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Repository Pick: WIPB's Disaster Preparedness
From Swine Flu to wild fires, communities are compelled to think about emergency preparedness. What is your station's role in helping your community respond to emergencies? For one model, look at WIPB's Disaster Preparedness Training.
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My Source Highlights: WHRO, Norfolk, VA and KRNN, Juneau, AK
This WHRO on-air spot captures members of the Walcott family explaining how the station's food education project helped them lead healthier lives. To this mother and daughter, WHRO is their source for "info on being healthy."
KRNN's audio spot features a senior volunteer who confesses her excitement about training as a radio host. She says the experience opened her world and connected her to the community.
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In This Issue |
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We expanded and updated our collection of online resources to support the CPB Public Service Economic Response Initiative that helps stations serve communities. Here's a taste of what you'll find.
WEDU Project Offers Hope
Through WEDU's Blue Sky Project, Tampa-area professionals without jobs can take on meaningful work at the station to network and fill the hole created by unemployment. Read the story.
Engagement Ideas and Resources:
Connect your community to resources like this site about new educational opportunities for unemployed workers and an eligibility assessment tool for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Contrary to what some economists expected, the home-foreclosure crisis has reached rural America. To learn how to serve those families, read the Wall Street Journal article.
Help community members decipher today's economic terms by linking to NPR's Planet Money Glossary.
Grant Activity
Thirty-seven stations, including radio, television and joint licensees, were recently awarded Engaging Communities on the Economy Grants. To gain ideas for your own efforts, click here for the station list and summaries about what they plan to accomplish.
CPB awarded 34 Facing the Mortgage Crisis grants to public radio and television stations in markets hardest hit by foreclosures. Check out the map to see the markets involved.
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Pipeline LIVE: Focusing on the Economy |
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Pipeline LIVE 2009 will give you fresh ideas for supporting your community through the economic crisis. On July 15 from 1:30 - 3 p.m. ET, the videoconference and online event will showcase models and resources on all platforms, and demonstrate how you can efficiently apply them to your station's economic work. Register now.
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Gauge Your Station's Connectivity to Community |
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More than ever, our communities need us to connect them with valuable resources and each other. To do that, stations need to know what place they want to occupy in the community. The first step is understanding your current role. Discover a simple NCME process that starts with an online Diagnostic Survey and an internal conversation you can use to better understand and strengthen your station's connectivity to your community. Learn more about the tools.
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Upcoming Peer Webinar on Connectivity |
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Join us May 27 at Noon ET for the Webinar: Gauging Your Station's Connectivity to Community. Learn to use new NCME tools to better understand and strengthen your station's connectivity to your community. Register now.
Please note the special Noon Eastern start time.
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Grant opportunities |
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Art21 is offering stations three $4,000 outreach mini-grants to help facilitate in-depth, community-based programs to promote an appreciation and understanding of the art and artists of our time. Stations may apply in PlanIT!
Thirteen/WNET has two major initiatives in the works:
 The Music Intinct: Science and Song, a two-hour documentary about the science of music, will air on June 24th with outreach activity continuing throughout the 2009-2010 school year. Thirteen will award nine grants of $10,000 each to stations partnering with local museums, educators, or after-school programs. Deadline for application is June 12. See the NCME Pipeline to learn more.
Thirteen will award five grants of $10,000 each to station/museum partnerships for The Human Spark, a three-part science series hosted by Alan Alda. Broadcast will happen sometime this fall. Application deadline is Monday, June 1. Visit the NCME Pipeline for details.
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Flu Resources for Today and the Future |
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Though fear about the Swine Flu has eased, now's the time to help your community prepare for future outbreaks. Visit our collection of resources and tools for ideas about services you can provide now and in the months ahead.
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Planet Forward Web Sequel |
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 America is having an important conversation about climate change and our energy future. Planet Forward's Web-TV-Web conversation has engaged the White House and your station can invite viewers to join the conversation by embedding the Planet Forward Web sequel in your station site. Read more.
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The Win-Win of Engagement and Major Gifts |
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Learn more about how engagement benefits your station's major gifts work. Listen to a free recording of a recent DEI Leadership for Philanthropy Webinar produced by National Center for Media Engagement (NCME) and titled Deeper Engagement with Your Community. The Webinar includes presentations from NCME, Maryland Public Television, and Northshore Public Radio (WTIP).
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