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Two New Grant Opportunities: Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures and FRONTLINE'S Heat

Coming This Spring: Carrier

NFCB to Feature Community Engagement at Annual Conference

Harwood Tools Available Through NCO

Two New Grant Opportunities 

Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures

KQED is pleased to offer four $5,000 educational outreach station grants during Season II of Jean-Michel Cousteau: Ocean Adventures. The program looks at spectacular and largely inaccessible locales across the globe, and illuminates the need for sustainable management of the world's natural treasures. Grant recipients will showcase this unique series and share innovative resources with their communities.

Contact Andrea Swensrud at aswensrud@kqed.org for details. Apply online by Monday, Feb. 4 using the NCO PlanIT! tool.

Heat

FRONTLINE will award ten $7,500 production grants to support local outreach around Heat, a special two-hour presentation about global warming airing on April 22. Grant recipients will produce local programming that highlights the innovative ways their communities are combating climate change.

Submit your application through PlanIt! by Monday, Feb. 11. Questions can be directed to Sandy St. Louis at FRONTLINE by e-mail at sandy_st_louis@wgbh.org or phone (617) 300-5379.

Coming This Spring: Carrier

Sunday, April 27, PBS will premiere Carrier, a 10-part series that is the first of its kind. Carrier offers an unprecedented look at daily life on a United States aircraft carrier, the USS Nimitz, and the 5,300 navy men and women on board. The series is a "once-in-a-lifetime total immersion" into a world many of us have never imagined and will feel compelled to talk about.

Stations around the country are gearing up for community engagement around Carrier. Look for details about their plans in upcoming News Blasts and at the ncoengage.org Web site.

NFCB to Feature Community Engagement
at Annual Conference

In March, 300 members of the National Federation of Community Broadcasters (NFCB) will convene at their annual conference and discuss the importance of community engagement. Like their counterparts in public television, community-based radio stations are eager to create new ways to connect with their listeners off-air. NCO's Maria Alvarez-Stroud will present at the conference.

Visit http://www.nfcb.org/index.jsp to learn more about NFCB.

Harwood Tools Available Through NCO

NCO is working with The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation (THI) to help public broadcasting stations become more deeply involved in their local communities and ultimately more significant to them. As part of our work together, NCO is pleased to make some THI tools available online. Take a look at the first one in the series, the 3 A's of Public Life, to assess how your station is doing.