Giving Tuesday
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Instead of focusing on ourselves for Giving Tuesday, we chose to celebrate other local nonprofits. People nominated their favorite local nonprofits and then we awarded $1000 in underwriting to randomly selected winners.
KVMR – Ready to Respond
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In November of 2018, KVMR raised over $43,000 dollars in just one day for the survivors of the catastrophic Camp Fire in Paradise, CA located just an hour and a half away from the station. In addition to KVMR’s commitment to supporting their neighbors through efforts like this, the station is also the official Emergency Broadcaster in the region. During summer 2019, a team of 10 broadcasters were trained to take the lead in case of emergency.
Youth Reporting Institute
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Each summer, WUNC hires a diverse team of high schoolers, gives them microphones and trains them to tell us stories about their community. It’s been a majority-minority reporting team in each of its 8 years. Youth Reporters are paid, and for many, this is their first job that doesn’t involve a deep-fat fryer or manual labor. WUNC staff host weekly career development sessions (with pizza and soda) to talk about working in public media. In 2018, youth produced stories about mass shootings, mental health, housing insecurity and why so many Hispanics in our community drop out of high school.
Measuring Pesticide Drift In Central Illinois
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The Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting used a sensor-journalism project to better connect with its audiences in small rural communities and help explore an issue of concern to these communities. Through a partnership with Illinois Humanities, our engagement fellow at the Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting reached out to several agriculture communities in Central Illinois to help us measure and report on pesticide drift using passive air samplers during the 2018 growing season.
On the Road with NET
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NET is a statewide joint licensee in Nebraska, so it’s a bit daunting to try to connect face to face with our various audiences. In summer 2016, we started a station-wide initiative where we take NET “On the Road” in the spring and fall of each year with PBS kids screenings/activities, radio show, television screenings and town talks.
HPPR Radio Readers Book Club
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HPPR Radio Readers Book Club is an on-air, online community of readers exploring themes of common interest to those who live and work on the High Plains. This free book club allows readers from throughout the High Plains to read books with related themes and discuss them online and, at the end of each book series, live on the radio. This project is a significant collaboration among 50 volunteers. Currently, the club has 175 members from 15 states.
Young Talent Search/Rising Stars
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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.
Public Radio on Tap: Water Quality
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Iowa Public Radio began our Public Radio on Tap series in October 2017 to bring people together over a beer and facilitate honest conversation about tough topics. Water quality is a contentious issue in the state, increasingly so as urban populations grow and rural populations decrease.
Education Programs: Radio Camp & Radio 101
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In just one week, Radio Camp students learn the basics of audio production and produce an audio story ready to air on 88.5 WFDD. Radio 101 works with high-school students interested in audio storytelling.
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.
Deskovered: Live Music from Tiny Desk Contest Entrants
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WBHM partnered with a local music venue to host a review of five bands from the Birmingham area who had all entered NPR’s recent Tiny Desk Contest.
Community Conversation on Mental Health
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WFDD hosts community conversations on topics that impact local residents. Using a Hearken-powered web module, listeners voted for mental health to be the focus of one such conversation. WFDD reporters covered relevant stories in the days leading up to the public event, during which listeners had round table discussions with one another. WFDD reporters solicited questions for follow-up coverage and connected interested listeners directly with the stories that came out.
KUER Sound Booth
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The KUER Sound Booth brings radio production to the community and introduces and excites local people about listening to and recording their own audio. The mobile sound booth structure, complete with audio recording equipment, travels to various community and station events. Kids and adults are invited to record a personal story or news segment, which is then emailed to them and used in station promotional material and fund drives.
Side Effects Reporting: Opioids and Minorities in Indiana
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Side Effects is a public health journalism initiative of WFYI Public Media in Indianapolis, in partnership with the Indiana Minority Health Coalition, to explore the issue of the opioid epidemic being presented as a “white” problem and its implications, like disparities in access to treatment, criminal sentencing, and even the language used to describe the addicted. The project includes a documentary, a panel discussion, and more.
KUOW’s “Ask A…” Project
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KUOW’s “Ask A…” project is a community engagement initiative to promote empathy and understanding with groups that have been “othered” by media or politics. It features person-to-person conversation events where a group of “askers” have consecutive eight-minute conversations with a group of “answerers,” followed by a group discussion and a shared meal. Events have included Muslims, Trump supporters, transgender people, journalists, foster parents, immigrants, gun owners, and Special Olympics athletes.
WDAV’s Small Batch Concert Series
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WDAV Classical Public Radio has partnered with a local brewery in a trendy section of Charlotte to intersect community and chamber music in a fun and relaxed atmosphere. We bring in a chamber ensemble to perform, and admission to the event is completely free and open to the public. Each performance seeks to highlight younger, emerging artists as well as local talent whenever possible.
Beyond the Ballot
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At its core, “Beyond the Ballot” (BTB) is a community engagement project.
With BTB, WPR is turning our traditional reporting process on its head. Instead of reporters and editors deciding what’s important to cover this election season, we’re asking hundreds of people what they think.
Summer of Music
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“Summer of Music” provides live, musical programming via WNIN FM from four local music festivals staged in our listening area during the summer. During Labor Day weekend, WNIN FM airs taped compilations of each music festival across each evening of the holiday weekend under the banner “Summer of Music.”
More to Say podcast
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“More to Say” is a conversation between a journalist and a host that elaborates on a local news story, enriched with previously unheard tape and music. “More to Say” asserts that local stories deserve the same attention as national news.