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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 |
November/December 2019
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WETA Will Make Community Engagement Grants in Support of Upcoming Programming
WETA (Arlington, VA) has released three new RFPs for community engagement grants supporting outreach, events and similar activities related to current and upcoming programming:
- The sixth season of Finding Your Roots with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.(up to $7,500).
- The Gene: An Intimate History, a two-part four-hour documentary series produced by Ken Burns exploring the "historical biography of the human genome" (up to $10,000).
- Asian Americans, a co-production of WETA and the Center for Asian American Media that will look at history of the United States through the lens of the Asian American experience (up to $10,000).
- Stories from public housing residents in Atlanta during the 1970s and what it can tell us about concentrated poverty today in East Lake Meadows: A Public Housing Story, a co-production of Florentine Films and WETA (up to $10,000).
While each program has a separate RFP, submissions for all four will be expected to address the similar objectives focused on expanding audience reach, engaging diverse perspectives and more.
Learn more about these grant programs here.
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Grant Competitions for Media Production Now Open at National Endowment for the Humanities
Now is your chance to apply for National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) grant programs with a fit for public broadcasting.
These grant competitions recently opened, and all have deadlines in January 2020. Read on to learn more about these competitions, including priorities, anticipated funding and recent grants to public media:
- Media Projects: Development and Production - This grant program, one of the largest sources of federal funding to public media, supports interactive digital media projects, film and television projects, and radio projects. Film and television projects may be single programs or a series addressing significant figures, events, or ideas and drawing their content from humanities scholarship. Radio or podcast projects may involve single programs, limited series, or segments within an ongoing program. Development Grants ($40,000 to $75,000) enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production. Production Grants (up to $1,000,000) support the production and distribution of digital projects, films, television programs, radio programs and related programs that promise to engage the public. There is a long history of support for public media. The next deadline is January 8, 2020.
- Short Documentaries - Now holding its second competition, this new NEH program will make awards to documentary films up to 30 minutes in length that engage with topics in the humanities. Grants will support production of a single film or a series of related films, and should be intended for national or regional distribution through broadcast, festivals or online distribution. Applicants can request up to $60,000 for a single film and no more than $250,000 for a series. Awardees from the first competition are expected to be announced in December 2019. The deadline is January 8, 2020.
- Digital Humanities Advancement Grants - This grant program from NEH's Office of Digital Humanities seeks to enhance research, teaching and public programming through experimentation and innovative approaches in the humanities. This may involve creating or enhancing computer-based research methods and techniques, pursuing scholarship that explores digital culture and its impact on society, or digital projects that contribute to greater public knowledge of the humanities. While the Division of Public Programs continues to represent the most significant line of public media funding from NEH, the agency has been shifting its focus to digital projects. South Carolina ETV and Vegas PBS are examples of stations that have recently received NEH grants for digital projects with a local emphasis. The deadline is January 15, 2020.
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Meet the Funders Session at NETA Conference 2020
Join The Grant Center at the NETA 2020 conference in Washington DC on January 26-30 for a special breakout session:
Meet the Funders: Station Grant Opportunities from NEH and WETA
Join WETA, The Grant Center for Public Media and a special guest from the National Endowment for the Humanities for 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 PBS stations awesome opportunities in engagement and education? Come learn about all of these resources available to you and more. Bring your questions!
Speakers:
Anne-Imelda Radice, Director, Public Programs, National Endowment for the Humanities
Meegan White, Program Director, The Grant Center for Public Media
Chloe Kougias, Manager of National Engagement, WETA
Brody Letson, Sr. Manager of National Education, WETA
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Two recent webinars from around the system provide valuable insights for development professionals in public media:
- NETA: Making the Most of QPIs: From Content to Community (October 10, 2019) - At the 2019 PBS Annual Meeting, PBS shared its roadmap to 2023 highlighting annual beacon events and quarterly programming initiatives ("QPIs") that will align local community engagement with national programming. This webinar looks closer at the roadmap, and how stations are planning initiatives and fundraising strategies around it. In particular, development professionals may find it useful for looking ahead to what your station may be fundraising for in the months and years ahead.
- PBS: Creative Campaigns to Fund Capital (November 14, 2019) - This session reprises a session from the 2019 PBS Annual Meeting. Tom Karlo (General Manager, KPBS), Becky Magura (President and CEO, WCTE) and Amanda Mountain (President and CEO, Rocky Mountain PBS) discuss unique strategies for funding brick and mortar and digital infrastructure.
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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 us by
email or at 202-654-4207 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
Philanthropy News Digest looking at giving trends in family foundations, including how priorities differ between older and newer organizations.
Read more:
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Federal Funding
Save America's Treasures - This National Park Service program provides grants for preservation and conservation work on nationally significant historic properties and collections. Deadline: December 10, 2019.
Public Humanities Projects - This NEH grant program, consisting of Planning and Implementation grants, will make awards to projects that engage the public with issues in the humanities discipline. Deadline: January 8, 2020.
Media Projects: Development and Production - NEH's Media Projects program supports projects in the humanities that explore stories, ideas and beliefs. Both production and development grants are available. Deadline: January 8, 2020.
Short Documentaries - This new NEH grant program will make awards of up to $60,000 for a single, short documentary film or up to $250,000 for a series of related documentaries. Deadline: January 8, 2020.
Digital Humanities Advancement Grants - This NEH program supports innovative digital projects that contribute to public knowledge of the humanities. Three project levels range from $10,000 to $325,000 awards. Deadline: January 15, 2020.
National Digital Newspaper Program - NEH is seeking participants for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a national digital resource of historically significant newspapers published 1690-1963. Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections - This NEH program with grants between $40,000 and $350,000 helps cultural institutions preserve large holdings of humanities materials by supporting preventive conservation. Deadline: January 15, 2020.
Access to Historical Records: Major Initiatives - This NARA program supports archival projects that promote public discovery and use of archival resources. The Major Initiatives competition is currently open. Preliminary proposals are due by January 16, 2020.
Computer Science for All - This NSF program 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.
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.
Digital Projects for the Public - NEH's Digital Projects for the Public grants make awards of up to $400,000 for production grants. Deadline: June 19, 2020.
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 Roundups
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:
- Grant opportunities plus news about a $500,000 grant to Colorado Public Radio and public media recipients of The Pulitzer Center's 2019 Coastal Communities grant program (October 16, 2019).
- CLIR's Recordings at Risk grant program for digital preservation, fellowships from the McGraw Center for Business Journalism and grants to public media, including recipients of the Google News Initiative's recent North America competition (October 30, 2019).
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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