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The Grant Center 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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| The Grant Center Newsletter | October 2011
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News
Save the date for the Grant Center's upcoming webinars, one in October and one in November:
- Funding Local News and Information: North Country Public Radio's Story. Join The Grant Center for a webinar on Thursday, October 27, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, to learn from North Country Public Radio's new John S. and James L. Knight Foundation grant from Station Manager, Ellen Rocco. Read more here and register here.
- Meet the Funders: National Science Foundation. Join us for a webinar on Thursday, November 10, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. EST, to hear from funders at the National Science Foundation. Register here.
Did you miss our September webinars? You can watch the recordings on our website. The recording of Unlocking Foundation Grants Through Partnership: One Station's Story is here, and the recording of Expanded Learning Opportunities ... Expanded Opportunities for Public Media is here. If so, please make plans to join the Grant Center's Meegan White and Amie Miller, along with Lonna Thompson and Will Glasscock from APTS, for a session entitled The Grant Center: Your Resource for Education Funding. We'll discuss funding trends in the foundation world, as well as the kinds of projects that are appealing to federal funders. After an update on the current climate in federal funding for education, we will leave you with some examples of opportunities that you can act on today. Terry Rinehart (Iowa PTV) and Allan Pizzato (Alabama PTV) will share their grant success stories. Our session is on Wednesday, October 19, 2011, at 8:30 a.m, and we hope to see you there! Pursuing a large federal grant? Let us know! We need to hear about the grants that you are pursuing. We want to know about them, and we're here to help! |
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| Federal Trends and Opportunities
Although the closing fiscal year provides limited new federal grant opportunities, there are a few new ideas that may provide opportunities for public media.
The Supporting Effective Educator Development (SEED) program is new from the U.S. Department of Education. Funding was set aside in the FY 2011 Continuing Resolution for competitive grants for teacher training and professional development. Only national nonprofit organizations are eligible to apply, but stations can take advantage of partnership opportunities. Learn more about the program here.
The White House is sponsoring a new nonprofit organization, Digital Promise, focused on educational technology. Created by Congress a few years ago, this is the first time the project has been funded. It will be independent but will receive some federal funding. The three primary goals of Digital Promise are: identifying breakthrough technologies, learning faster what's working and what's not, and transforming the market for learning technologies. As part of Digital Promise, a coalition of organizations, including CPB, PBS and Sesame Workshop, are launching the 2012 National STEM Video Game challenge. Public media is already heavily involved in this initiative, and as competitions become available, the Grant Center will help stations identify opportunities.
Read more about these programs here. |
Federal Funding
Supporting Effective Educator Development: This program from the U.S. Department of Education supports projects that recruit, select, and prepare or provide professional enhancement activities for teachers and/or principals. Approximately $24.68m will be available, and awards will range from $5m to $15m. The estimated average size of an award is $8.3m, and the Department expects to make between one and five awards. Deadline: November 7, 2011. Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections: This National Endowment for the Humanities program helps cultural institutions preserve large and diverse holdings of humanities materials. Planning grants and implementation grants are both available. The maximum award for planning grants is $40,000, and the maximum award for implementation grants is $350,000. Deadline: December 1, 2011. Scholarly Editions and Translations: This National Endowment for the Humanities program supports the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in adequate editions. Awards are made for between one and three years and normally range from $50,000 to $100,000 per year. Deadline: December 8, 2011. Statewide, Longitudinal Data Systems Program: From the U.S. Department of Education, this program awards grants to state educational agencies to design, develop and implement statewide, longitudinal data systems, with a long-term goal of helping all states create comprehensive early-learning-through-workforce systems that use data to improve education services and outcomes. $100m has been requested for this program, and the average size of awards is between $1m and $5m for the entire project period of 36 months. Deadline: December 15, 2011. Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program: This program, sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services, funds projects designed to address the education and training needs of the professionals who help build, maintain and provide public access to the world's information systems and sources. Project Grants will range from $50,000 to $500,000, Collaborative Planning Grants will be for no more than $50,000, and National Forum Planning Grants will be for no more than $100,000. Deadline: December 15, 2011. Discovery Research K-12: This National Science Foundation program seeks to enhance the learning and teaching of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) by preK-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents. There are three types of projects: Exploratory projects, Full Research and Development projects, and Conferences and Workshops. About 15-20 Exploratory awards for up to $450,000 each, 15-20 Full Research and Development awards for up to $3m each, and five Conference/Workshop awards of up to $100,000 will be awarded. Deadline: January 10, 2012. |
Foundation Funding
The California Endowment: The Endowment has a very strong history of project support to public media initiatives focused on improving the health of Californians. The Endowment also provides Program-Related Investments (PRIs) to organizations that support its goals. The next deadline to apply for a PRI is October 6, 2011.
The Campaign for Grade-Level Reading: The Campaign, a collaborative 10-year effort among a national coalition of funders, business and community stakeholders, has a goal of increasing, by 50 percent, the number of low-income children reading on grade level in third grade in at least a dozen states over the next ten years. Letters of intent are due October 14, 2011.
Creative Work Fund: The Fund supports collaborative projects between artists and nonprofit organizations, including media (radio, film and online media arts). Grants are open to applicants in Northern California. Deadline: December 2, 2011.
FedEx Corporation Contributions Program: In recent years, many foundations and corporations have given significant grants in the aftermath of disasters. Public media outlets, especially radio, play a vital role in informing communities both before and after disasters happen. FedEx has a strong interest in disaster preparedness, including disaster preparedness education initiatives.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Florida Foundation: This Foundation makes grants to increase Floridians' access to quality health care, including support for education and outreach. It recently expanded its giving to include support for education and literacy, arts and culture, and disaster preparedness -- all areas which may be of interest to public media outlets based in Florida.
Walmart Foundation: Dropout prevention, women and girls, literacy and workforce development are all priorities for the Walmart Foundation -- and are all topics that intersect with new or ongoing public media initiatives. The Foundation makes grants at both the state and national levels. |
| Success Stories
The Grant Center is starting a new feature, Success Stories, to highlight stations that have recently been successful in securing funding. By reading about what has helped other stations to be successful in funding pursuits, we hope that you will find some helpful tips to use in your search.
PBS Hawaii leveraged The Clarence T.C. Ching Foundation's interest in its groundbreaking student journalism project into a $5m grant to the station's capital campaign. Read more here.
The Native Media Resource Center received a first-time grant of $50,000 from The California Endowment to promote health on its new station, KGUA. Read more here.
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| Free Prospect Research Service
Whether your station is seeking to expand its newsroom, renovate facilities, make up for a funding cut or launch a new initiative, the bottom line is the same: money is needed to implement your vision. The Grant Center can help you find that money through its free custom foundation prospect research service.
With more than 78,000 foundations out there, it can be a daunting task to find the ones that are viable prospects for you. The Grant Center will do the research for you, identifying foundations that match your goals and providing you with brief notes and sample grants for each. We've already helped individual stations and collaborations to identify foundation prospects for general operating support, equipment, health reporting, education coverage and much more.
For more information or to request research please contact Amie Miller, DEI Foundation Development Advisor. |
Connect with the Grant Center
Whether you are seeking federal or foundation funding, the Grant Center website, tailored specifically to public media grant seekers, will help you find just what you need. With over 300 funding opportunities, and growing each day, our user-friendly search options help you find the funding opportunity of your choice. Visit our website. Then, be sure to check back often to see the most recent funding opportunities and news articles. We also encourage you to subscribe to our RSS feed or follow us on Twitter: @aptsgrantcenter. The Grant Center is made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Questions? Please email the Grant Center: grantcenter@apts.org, or visit our website: www.apts.org/grantcenter. |
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