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| The Grant Center Newsletter | March 2012
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News
Join us for the Grant Center's March webinar and mark your calendars for our April webinar:
- On Thursday, March 22, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, the Grant Center's Meegan White will present on a special webinar hosted by the Latino Public Radio Consortium. In Tesoro Escondido: Federal Funding 101, Meegan will discuss how to identify opportunities, long-term
 planning for grant success and working with community partners. She will also introduce participants to the free resources available through the Grant Center and to some specific grant programs of interest to public radio stations. Additionally, Magaly Rivera, Project Manager for the U.S. Department of Education's Project LAMP (Learning Apps Media Partnership) and HITN Vice President of Development, will discuss how to select federal funding opportunities aligned with your organization's mission and how to identify prospective partners. She will also discuss the grant proposal writing process and what the administration of a federal grant entails. This webinar is open to all stations, and simultaneous Spanish translation is available. Register here.
- Media Grants at the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). As you may have noticed, the media grant programs at the NEA have been changing. Join us on Wednesday, April 18, 2012, at 2:00 p.m. EDT, for a discussion with NEA's Director of Media Arts, Alyce Myatt. We'll discuss the changing grant landscape and hear what is in store for the next NEA grant competition, with an August 2012 deadline. Register here.
Listen Up: The value of community conversations. Have you ever considered convening a conversation with your local community foundations? These foundations are increasingly focused on engaging  with local citizens to help invest in the community's future. A listening session can help you understand issues and areas that they're focusing on, and how you might work together. Check out NCME and The Harwood Institute's resources for holding listening sessions, including why community dialogue is important, how to prepare for a meeting of community leaders and easy ways to find a facilitator. This tip is brought to you by the National Center for Media Engagement.
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
President Obama's FY 2013 Budget: The Process Begins Anew
On February 13, 2012, President Obama released his proposed budget for Fiscal Year 2013. The budget provides a modest two and a half percent increase in education spending over enacted FY 2012 levels, for a total of $69.8 billion. Read a detailed overview of how programs that public media stations rely on at the U.S. Department of Education, National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, U.S. Department of Labor and U.S. Department of Agriculture were funded in the President's budget. |
Strategies for Grantseeking Success: A Grant Center Webinar Series
Grantseeking is most successful when it is strategically done: when it supports your vision and goals, when it is planned in advance and when it is grounded in solid relationships. What are the best ways to make this happen? The Grant Center is launching a series of six webinars on the grantseeking process. Webinars will address topics including:
- Defining the Work, April 12, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT: What are the best ways to identify the needs of the community you serve? What questions do you need to ask as you define your project?
- Presenters: Cristina Hanson, Deputy Director, National Center for Media Engagement
- Maureen Paschke, Consultant
- Planning for Impact, May 3, 2012, 2:00 p.m. EDT: What changes are you hoping your project or initiative will achieve? How will you know if your project makes an impact?
- Presenters: Ellen Martin, Senior Consultant, FSG
- Pamela Benson, Major Gifts Officer, Georgia Public Broadcasting
- Identifying Potential Funders: With more than 78,000 foundations out there, how do you find the ones that are right for you? Presenters will include Martha Hosmer, Grant Center Prospect Researcher and Independent Consultant.
- Establishing Relationships: What are the best ways to cultivate relationships with funders? What has worked for other stations?
- Creating a Successful Proposal: What makes a proposal compelling? How can you best tell your story to a funder?
- Building for the Future: How do you practice "good stewardship?" What are effective ways to build ongoing relationships with funders?
The webinar series will launch in April. You can sign up for one session, for more than one, or for all of them. Watch for more information about registration soon. |
Federal Funding
Indian Education Professional Development Grants Program: This U.S. Department of Education program funds programs that provide professional development to Indian educators. Over $4m is available for 12 awards. Deadline: March 8, 2012.Investing in Innovation (i3) Fund: Development grant proposals are being accepted under this U.S. Department of Education solicitation. Funding will be provided for high-potential programs that aim to improve student achievement, decrease dropout rates, and increase college enrollment and completion. Up to 20 Development grants will be awarded, for up to $3m each. Notice of Intent due March 15, 2012.Program Challenge Fund: This Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) and Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) program funds high-visibility, high-impact limited series for the national public television schedule that offer a definitive take on a subject or break new ground in popular, public service media. Deadline: April 5, 2012.Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants: Through this program, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will fund projects that provide training for environmental jobs and target unemployed and underemployed individuals. Approximately $2.8m is available for 14 awards. Deadline: April 12, 2012.Telehealth Network Grant Program: The goal of this U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) program is to demonstrate how telehealth programs and networks can improve access to quality health care services in underserved rural and urban communities. Approximately $3.5m is available to fund 14 grantees. Deadline: April 13, 2012.Choice Neighborhoods -- Planning Grants: This U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) program aims to transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities. This solicitation is for planning grants, which provide funds for creating revitalization strategies. Approximately $5m is available for between 17 and 20 grant awards. Deadline: May 1, 2012.NEH Challenge Grant: From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), this program provides capacity-building grants that are intended to help institutions and organizations secure long-term improvements and support for their humanities programs and resources. Deadline: May 2, 2012.Migrant Education Program (MEP) Consortium Incentive Grants Program: The purpose of this U.S. Department of Education program is to provide incentive grants to state educational agencies (SEAs) that participate in consortia to improve the delivery of services to migrant children whose education is interrupted. An estimated $3m will fund 47 awards. Deadline: May 4, 2012.Trade Adjustment Assistance Community College and Career Training Grants Program: This U.S. Department of Labor program strives to meet the educational or career training needs of workers who have lost their jobs or are threatened with job loss as a result of foreign trade. Up to $500m, with be awarded, and at least one award will be made to an applicant in each state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. Deadline: May 24, 2012.Discovery Research K-12: This National Science Foundation (NSF) program seeks to enhance STEM learning and teaching by preK-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents, and it has supported public media projects in the past. There is $40m available for new awards in three different categories: Exploratory awards, Full Research and Development awards and Conference/Workshop awards. Letters of Intent due October 4, 2012.
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Foundation Funding
Knight News Challenge: This competition will take applications in three rounds in 2012, the first for innovative use of existing networks to convey news and information. First round: February 27 - March 17, 2012.Native American Public Telecommunications (NAPT): NAPT is currently accepting grant applications for the Public Media Content Fund. Deadline: March 16, 2012.Taubman Foundation: The Foundation will make Sustainability Grants (debt reduction, operating expenses, marketing, revenue generation) to arts organizations in the Roanoke, Virginia area. Deadline: March 16, 2012.Motorola Media Foundation: Applications are now open for Empowerment Grants, funding the development and innovative use of digital, social and mobile technology applications to address important community issues. Deadline: March 23, 2012. Entertainment Software Association Foundation: The ESA Foundation makes grants to support the innovative use of technology and/or computer and video games to educate young people inside and outside the classroom. Deadline: May 15, 2012. In addition, the Foundation has joined with the Joan Ganz Cooney Center and others to launch an Education Challenge Grant that will make awards to educators for school-based use of computer and video games. Deadline: April 6, 2012. Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation: The Foundation recently announced $1.4m in grants to help New York City arts organizations further their educational programming through the use of technology. Many community foundations across the country are investing in early childhood education, grade-level literacy and dropout prevention. For example:
- Santa Fe Community Foundation: Education and the achievement gap are high priorities for this foundation, which sees itself as a leader in tackling community needs. Deadline: April 2, 2012.
- The Rhode Island Foundation: Dropout prevention is one of the Foundation's signature initiatives. Its work includes an education speaker series co-hosted with public radio station WRNI.
- Denver Foundation: The Foundation is undergoing a change in strategy, but is maintaining a strong interest in education (including dropout prevention), especially focused on low-income and underrepresented populations.
- Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham: The Foundation makes grants in the areas of early childhood education, dropout prevention, economic security and vibrant communities. The next grant cycle opens in June.
For more information on community and other foundations in your region that have interest in education, email Amie Miller, DEI Foundation Development Adviser.
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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. |
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