NCO NewsBlast


March 7, 2007

THE WAR Outreach Grants Announced

THE WAR Outreach Grants have been announced, with positive results for the 116 stations who applied. The announcement can be found at: http://www.weta.org/warproject/



NCO Story Collection Training: THE WAR & Beyond
Attached to PBS Showcase

NCO is offering a training session to recipients of THE WAR grants to provide tools and assist stations in collection of WWII veteran stories. The training will be held May 18, 2007 at the Hyatt Regency in Dallas the day before PBS Showcase begins. Click here to download PDF draft agenda.

Travel Grants are available in the amount of $300 to help defray travel and lodging costs for this training and Showcase. These 80 travel grants are available only to public televison station recipients of THE WAR grants. Click here to apply for a travel grant.

There is no fee for the training day and PBS has established a special one-day Showcase rate for NCO training registrants. Registration information for both the training and PBS Showcase is available on the NCO Website at: https://www.uwex.edu/nco/reg_start.cfm.



PlanIT! Getting Simpler and More Flexible

In December, we asked for feedback about your experience with PlanIT!. We received a great response. You told us PlanIT! is a useful tool that could be more user-friendly and flexible for your various needs.

In the coming months, we will upgrade PlanIT! By late summer, we'll launch a new version that will address your comments we received and add new features. We are assembling a user group to help inform us in that process. Currently, Amy Shaw at KETC, Beth Spezia at WSIU, and Chris Seifert at Montana PBS have agreed to work with us.

We continue to appreciate your input as we move forward with PlanIT!.



CEI Informational Grant Call Streamed
on the NCO Web site

CPB's Community Engagement Initiative Grant Call was held on Feb. 28, 2007 and provided stations an opportunity to learn and ask questions about the station grants for CPB's Community Engagement Initiative (CEI).

Call Presenters:
Cheryl Head, CPB
Rich Harwood, The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
Maria Alvarez Stroud, NCO

Visit this link to listen to the call:
http://nationaloutreach.org/OutreachLibrary/Streaming/audiocalls.htm



NCO's overriding goal is to assist public broadcasting stations to provide meaningful community engagement locally, helping to foster new and deepen existing community partnerships.



 


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