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Plan and Share Your Reading Rainbow Activities in PlanIT! NCO to Offer Community Engagement Innovation Grants Promoting Your Good Work, from NCO & NETA What's New on ncoENGAGE.org: Updating Your Station Info | |||||||||||
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NCO and the Reading Rainbow Young Writers and Illustrators Contest are teaming up to offer stations the opportunity to plan your Reading Rainbow activities in PlanIT! It's a great way to organize and track your efforts, and then share your ideas with others by posting to NCO's Engagement Repository. For the station Contest sign-up form and Contest details click here. |
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NCO to Offer Community Engagement NCO will soon offer Community Engagement Innovation Grants to help stations accelerate their community engagement efforts. Grants will support station staff attendance at The Harwood Institute's Public Innovators Lab in March, as well as a follow-up meeting with additional coaching, guidance and support in implementing ideas learned at the Lab with NCO. Look for a formal grant announcement in the weeks ahead. |
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Promoting Your Good Work, from NCO & NETA Learn tips from your peers about creating stories of impact that get noticed within your station and in your community. Promoting Your Good Work, a professional development conference call , is jointly sponsored by NCO and NETA. Join us to discover a powerful way to communicate the results of your engagement initiatives.
All stations are invited to participate. Register online at the NETA Web site |
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In collaboration with CPB, NCO awarded grants to 62 television and radio stations to support use of My Source tools for telling their stories. The funds will help recipients gather impact stories from their communities through online story collection or find local "ambassadors" to share their personal stories in support of the station. For a list of the grantees, visit www.ncoENGAGE.org |
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What's New on ncoENGAGE: Updating Your Station Info You control the information listed for your station on the ncoENGAGE Web site. To update contact info, title or anything else in that section, simply log in and make the change. You're also free to revise the staff listed on your station's page. Perhaps one of your co-workers would benefit from using the Community Engagement Repository? Add them to the list and we'll send them a password to get in. Check it out at www.ncoENGAGE.org |
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Tap into the PBS KIDS Brand for Your Engagement Events For those of you managing educational outreach, PBS Communications has a new PBS KIDS Events page on PBS Connect. You'll find more than 100 tools, including downloadable theme songs, activity pages and contact information for PBS KIDS characters. There are two ways to view the page:
The site will become even more peer-based as stations weigh in over time. E-mail materials or questions to Mark O'Leary maoleary@pbs.org and cc: ppiga@pbs.org. |
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Story of the Month: Kids with Asthma Can! "Dear Buster, I saw the play today. I learned that a lot of people have asthma. Thanks for showing me I'm not the only one in the world." Karla, a grade-school youth, wrote these words after seeing Buster Has Asthma, a play developed for the WGBH-led Boston Asthma Management Campaign. Created in partnership with Children's Hospital Boston and other area community organizations, the city-wide campaign educated families about common asthma triggers and effective management of childhood asthma. Parents reported that activities like the play normalized asthma for their children and helped them feel better about having it. Learn more about Buster Has Asthma and other campaign activities at www.wgbh.org and check out this video submitted by two young participants of the Postcards film festival: www.experiencejournal.com
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