APTS Grant Center Funding Newsletter-June 2010
June 11, 2010
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Join Our Datacasting Webinar Thursday, June 24
The GRAMMY Foundation: Preserving Historically and Culturally Significant Audio
Listen to Our Conference Call with NEA
Listen to Our Conference Call with USDA
Open Federal Funding Opportunities
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Join Our Datacasting Webinar Thursday, June 24
Join us Thursday, June 24 at 12:00 p.m. EDT/9:00 a.m. PDT for a webinar on “Funding for Datacasting” with special guest Tom Axtell, General Manager, Vegas PBS, and Mark O’Brien, Executive Vice President, Technology SpectraRep.
Datacasting has been in the background for most stations for a long time, but new technology, applications and funding sources have emerged. Recent pressure from the FCC to show value in keeping over-the-air spectrum have also increased interest in showing additional uses for that spectrum. This webinar will explore some of the places to look for funding and what kinds of services can be offered to better serve your community.
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The GRAMMY Foundation: Preserving Historically and Culturally Significant Audio
Established in 1989 by The Recording Academy, the GRAMMY Foundation supports projects that "cultivate the understanding, appreciation and advancement of the contribution of recorded music to American culture." Grants are made in two main areas:
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Archiving and Preservation Projects: Grants support efforts that advance the archiving and preservation of the music and recorded sound heritage of the Americas. The Archiving and Preservation area has two funding categories:
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Planning/Assessment and/or Consultation.
- Scientific Research Projects: Grants support research on the impact of music on the human condition. For example, the effects of music on mood and healing, and the well-being of music professionals.
The Foundation has a strong interest in preserving historically and culturally significant audio and has made grants to public radio stations, university archives, Native American tribes, museums and more.
Grants range up to approximately $40,000, though most are $20,000 or below.
Application information for the 2011 grant cycle will be posted here this month (June 2010).
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Listen to Our Conference Call with NEA
On Thursday, May 6, the APTS Grant Center held a conference call on the National Endowment for the Arts’ “Arts on Radio and Television” grant program. Through this program, the National Endowment for the Arts seeks to make the excellence and diversity of the arts widely available to the American public though nationally distributed television and radio programs. On this conference call, NEA Director of Media Arts, Ted Libbey, discussed the program and how stations can get involved.
Read more about this grant on the APTS Grant Center website. Note that the deadline for this grant application is September 2, 2010.
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Listen to Our Conference Call with USDA
On Thursday, May 6, the APTS Rural Services/Broadband Coalition, in conjunction with the APTS Grant Center, discussed the FY 2010 Public Television Digital Transition Grant Program (Rural Digital) with representatives from USDA’s Rural Utilities Service. This call served as an opportunity to learn more about the program and what the program administrators are looking for in the application process.
The deadline for applications is June 25, 2010. For additional information on the program, including the FY 2010 application guide and toolkit, please visit the APTS Grant Center website.
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Open Federal Funding Opportunities
Promise Neighborhoods
Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
Susan Harwood Training Grants Program
Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF)
Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations—Planning Grants and Implementation Grants
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Grant: Promise Neighborhoods
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Division: Office of Innovation and Improvement (OII)
Deadline: June 25, 2010
The purpose of the Promise Neighborhoods program is to support the development of plans for comprehensive neighborhood programs that will help combat the effects of intergenerational poverty, and improve education and life outcomes for children. In this first year of the program, projects will define a holistic approach to addressing intergenerational poverty in communities around the country. The project is modeled in part on the Harlem Children's Zone (HCZ), a New York-based nonprofit whose model has been replicated in other cities.
In this first year, the Department will make 20 awards for one year planning grants of $400,000 - $500,000 each.
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Grant: Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP)
Agency: National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)
Deadline: Limited reopening of the Comprehensive Community Infrastructure application for entities that have received waiver authority from the FCC to use the 700 MHz public safety broadband spectrum by May 19, 2010. Applications due July 1, 2010.
BTOP is designed to extend broadband access to unserved areas, improve access to underserved areas, and expand broadband access to a wide range of institutions and individuals, including vulnerable populations.
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Grant: Susan Harwood Training Grants Program
Agency: U.S. Department of Labor
Division: Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)
Deadline: July 2, 2010
The Susan Harwood Training Grant Program provides funds for programs to train employees and employers to recognize, avoid, and prevent safety and health hazards in their workplaces. There is approximately $8 million available for the capacity building program in 2010. Of that, $2 million is available for pilot grants and $6 million for developmental grants.
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Grant: Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF)
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Division: Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE)
Deadline: July 6, 2010
The U.S. Department of Educations’ Teacher Incentive Fund supports projects that develop and implement performance-based teacher and principal compensation systems in high-need schools. This grant seeks to improve student achievement by increasing teacher and principal effectiveness, reform teacher and principal compensation systems so that teachers and principals are rewarded for increases in student achievement, increase the number of effective teachers teaching poor, minority and disadvantaged students in hard-to-staff subjects and create sustainable performance-based compensation systems.
Anticipated funding for this grant is $400,000,000 for 60-80 awards ranging from $500,000 - $5,000,000.
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Grant: Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Division: Division of Public Programs
Deadline: July 28, 2010, for projects beginning January 2011. A second round of this grant competition will begin after the July 28 deadline. Applications for that round will be due on January 5, 2011.
Description: The Bridging Cultures through Film: International Topics program supports projects that examine international and transnational themes in the humanities through documentary films. These projects are meant to spark Americans’ engagement with the broader world by exploring one or more countries and cultures outside of the United States. Proposed documentaries must be analytical and deeply grounded in humanities scholarship.
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Grant: America's Historical and Cultural Organizations—Planning Grants and Implementation Grants
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Division: Public Programs
Deadline: August 18, 2010
America's Historical and Cultural Organizations grants support projects in the humanities that explore stories ideas, and beliefs that deepen our understanding of our lives and our world. The Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity and history in creative and new ways. NEH offers two categories of grants for America's Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants and Implementation Grants.
Planning awards range from $40,000 to $75,000. Implementation awards typically do not exceed $400,000.
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Questions? Please email or call Ellen Holloway: eholloway@apts.org, 202-654-4214, or Karen Spitzfaden: kspitzfaden@apts.org, 202-654-4207, or visit our website: www.apts.org/grantcenter
