Looking Up Podcast

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Looking Up is a locally produced podcast created and distributed by Cincinnati Public Radio. Looking Up brings listeners the latest astronomical discoveries, interesting personalities from the science and astronomy worlds and two rotating features in a fun, quick-paced format. Our hosts talk about the planets, stars, the universe and science and technology, plus answer questions from kids and respond to “crank file” correspondences from the Observatory. They throw in some pop culture to bring it all down to Earth.

WQXR’s Music In Schools

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WQXR chose six elementary schools to participate in a series of themed interactive chamber music concerts in Spring 2018. Two concerts were presented in each school in partnership with Decoda, an affiliate ensemble of Carnegie Hall. All six schools previously received over 10 instruments through the WQXR Instrument Drive and have well-established, rigorous elementary level music programs.

Heart 2 Heart Breakfast Series

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The Heart 2 Heart Breakfast series linked event participants who share a passion for service to the people of the community to each other, support, services, resources and the station. The Heart 2 Heart Breakfast series is now a year-old initiative designed to promote, showcase, and connect non-profits and grassroots organizations doing good work in the Triangle. 

Insider Louisville’s Top 100: Change-makers and groundbreakers

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Insider Louisville created a database of local civic leaders to measure their community impact. Each individual was given a civic engagement score. Criteria included but was 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.”

To Foster Change

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To Foster Change is PBS SoCal’s initiative to raise awareness around the systemic and personal challenges Los Angeles foster youth face and overcome every day, while providing opportunities for youth to take control of their own stories. The station partners with over 30 social service organizations to support and encourage caregivers, share positive stories, create a space to brainstorm new approaches to supporting youth, and train young adults in media arts.

African Americans: The Las Vegas Experience

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African Americans: The Las Vegas Experience allows viewers to discover the momentous events that defined the African American experience in Las Vegas throughout the Civil Rights era. These events altered the city’s history and changed thousands of lives. Our story introduces individuals who are connected to these events and to each other.

Be Well Health Network

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In order to expand the reach and impact  of its health content to low-income and underserved audiences, ideastream partnered with a Federally Qualified Health Center to distribute ideastream’s locally-produced three-hour healh video compilation throughout the Center’s five clinics. The initiative is called the Be Well Health Network.

The SPARK and The SPARK Awards

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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 80+ local businesses focused on moments and media along with philanthropy and volunteerism to “power the GOOD” and provide a positive influence in the Mid-South.

Working Capital

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“Working Capital” is a business show about entrepreneurism, innovation and creative management techniques. Topeka is the Capital of Kansas, so the title is a play-on-words. KTWU serves 39 counties in northeast Kansas including western Missouri; this gives the show a broad spectrum of businesses, corporations and individuals to profile on the show. The show is thirty minutes and typically profiles two business entrepreneurs during each show.

Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street Initiative

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The Arkansas Educational Television Network (AETN) produced an Emmy-winning documentary on the rise and fall of Little Rock, Arkansas’s successful yet segregated African-American business district (1940-50’s), using a historic building in the district known as the Dreamland Ballroom as a focal point. AETN has built dozens of community partnerships; held educational screenings, panels discussions, and workshops; and conducted riveting community dialogues on diversity and race relations throughout 2018 that will undoubtedly continue.

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Community in Unity (2018 Winner)

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Community in Unity is a solutions journalism project and event series from Alaska Public Media to begin critical and thoughtful dialogue between different people. APM works with community partners to invite people inside homeless shelters, community centers, prisons, and TV studios for recorded conversations about topics that are affecting them. Topics have ranged from race and identity to mental health, immigration, and incarceration.

North Country Public Radio In Your Town (North Country At Work) (2018 Finalist)

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North Country at Work (NC@W) has been collecting photographs and audio content that tell historic and contemporary stories of people at work, town by town, across the vast rural geography of New York State served by North Country Public Radio. NC@W is now returning to the featured towns, setting up photo exhibits, and hosting work-related story slams, which are recorded and added to the NC@W permanent archive.

KQED’s Youth Takeover of the News

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Over the course of one week, stories pitched and reported by high school students across the Bay Area could be heard on nine of KQED’s news programs and podcasts. To collect and curate these stories, KQED staff collaborated with a pilot group of ten local high school journalism classes over two months.

Reading Marathon

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KUED hosts a Reading Marathon Kickoff in conjunction with the Salt Lake Public Library during the STEM Festival. The kickoff party invites families to pick up a Reading Log, receive free books, meet favorite PBS Kids characters and participate in engaging Science, Technology, Engineering and Math activities. In an effort to reach a wide geographic population, KUED utilizes partnering organizations to distribute Reading Marathon information.

Louisiana Young Heroes Awards

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The LPB Louisiana Young Hero Awards annually honors students in grades 7-12 who excel in the classroom, serve their local communities and demonstrate great personal courage in overcoming adversity.

Cooperative Collaboration

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Small non-profits and small for-profit businesses have a lot in common. In Central Texas in the summer, none of us has enough business! We chose to take advantage of this fact and began collaborating with several other non-profits and small businesses this spring and summer for survival during a difficult time. We found willing partners for our “Cooperative Collaboration” experiment.

Richland Source's community baby shower gave families an opportunity to get health information from local organizations including Richland Pregnancy Services

Richland Source Community Baby Shower

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Richland Source hosted a community baby shower as a way for the local community to engage with solutions journalism work about infant mortality. Approximately 20 community organizations and 500 attendees came together to learn about resources and educational materials available to help with having a safe and healthy pregnancy and raising a healthy and happy baby.

Student Intersections

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Because of mutual interest in the economy of north central Ohio and the role youth will play in the region’s future, Richland Source teamed up with Interlocal (a Mansfield-based nonprofit) to hold an event where Richland-area high school students and visiting students could meet and learn about each other’s communities. The one-time, half-day program, called “Student Intersections,” facilitated conversation about the Rust Belt’s changing economy, how identity relates to place and what young people can do to create change.

Versify Podcast & Community Events

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WPLN News’ Versify bridges the many communities of Middle Tennessee. The podcast team works hand-in-hand with the community to enable personal narrative storytelling and the documentation of local histories through poetry.

SD.Net

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SD.Net is a service of South Dakota Public Broadcasting. SD.net furthers SDPB’s mission by providing citizens with live and on-demand access to hearings and floor debate of the South Dakota Legislature, Public Utilities Commission Meetings, other Boards & Commissions, Supreme Court Hearings, SDHSAA Championship events, and many, many more types of events. We offer audio and video webcast services to state agencies, boards and commissions, the state legislature, and for hire.