APTS Grant Center Funding Newsletter-September 2010
September 16, 2010
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APTS Launches Redesigned Website
Join Our Webinar on Researching Grant Opportunities
Please Respond to the APTS Grant Center Evaluation
Local Foundations and Local News
EPA Announces New Workforce Development Grants
NSF Announces Climate Change Education Partnership Awardees
APTS Grant Center Submits Comments to the U.S. Department of Education
Guide to NASA Funding
Summary of Models for Funding Local News Webinar
Funding Success Story Template on ShareiT!
Station in the Spotlight
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APTS Launches Redesigned Website
The Association of Public Television Stations (APTS) is proud to announce the launch of their redesigned website. The Grant Center portion of the website has funding opportunities and resources to help you find and apply for grants. You can request a password here.
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Join Our Webinar on Researching Grant Opportunities
Join us Thursday, September 23 at 2:00 p.m. EDT/11:00 a.m. PDT for a tour of the new APTS Grant Center website. Learn what resources the Grant Center offers and how to research funding opportunities.
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Please Respond to the APTS Grant Center Evaluation
In accordance with our contract with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, we have hired an independent firm, Brighter Strategies LLC, to evaluate the APTS Grant Center. They sent surveys to station general managers last week. If you haven’t filled out the survey, please do, or pass it along to the representative at your station that you feel is best situated to evaluate our program.
We appreciate your time and effort in assisting us with this important process. The information from the surveys will be used to ensure the APTS Grant Center provides stations the best and most relevant information possible to help you find grant funding. Thank you in advance for your time.
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Local Foundations and Local News
With the decline of traditional news outlets, local foundations are beginning to increase their investment in information and media. According to a study released in July 2010 by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, community and "place-based" foundations are increasingly "playing a leadership role in meeting their [communities'] information needs."
The Knight Foundation surveyed 928 foundations and got responses from 135 of them. One-third (34 percent) of all respondents reported that they had increased their grants to information and media projects over the past three years. The same percentage expected that their funding in this area will grow in coming years.
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EPA Announces New Workforce Development Grants
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is creating a new grant program that will be called the Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants Program. The program replaces the EPA's Brownfields Job Training program and will likely be a very similar program. The Brownfields Job Training program funded recruitment, job training and job placement for predominantly low-income and minority, unemployed and under-employed residents of communities impacted by hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants. By equipping people with the skills needed to perform green jobs, the Brownfields Job Training program funded environmental contamination reduction and the building of a more sustainable community for the future. It is likely that the goal of the new Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grants Program will be largely the same.
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NSF Announces Climate Change Education Partnership Awardees
On September 10, 2010, National Science Foundation (NSF) announced the 15 awardees of their Climate Change Education Partnership (CCEP) program. The goal of this program is to connect climate scientists, experts in theories on how people learn science, and formal and informal education experts to increase public understanding of global climate change and preparing the next generation of scientists and educators.
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APTS Grant Center Submits Comments to the U.S. Department of Education
The APTS Grant Center, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the Public Broadcasting Service submitted comments on the U.S. Secretary of Education's proposed priorities for future U.S. Department of Education discretionary grant programs on Tuesday, September 7, 2010. We highlighted the fantastic work that stations are doing around education, suggested that the Department encourage the use of all available media technology by applicants and expressed concern over the elimination of the Ready To Teach program.
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APTS Grant Center staff recently met with the Associate Administrator for Education at NASA to learn more about the operating and funding structure within the agency and find opportunities for public broadcasting stations to be involved. Broadly, the NASA Education Department has four goals: to inspire, engage, educate and employ. More specifically, the Education Department’s current priorities are on spurring innovation and better preparing teachers. All NASA education programming is grounded in current NASA projects and missions. While NASA values STEM education, agency funding only supports projects that are created around work that NASA scientists are doing.
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Summary of Models for Funding Local News Webinar
On August 24, 2010, the Grant Center hosted a webinar to discuss funding opportunities for local news.
The presenters included:
• Kathy Merritt, Senior Director, Radio Program Investments, CPB
• Frank Morris, News Director, KCUR
• Jayme Burke, Director of Foundation Relations, KQED
• Debbie Zambetti, Associate Director, Foundation Relations, KQED
• Amy Dominguez-Arms, Program Director, California Democracy, The James Irvine Foundation
• Moderated by Amie Klempnauer Miller, DEI Foundation Development Advisor
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Funding Success Story Template on ShareiT!
The APTS Grant Center and PBS Connect have been working together to develop a template on ShareiT!, where stations can share their funding success stories with colleagues. To share a story about a grant your station has received, log in to PBS Connect, click on “Systemwide Management” on the left hand navigation, “ShareiT!” on the left hand navigation and “Share something!” in the top middle of the screen. In the first drop down menu for “This story is about…” select “funding” and share away!
We hope stations will use the tool as a way to disseminate information about their funding success throughout the system and to learn from one another. The APTS Grant Center will use the information provided to keep grant research relevant and improve our services generally.
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In order to showcase the projects that stations are working on and provide examples of successful funding and partnering initiatives, the Grant Center newsletter will highlight one station initiative each month. This month, the story is from Illinois Public Media. Their C-U Fit Families community engagement initiative is the result of more than two years of relationship-building.
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Open Federal Funding Opportunities
American Archive Content Inventory Project
Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreements
Video Description Research and Development Center
Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants
Choice Neighborhoods
Scholarly Editions and Translations
Museums for America
Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
National Digital Newspaper Program
Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award
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Grant: American Archive Content Inventory Project
Agency: Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB)
Deadline: September 7, 2010 to January 31, 2011. Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis.
Description: The television and radio archives of American public media are scattered throughout the country. To ensure that audio and visual materials are safe and accessible, and to help set priorities for the restoration, preservation and digitization of public media's legacy, CPB is conducting a system-wide inventory of public media assets. The American Archive Inventory Initiative will continue through May 2011, and will be the only full-scale, comprehensive inventory of public media assets.
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Grant: Environmental Justice Cooperative Agreements in support of communities directly affected by the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Division: Office of Environmental Justice
Deadline: October 4, 2010
Description: This EPA notice announces the availability of funds and solicits proposals from eligible entities that will assist local communities facing environmental justice challenges in addressing and adapting community responses to local long-term environmental and/or public health issues as they relate directly to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Funding is limited to projects conducted within areas of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas that were directly affected by the Horizon Deepwater oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
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Grant: Video Description Research and Development Center
Agency: U.S. Department of Education
Division: Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services (OSERS)
Deadline: October 12, 2010
Description: To ensure that children who are blind or visually impaired have access to all educational program content, the Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) provides competitive grant funds to support the video description of educational television programs.
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Grant: Indoor Environments: Reducing Public Exposure to Indoor Pollutants
Agency: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
Division: Region 9, which consist of the states of California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada and the Pacific Islands (U.S. territories of Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands and other unincorporated U.S. Pacific possessions). EPA Region 9 is the lead region for the Navajo Nation; accordingly, this RFP addresses work anywhere in the Navajo Nation, regardless of state boundaries.
Deadline: October 18, 2010. An optional intent to apply email is due October 7, 2010.
Description: EPA Region 9 is soliciting proposals from eligible entities for projects in Region 9 to support demonstration, training, outreach and/or education projects to reduce exposure to indoor pollutants for K-12 schools and homes. These projects are expected to achieve environmental results in one or more indoor air quality priority areas. Proposals may address more than one area.
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Grant: Choice Neighborhoods
Agency: U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
Deadline: October 26, 2010
Description: Choice Neighborhoods will employ a comprehensive approach to community development centered on housing transformation. The program aims to transform neighborhoods of poverty into viable mixed-income neighborhoods with access to economic opportunities by revitalizing severely distressed public and assisted housing, and investing and leveraging investments in well-functioning services, effective schools and education programs, public assets, public transportation and improved access to jobs.
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Grant: Scholarly Editions and Translations
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Division: Division of Research Programs
Deadline: October 28, 2010
Description: Scholarly Editions and Translations grants support the preparation of editions and translations of pre-existing texts and documents that are currently inaccessible or available in inadequate editions. These grants support full-time or part-time activities for periods of at least one year up to a maximum of three years.
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Grant: Museums for America
Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)
Deadline: November 1, 2010
Description: Museums for America is the Institute’s largest grant program for museums, supporting projects and ongoing activities that build museums’ capacity to serve their communities. Museums for America grants strengthen a museum’s ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance the institution’s mission and strategic goals. Fiscal year 2011 funding will support projects and activities that strengthen museums as active resources for lifelong learning and as important institutions in the establishment of livable communities. Grants can fund either new or ongoing museum activities and programs, such as improvement of institutional infrastructure; planning; management of collections; public access; professional development; purchase of equipment or services; research and scholarship; public programming and exhibitions; training or efforts of museums to upgrade and integrate new technologies into their overall institutional effectiveness.
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Grant: Public Education Efforts to Increase Solid Organ Donation
Agency: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
Division: Division of Transplantation; Healthcare Systems Bureau
Deadline: December 1, 2010
Description: Since 1999, the Division of Transplantation has supported 84 research projects to test specific strategies for their effectiveness in increasing public commitment to become organ donors. Funded projects support public education and outreach interventions by increasing the number and rate of individuals who choose to be donors. The specific purpose of this two year grant program is to promote broader implementation and evaluation of interventions that work to increase public commitment to solid organ donation. Applications for this program must propose a project to implement one of the following public outreach interventions: (1) replication of empirically validated interventions and (2) combined community outreach interventions.
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Grant: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Division: Preservation and Access
Deadline: December 1, 2010, for projects beginning September 2011
Description: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections. Libraries, archives, museums and historical organizations across the country are responsible for collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art and historical objects that facilitate research, strengthen teaching and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities. To preserve and ensure continued access to such collections, institutions must implement preventive conservation measures, which encompass managing relative humidity, temperature, light and pollutants in collection spaces, providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections and safeguarding collections from theft and from natural and man-made disasters. As they strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, cultural repositories are increasingly interested in sustainable preservation strategies.
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Grant: National Digital Newspaper Program
Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH)
Division: Division of Preservation and Access
Deadline: January 13, 2010, for projects beginning July 2011
Description: NEH is soliciting proposals from institutions to participate in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP is creating a national, digital resource of historically significant newspapers published between 1836 and 1922, from all the states and U.S. territories. This searchable database will be permanently maintained at the Library of Congress and be freely accessible on the website, Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. An accompanying national newspaper directory of bibliographic and holdings information on the website directs users to newspaper titles available in all types of formats. During the course of its partnership with NEH, the Library of Congress will also digitize and contribute to the NDNP database a significant number of newspaper pages drawn from its own collections.
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Grant: Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award
Agency: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Division: National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA)
Deadline: May 25, 2011. Applications may be submitted beginning on April 25, 2011.
Description: The purpose of the Science Education Drug Abuse Partnership Award (SEDAPA) is to fund the development and evaluation of innovative model programs and materials for enhancing knowledge and understanding of neuroscience and the neurobiological mechanisms of drug abuse and addiction among K-12 students, the general public, health care practitioners and other groups.
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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.
