Project Grant RO2097420299

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Bric Arts Media Bklyn Inc. a $100,000 project grant under the National Leadership Grants program to produce One Brooklyn TV in partnership with the New York City Department of Education. One Brooklyn TV will bring educational media content to over 550,000 households in Brooklyn, providing students access to remote curriculum and instructional videos regardless of internet access. Now in its second year, the program will focus on creating...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) supports public television programs POV, POV Shorts, and America Reframed, along with related public engagement activities. The award to The American Documentary Inc., a non-profit organization based in Brooklyn, New York, will fund a range of activities to advance independent nonfiction storytelling and create...

This federal Project Grant award of $1,172,000.00 from the U.S. Department of Education's Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (CFDA 84.116) aims to elevate the capabilities of JSU-TV at Jackson State University, a historically black university in Jackson, Mississippi. The funding will be used to upgrade JSU-TV's equipment to industry standards, implement a comprehensive training program for students, and establish clear metrics for evaluating the success of these initiatives. The...

This $349,326 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program will fund the PBCORE DATA MODEL PROJECT undertaken by the Wgbh Educational Foundation, a non-profit educational media organization. The project will research institutional needs and metadata infrastructure to develop a simplified data model for the PBCORE metadata schema. This will generate documentation of the new model...

Austin Community College District will use a $700,000 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Postsecondary Education to establish an Educational Resource Center at Austin PBS through August 31, 2025. The grant funding is provided through the Fund for the Improvement of Postsecondary Education (FIPSE) program, which aims to support institutional reforms and innovative strategies to improve postsecondary instruction and expand opportunities. Specifically, Austin...

This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...

This $114,535.41 federal Project Grant award, provided by the Department of the Interior's Office of Insular Affairs under the Economic, Social, and Political Development of the Territories program (CFDA 15.875), is funding the renovation and repair of the broadcasting building for V7AB in the Republic of the Marshall Islands. The grant aims to maintain essential and high-quality broadcast services in the Marshall Islands through these infrastructure improvements. The award has a performance...

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) awarded a $100,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) to Independent Television Service Inc. (ITVS), a non-profit organization, to support promotion costs and community engagement activities for the public television series Independent Lens. The grant period runs from January 1, 2024 to December 31, 2024. As a leading documentary film funder and distributor for public media, ITVS...

The Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs awarded a $103,914 Project Grant to Media Alternativa of Moldova under the AEECA/ESF PD Programs (CFDA 19.900) to support the project "Ensure TV8 Continuous Broadcast in Digital Multiplex" from September 1, 2021 through August 31, 2022. The grant will fund efforts to provide continuous broadcasting services for TV8 in digital format within Moldova's public diplomacy programs in Europe, Eurasia and Central Asia aimed at...

This federal Project Grant award of $100,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Grants to Organizations and Individuals program (CFDA 45.024) supports the MediaMaker Fellowship and Preservation Access programs operated by The Bay Area Video Coalition, Incorporated (BAVC). The MediaMaker Fellowship provides stipends, production funds, and mentorship opportunities for media makers across the country. The Preservation Access program offers affordable...