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The Grant Center for Public Media is public broadcasting's premier source for grant seekers, providing a one-stop shop for funding opportunities tailored to your needs, along with related news, resources and tools to help you make your case.
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| Grant Center for Public Media Newsletter |
January 2020
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 NEA Opens 2020 Competition for Grants for Arts Projects (formerly Artworks)
This is the federal grant program that historically has given the largest number of grants to public television and radio every year. These grants range $10,000 - $100,000, and grantees leverage these many times over.
- Read more on the Grant Center profile page, including archived presentations and resources created by NEA staff for public media applicants, and contact information for key staff to talk to about your project.
- The two deadlines this year are February 13 and July 9, 2020. Read the guidelines carefully and consult with staff if necessary to determine which competition is the best fit for your work.
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The latest round of grants was announced last week and includes a $25,000 award for Grant Center member UNC-TV's series, Reel South. Congratulations!
Visit the Grant Center's website to learn more about these grant opportunities for public media.
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CPB Opens Competition for New Ready To Learn Station Grants, Announces Four New Station Grantees for American Graduate
If you are a Ready To Learn station, be sure to have a close look at the new opportunities with a deadline of January 31, 2020.
- Ready To Learn Station Training and Implementation Grants will provide for Ready To Learn training of two staff members in Washington, D.C. in May 2020, as well as implementation activities. Total funding of $375,000 will be divided between as many as 25 stations.
- In the Ready To Learn Mentor Station Grants, CPB will contract with up to six public television stations to mentor stations receiving RTL Station Training & Implementation Grants in Spring 2020. Up to $72,000 per station is available.
CPB has awarded four stations almost $950,000 to develop educational media for grade school through university, as part of the American Graduate initiative. A special congratulations to the two members of the Grant Center: Iowa PBS and WHYY. The projects are:
- $193,065 to Iowa PBS for a project with teachers to curate a collection of user-generated science content for use in classrooms.
- $207,032 to WHYY in Philadelphia for Pathway to Careers, which will create a training program to help 80 students improve media skills and learn how to become freelancers.
- $246,863 to WKU Public Broadcasting in Bowling Green, Ky., for "Embracing Differences, Finding Strengths: A Public Broadcasting Model for Autism Inclusion." The station partnered with Western Kentucky University to establish a program that will will help autistic students publish content for public media. The project is meant to help promote neurodiversity in the workforce.
- $300,000 to Connecticut Public received for Thinkalong, a project that aims to expand the use of interactive public media. The web-based learning tool will help middle schoolers build debate literacy and critical thinking skills.
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NEH Announces $30.9 Million for 188 Humanities Projects Nationwide
 This round of awards does not include Public Programs grants or Digital Humanities, which give the most grants to public media, but it is worth noting two grants to media organizations here.
Both of these awards are made from grant programs with an upcoming deadline of May 15, 2020. New grant guidelines are expected in March 2020.
- New York Public Radio
Match: $750,000
Project Title: Preservation and Digitization of the New York Public Radio Archives
Project Description: The preservation of a portion of the New York Public Radio's historical sound recordings and the implementation of a Digital Asset Management system for the NYPR Archives.
Read more about the Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant Program
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Bay Area Video Coalition
Outright: $291,661
Project Title: Community-Based Preservation Education and Training
Project Description: The development of online training modules, two on-site two-day training programs, and a one-year fellowship, all of which are focused on educating diverse practitioners in audiovisual preservation skills, techniques and practices.
Read more about the Preservation Education and Training Grant Program
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Come See the Grant Center at NETA and the Public Media Summit
Will you be traveling to Washington for NETA or the Public Media Summit? If so, we would love to see you. Come by and say hi or email
Meegan to set up a time to chat in more depth.
- On Tuesday, January 28 at 11:15 AM, join the Grant Center, our special guest David Weinstein from the NEH, and the team from WETA for a session called "Meet the Funders: Station Grant Opportunities from NEH and WETA". We will have a lively discussion of upcoming grant opportunities for stations. Did you know the NEH made close to $4 million in awards to public broadcasters last year? Or that WETA's National Programming team is in the midst of a project-palooza with a pipeline of exciting films, series, and projects that offer local public media stations awesome opportunities in engagement and education? Come learn about all of these resources available to you and more. Bring your questions!
Read more about the conference here.
- The APTS Public Media Summit's 2020 theme is "The Power of Collaboration". Join us in Washington, D.C. February 24-26. Get in touch to set up a meeting or just stop by our booth.
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Journalism Funding News
- Report for America, launched in 2018 with funding from the Google News Initiative, the Lenfest Journalism Initiative, and others announces the local newsrooms selected to host journalists in 2020-2021. The program will provide more than $5 million in direct support to fund 250 positions at 164 operations across 46 states, including nine daily newspapers, 39 digital-only sites, 39 public radio stations, 12 local television stations and five non-daily papers. Nonprofit newsrooms account for 47 percent of the recipients. Read more here.
Public TV and radio stations include: WLRN Public Media (Miami, FL), WABE (Atlanta, GA), WFPL (Louisville, KY), WWNO New Orleans Public Radio, WYPR (Baltimore, MD), WFAE (Charlotte, NC), KOSU (Oklahoma City, OK), WPLN/Nashville Public Radio, West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Arizona Public Media (Tucson, AZ), KAWC Colorado River Public Media (Yuma, AZ), KUNR (Reno, NV), KERA (Dallas, TX), Houston Public Media, KUT (Austin, TX), Texas Public Radio (San Antonio, TX), KUER (Salt Lake City, UT), WNIJ Northern Public Radio (DeKalb, IL), Iowa Public Radio, Detroit Public Television, Michigan Radio (Ann Arbor, MI), Twin Cities Public Television, Kansas City PBS, St. Louis Public Radio, WKSU (Kent, OH), WYSO Public Radio (Yellow Springs, OH), Connecticut Public, Delaware Public Media, WCAI (Woods Hole, MA), WESA (Pittsburgh, PA), WITF (Harrisburg, PA), The Public's Radio (Providence, RI), Vermont Public Radio, KCAW (Sitka, AK), Boise State Public Radio, Yellowstone Public Radio, South Dakota Public Broadcasting, Wyoming Public Media and Yellowstone Public Radio.
- The American Journalism Project announced their first 11 grants, nine months into an initiative, led by a $20 million commitment from Knight Foundation to create a new venture philanthropy organization dedicated to local news. All grants in this round of funding have been awarded to organizations described as CNOs or civic news organizations. The Grant Center's ongoing conversations with AJP reveal an interest in their part in public broadcasting, especially in meeting the needs of underserved communities in "news deserts", however no grant opportunities for stations have yet been announced. The next phase of their work will focus on supporting the hiring of development professionals in the identified CNOs and studying best practices for fundraising. Learn more in this New York Times opinion piece.
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We Want to Know Your Funding Needs! Schedule a Call with the Grant Center Today
Grant Center members receive up-to-date information about grant opportunities with a fit for public broadcasting. From large federal grants and major national foundations to local and regional funders in your station's backyard, we can help your station find the right funding opportunities for your station initiatives to help diverse your funding stream. In order to serve our member stations most effectively,
we want to know your station's funding priorities for the coming year. This will allow us to better serve your needs and ensure you know about timely grant opportunities.
Contact Meegan White by
email or at 202-654-4214 to schedule a call.
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Spotlight on Twitter
 Did you know the Grant Center's Twitter account is a great way to get up-to-the-minute news and alerts on federal and foundation funding opportunities?
@APTSGrantCenter also
tracks trends in giving, philanthropy and other items of interest for grantseekers in #pubmedia.
This month, we're highlighting an article from the MacArthur Foundation's Director of Journalism and Media, Kathy Im, reflecting on priorities for 2020.
Read more:
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Federal Funding
Computer Science for All - NSF will make awards of up to $2 million to projects that provide students with access to computer science education at the preK-12 level. Deadline: February 11, 2020.
Grants for Arts Projects - The NEA Grants for Arts Projects (formerly Art Works) program supports creation, engagement, learning and livability in communities through grants ranging from $10,000 to $100,000. (1-1 match required). Deadlines are February 13, 2020 and July 9, 2020.
Higher Education Challenge Grants Program -
USDA will award $4.5 million across projects aimed at improving education at the postsecondary level to strengthen the nation's food and agricultural workforce. Deadline: March 23, 2020.
NEA Research Labs - NEA will award cooperative agreements of up to $150,000 with a 1-1 match. Awards support research that investigates the value and/or impact of the arts, either as individual components of the U.S. arts ecology or as they interact with each other and/or with other domains of American life. This would be a good opportunity to discuss with university partners.
Deadline: March 30, 2020
Challenge America Fast Track - The goal of this $10,000 NEA program is to support small and mid-sized organizations for projects that extend the arts to underserved populations. Deadline: April 9, 2020.
Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants - This new grant program from NEH will award up to $750,000 for humanities institutions with long-term infrastructure needs and capacity building core activities. Matching funds are required. Deadline: May 15, 2020.
Research and Development Grant - The NEH will grant up to $350,000 to address challenges in preserving or providing access to humanities resources. Deadline: May 15, 2020.
Digital Projects for the Public - NEH's Digital Projects for the Public grants make awards of up to $400,000 for production grants. The next deadline is June 19, 2020, with new guidelines expected mid-April.
Bay-Watershed Education and Training Program - The Bay-Watershed Education and Training program from NOAA provides funding for locally relevant experiential environmental education. The California, Gulf of Mexico and Hawaii programs are currently open. Program details and deadlines vary regionally.
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Foundation Funding
Members of the Grant Center for Public Media can access hundreds of foundations that fund public media through the
GC Search tool. Additionally, some foundations run limited grant competitions around priority areas for public media. The Grant Center publishes opportunities like these and news related to the philanthropic world in its Foundation Funding Round-Ups. Click the links below to read recent entries:
- The Dollar General Foundation will provide grants of up to $10,000 to nonprofits located within 15 miles of a Dollar General store for direct services to adults with literacy needs. Deadline: February 20, 2020.
- PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs have extended the deadline for grants to support youth engagement events around the 2020 election, the Caplan Foundation for Early Childhood is looking for nationally scalable projects and Blue Ridge PBS received a $2 million grant. (January 8, 2020)
- Multiple journalism mini-grants and opportunities for production funding, along with journalism funding news and ideas for corporate funding. (December 13, 2020)
The Grant Center for Public Media also offers custom prospect research on foundations to public radio and television stations. This service is available to all organizations that subscribe to the Grant Center. We will provide your station with a list of prospective funders that includes short descriptions of actual grants made and recommendations of the most likely foundation prospects. For more information or to request a custom search, please
contact us here.
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Connect with The Grant Center for Public Media
The Grant Center for Public Media, a partnership between America's Public Television Stations (APTS) and Greater Public, is public broadcasting's premier source for grant seekers, providing a one-stop shop for funding opportunities tailored specifically for public broadcasting stations, along with related news, resources and tools to help you make your case.
Whether you are seeking federal or foundation funding, the Grant Center for Public Media website, tailored specifically to public media grant seekers, will help you find just what you need. With over 450 funding opportunities, and growing each day, our user-friendly search options help you find the funding opportunity of your choice.
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