Every weekday morning, Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) presents Kids Commute, an interactive exploration of classical music centered around weekly themes such as mermaids, opera, and elephants, that are designed to educate and entertain our youngest listeners. We also explore ballets, their stories, and the music that goes along with them. This interactive radio experience delivers strategies for early childhood artistic development that can be easily replicated in a variety of genres.
This unique project offered our region’s storytellers the platform needed to disseminate their films to a new audience through broadcast distribution of their finished films. The initiative served filmmakers from the Keys to the Treasure Coast with an audience reach of over 6.3 million thus deepening the understanding of ourselves and our neighbors.
The Million Minute Challenge was an initiative to get people of all ages and backgrounds in Lehigh Valley reading. We asked our community to come together to read 1,000,000 minutes in March 2020, Reading Awareness Month, and what resulted was a fun, engaging, exciting, audience-captivating event that surpassed its goals and put reading at the center.
KPBS launched the “Explore” program in 2012 as an experiment to grow the station’s library of local programs while cultivating new, young and diverse talent. Every two years, KPBS opens a community-wide call for content ideas and offers seed funding to create local TV shows, web series and podcasts. The producers retain ownership of their project and are responsible for raising the extra funds needed to stay afloat. The program has spawned four podcasts and more than a dozen TV and web series.
Beginning in 2017 Boise State Radio decided to take a different spin on Giving Tuesday. Instead of focusing on the station, we decided to celebrate other local nonprofits. Local residents nominated their favorite local nonprofits, and then the station awarded a $1,000 underwriting package to randomly selected winners
Insider Louisville created a database of local civic leaders to measure their community impact. Our database analyzed over 3,600 individuals in the greater Louisville area. Each individual was given a civic engagement score. Criteria included but not limited to: nonprofit board participation, founding a company, charity support, elected to office, networking group membership, and media exposure. Insider Louisville published a report to honor the top 100 ranked civic leaders in a report, “Insider Louisville’s Top 100: Change-makers and groundbreakers.”
WKNO’s The SPARK is a monthly half-hour interview program highlighting efforts in community service and technological and collaborative innovation by nonprofits, corporations, local businesses, and educational organizations. The SPARK is produced in partnership with cityCURRENT, a privately-funded organization comprised of local businesses focused on media along with philanthropy and volunteerism to provide a positive influence in the Mid-South. The SPARK Awards is an annual presentation honoring achievement in thirteen categories nominated by the public and judged by an independent committee.
Discover Classical’s Young Talent Search and Rising Stars Gala is the station’s annual spotlight on talented young classical musicians in our listening area. Applicants submit a solo performance, and through a blind audition, a group of 5-7 musicians are honored annually. Winners receive a prize package including an honorarium, gifts, an on-air interview on Discover Classical, and a chance to perform at the Rising Stars Gala.
The KVIE Art Auction is an annual, live-televised fundraising event. Over 250 pieces of artwork are donated by artists throughout the Sacramento region, curated from hundreds of submissions. Local artists receive print, on-air, and web recognition. 1 week prior to the live auction, we hold a Preview Gala where all the artwork is on display. Jury awards are announced, as well as the winner of the framing competition.
