanisms to share information on a regular basis.
Funded stations will have narrative and financial reporting deliverables due to CPB per the contracted agreement and local content will be produced in consultation with the Lead Station and Producer, as well as made available to them for potential inclusion in the digital series. Target outcomes of the project are increased reach and awareness of Veterans Coming Home, increased public exposure to authentic stories of the veteran transition back to civilian life, and visible national dialogue about supporting post-9/11 veterans in their transition and about bridging the military-civilian divide.
Yes, Radio, TV and Online platforms will be considered if proposed content and associated activities align with project goals.
Station grantees should use all appropriate station platforms and assets to promote the content and partnerships and integrate the project into other relevant station activities. Grantee Stations will make their own editorial decisions in consultation with the Producer and the Lead Station based on the Grantee Station's proposed area of focus and overall project themes and goals. Station media pieces created with the grant must be new and original.
Yes, Station Grantees are encouraged to propose a model that meets local needs while making a valuable contribution to overall project goals. Proposed activities should be geared towards the most conducive opportunities for discovering authentic, compelling and diverse stories in applicants' local communities, for which content can be created around and shared.
Examples of veterans-related programing in the national pipeline can found at the Veterans Coming Home website and at PBS Stories of Service site. In addition, stations are encouraged to take advantage of relevant new or emerging national TV or radio programming as it becomes available and as appropriate to their local efforts.
The Lead Station and Producer will coordinate and support Grantee Stations with relevant training, tools, templates, coaching, and technical support across the duration of the grant period. Proposed convenings or story development with the national production team when they visit should be structured around co-production of a content piece, which can ultimately counts towards the minimum of five media pieces.
Budgets should be presented in light of Station Grantee's goals, capabilities and connection to veteran organizations and stories, as well as in a model that meets local needs while making a valuable contribution to overall project goals through the production of compelling local content.
The closing deadline listed in the RFGP is final. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, there will be no extension.
CPB evaluates all components and outcomes of a grant round to inform strategy moving forward, but cannot commit at this point to any subsequent grant round after the digital series.
There are no restrictions on which organizations stations may approach for local funding. As always, stations are encouraged to follow their funding and editorial integrity guidelines and to ensure potential funders are appropriate for the goals and intentions of the project.
