Overall Goals: Science cafes are live events that meet in casual venues like pubs, restaurants, and coffehouses for a moderated conversation between a scientist and the public. Many cafe events start off with a short video clip from NOVA scienceNOW.

Partners: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science

Activity Types: Science cafe events

Pipeline Initiatives: NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA

Overall Goals: Janesville follows the community of Janesville, Wisconsin for two years as it reinvents itself after losing its century-old General Motors plant forever.

Partners: Monster.com, WPT

Overall Goals: Minnesota Public Radio has created a variety of online interactive tools to help community members consider their personal spending choices during the current economy. Tools created include Transportation Savings Calculator, Car Cost Comparison Calculator, Health Care Reform and Small Business, and Miles per Gallon Calculator.

For example, the Health Care Reform and Small Business calculator has questions related to four provisions contained in one or both bills, allowing employers to determine how much of an impact health care reform will have on their livelihood.

The categories are:

* “Does your business qualify for a tax credit?”

* “Estimate the tax credit”

* "Are you subject to the Cadillac Tax?”

* “Will you be assessed under ‘pay or play’?”

Activity Types: Online educational tools

Overall Goals: KZMU-FM (Moab, Utah) - When local artist, Bruce Hucko had a youth-based engagement proposal, he turned to KZMU-FM. He and the station started the “Voices of Youth-Moab” initiative, ongoing since 2004, a radio project designed to connect teenagers with the history, folklore, people and issues of their culture and community. The results are reciprocal: participating youth learn about their community, while their community is shown hidden elements that make up its unique character.

Partners: Grand County High School

Overall Goals: Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) has recently implemented the Canton Community Outreach Project in Canton, Mississippi. MPB's goal is to impact this community of need by partnering with area businesses and civic organizations to provide community resources to families, schools and libraries. Through the Canton Project, MPB hopes to increase parental involvement in the lives of their children, improve literacy in early childhood to adult education, and provide useful resources to the community.

Partners: Discovery Center, Canton, MS, Professional Eyecare Associates/Optical 2000 in Canton, MS, Madison County WIN Job Center

Activity Types: MPB's Technology Integration Initiative, Between the Lions Activity Corner, MPB's Adult Education Resource Center, The Raising Readers Library Corner Project, Canton Community Resource Day, The Raising Readers Grocery Store Project, MPB's Parent Resource Center,

Overall Goals: WCTE works with Jammin at Hippie Jack's Productions to achieve its mission of outreach and quality programming by acting as a fiscal Sponsor to the program titled Jammin at Hippie Jack's.
Jammin at Hippie Jack's is a 13 part music television series that represents Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, and American roots musicians. This initiatives' goal is about revitalizing a musical genre, and recognizing talented singers, songwriters and instrumentalists whos music stems from a cultural era we want to preserve. Two years ago Director, Jack Stoddart built a stage on his farm in rural Crawford, Tennessee and named it ‘The Sundown Stage’. Stoddart's vision in building the stage was to help a vanishing genre of music not just survive, but thrive and to preserve an art form sometimes overshadowed by pop culture. The preservation of the Americana musician is the primary focus of the Jammin at Hippie Jack's Music TV series

Partners: Rock Creative Images, LLC, Jammin at Hippie Jack's Production

Pipeline Initiatives: Learning with Art21, Art21: Ignite discussion and inspire creative thinking

Overall Goals: The Arkansas Educational Television Network, working with a diverse group of Arkansas National and State Parks, will produce a comprehensive, multi-media initiative designed to maximize statewide engagement around Ken Burns's THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEAS documentaries airing in September of 2009. Paying special attention to Arkansas's under served youth; each production, outreach activity and new media project will encourage Arkansans to experience, enjoy and conserve our state's treasured natural resources.

Partners: University of Arkansas at Fayetteville - Larry Foley, Associate Professor, Arkansas Post National Memorial - Ed Wood, Superintendent, Little Rock Central National Historic Site - Robin White, Superintendent, Fort Smith National Memorial Site - Bill Black, Superintendent, Buffalo National River - Kevin Cheri, Superintendent, Pea Ridge National Military Park - John Scott, Superintendent, Arkansas Dept of Parks and Tourism - Richard Davies, Executive Director , Arkansas Archeological Survey - Dr. Ann Early, Arkansas State Archeologist, Arkansas U.S. Congressional Delegation, U of Ark. Libraries - Pryor Center for Arkansas Oral and Visual History, Hot Springs National Park - Jose Fernandez, Superintendent, Arkansas Chapter of The Nature Conservancy, WETA, Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe, Arkansas Forestry Commission - John T. Shannon, State Forester, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission - Joe Henderson, Executive Director, Arkansas Dept. of Heritage - Cathie Matthews, Executive Director, Arkansas Dept. of Education - Sheryl A. Norwood, Professional Development

Activity Types: AETN's Arkansas Parks Leadership Summit, AETN National/State Parks and the Ken Burns's NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA Sreenings and Panel Discussions, Countdown to Ken Burns's THE NATIONAL PARKS: AMERICA'S BEST IDEA Live broadcast, AETN Parks Initiative Parental Involvement Workshops, AETN Parks Initiative Professional Development for Arkansas Educators, AETN/Little Rock Central High School Family Day, Arkansas's National and State Parks Exhibit at the State Capitol, AETN Parks Initiative Kids Camps, AETN Parks Initiative Geo-Caching Project, Arkansas's National and State Parks Exhibit, Cooking on the Wild Side: Campfire Edition, "The Buffalo Flows" documentary, Exploring Arkansas with Chuck Dovish, Arkansas Kids Outdoors, On the Same Page,

Pipeline Initiatives: The National Parks: America's Best Idea, Our National Parks

Overall Goals: WXEL appreciates the opportunity to propose a special outreach initiative based on The National Parks: America's Best Idea. The WXEL studios are located in Palm Beach County, Florida near the northernmost portion of a unique national park---The Everglades; this portion of The Everglades National Park is found in western Boynton Beach at the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge. This wildlife refuge includes over 221 square miles (147,000+ acres) of Everglades habitat. It's home to the American alligator and to the endangered Everglades snail kite. In any given year, as many as 257 species of birds may use the refuge's diverse wetland habitats.

Thanks to enthusiastic staff at this large Refuge, WXEL TV/FM has been invited to partner with the Refuge for at least two key events early in 2009 plus for strategic activities during the rest of the year before the Fall 2009 premiere. Both WXEL and the Refuge have strong contacts with the School District of Palm Beach County and its public access channel, T.E.N. (The Education Network, Ch. 19-Comcast). Partnerships between these two organizations and also with National Park Trust plus through coordinating with key non-profits targeting diverse populations will be helpful in facilitating efforts to reach traditionally underserved audiences, including a diverse group of adults and families and also 4th, 5th, and 6th grade African Americans, Latinos, and Haitians among others from Title I schools. WXEL TV/FM will offer extensive cross-promotions including collaborations with local commercial radio stations targeting diverse audiences such as Hispanics and Haitians(and WXEL's two weekly news magazine shows will feature a segment), giving recognition to the Refuge and/or National Park Trust, the School District of Palm Beach County/T.E.N. and the non-profits as additional strategic partners while fostering feelings of stewardship toward the Refuge and The Everglades National Park--as well as other units and national parks in the NPS system--in new and diverse audiences.

Partners: ASPIRA-Palm Beach County, Hispanic Human Resouces Council of Palm Beach County, School District of Palm Beach County/T.E.N. - The Education Network, Ch. 19, Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, National Park Trust

Activity Types: PENDING: Ken Burns Visits the Refuge!, Campaign Kick-off: National Park Trust Boardmember Luncheon @ the Refuge , Title I Schools (4th/5th/6th grades) Field Trips to the Refuge by May 2009 and/or during Fall 2009 & Winter 2010 (up to 4 field trips-School District of PBC), WXEL web site: StoryShare; web modules ("Untold Stories" & "Park Makers"), Refuge's Annual Student Photography Contest, 10th Annual Everglades Day Festival at A.R.M. Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge

Pipeline Initiatives: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Overall Goals: The variety of land and seascapes within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park is found nowhere else in the world, and is perhaps the most comprehensive natural classroom available to students. However, with declining park attendance corresponding closely with the percentage drop in isle tourism, it has become evident that area locals, as well as the larger statewide community, have not taken advantage of the cultural, historical, environmental, and educational opportunities that the park provides. Therefore, PBS Hawaii, in partnership with Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, will organize outreach events aimed at renewing the local public’s interest in the park, especially reaching out to children and adults in underserved and disadvantaged communities.

Partners: Arizona Memorial Museum Association, Kilauea Military Camp (KMC), Hawaii Volcanoes National Park

Activity Types: Screening event at the Arizona Memorial Visitor's Center, Student excursion to Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Filming of Long Story Short, Filming of Island Insights,

Pipeline Initiatives: The National Parks: America's Best Idea

Overall Goals: The goal of KCTS 9 MY PARKS! initiative is to generate the experience of value, shared ownership and stewardship into the future for Washington’s youth, including historically under-represented in our State’s national park visitation patterns and underserved by the educational resources and programming they offer. A wide range of strategic partnerships and outreach activities and events are designed to specifically engage disenfranchised urban youth to participate in digital storytelling efforts documenting their MY PARKS! experiences.

Partners: Passages Northwest, King County Library System, Youth in Focus, YMCA YBOYS, Washington's National Park Units

Activity Types: The National Parks Screening Event, Washington's National Parks Digital Storytelling Workshop, Youth Screening Event & Celebration, Segment on Youth in Parks

Pipeline Initiatives: The National Parks: America's Best Idea