WXPN/Musicians on Call/Friday Free at Noon/XPoNential Music Festival

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Over a decade ago, we launched several local initiatives that are still paying dividends: Musicians On Call, that sends local artists and guides to the bedsides of hospital patients. Friday Free at Noon concerts: we are the 500-show mark with hundreds attending each week. And Finally, our biggest, our summer XPoNential Music Festival with 30 bands over 3 days along the Delaware River waterfront in New Jersey. We call it a gathering of the tribe.

414 Music

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Radio Milwaukee has the mission to foster community engagement through music and stories. A pillar of this mission is to provide a platform for local musicians to share their work with an engaged and supportive listener base. Key pieces: 414 Music Live a weekly live performance by local artists in front of a live audience, that is broadcast and streamed live; the annual Radio Milwaukee Music Awards; and 414music.fm, an HD channel and digital stream broadcasting only Milwaukee music.

Fire Tracker App

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Fire Tracker is an app offering information about California wildfires and provides emergency services in 36 counties.

Movers & Thinkers

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In front of a live audience in our studio we conduct an interview with three creative, influential Nashvillians from different fields using a common theme. For example, in a theme about investigators, we included an investigative reporter, a private eye, and a disease detective. Following the taping, we serve refreshments and provide an opportunity to meet our guests. We edit each interview session into a 25-minute podcast and a few short radio pieces, garnering as many as 80,000 downloads.

Raven Narratives, Dragon Tales, and Mesa Verde Voices

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Over the past two years KSJD has worked to develop and produce three story-telling initiatives that showcase the importance of first-person story – The Raven Narratives (themed live events with story-tellers from the Four Corners region); Dragon Tales (live events with at-risk youth telling their stories), and Mesa Verde Voices (a podcast series with the voices of archaeologists who study the prehistory of the Southwest and the voices of modern Pueblo peoples who descended from the prehistoric peoples that lived there.)

Ascertainment

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WYPR’s Community Advisory Board established an initiative – dubbed Ascertainment – to bring community organizations into the station to teach station staff about their work. Each month 2-4 organizations, usually non-profits, present to the station’s producers and reporters, helping build a contact base the reporters and producers can use when working on stories or ideas for future stories based on what is happening in the surrounding communities. The program recently expanded to include Outreach back to the organizations.

Band Together (2017 Finalist)

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Radio Milwaukee believes music is a powerful force to bring people together – a belief that drives their mission to utilize music to connect diverse audiences. In 2016, they launched Band Together to act on that belief, creating a unique evening of music and food, with diverse, live music – featuring four local bands from four genres – and a variety of ethnic appetizers from local restaurants. Between bands, the station puts on storytelling performances about race and people coming together.

Producer Peter CottonTale gives feedback on students' samples at a Music Lab event in October 2017.

Grace Weber’s Music Lab (2017 Finalist)

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Grace Weber, a Grammy Award-winning singer/songwriter hosts a monthly session – Grace Weber’s Music Lab — where she invites local high school musicians to perform in an “open-mic” setting. In addition, a professional musician or entertainment industry guest shares professional advice and critiques the students’ performances. Each session includes an educational module, guest interview, and student performances.

Words in Transit

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New England Public Radio and Amherst College’s Copeland Colloquium have collected the personal stories of nearly 30 people from around the world who have made their new home in western New England. Traversing continents and cultures, the project illuminates the many pathways leading to our small corner of the globe, and explores the shared experience among those seeking a new life in a foreign land.

Locally Produced Benefit CDs

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In 2010 one of our WGUC announcers asked his musician friends to record an acoustic adaptation of a Christmas classic. The collection was compiled into a CD called the RING CD and Cincinnati Public Radio offered it as a gift during the fall fund drive. It became one of our most popular gifts; musicians loved being a part of the project; it is a strong LOCALLY produced CD. Results to date: 3,774 CD requests and $377,400+ raised from CD sales.

Unprisoned: Stories from the System

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Unprisoned is a series showing how mass incarceration in New Orleans and Louisiana – the world’s “incarceration capital” – affects families, communities and notions of justice. The first season looked at the effects on citizenry outside prison walls telling stories of people caught in the criminal legal system, of family members of incarcerated persons, and of residents reentering society after serving time. These stories were broadcast on air, produced as a podcast, streamed, and shared at live events.

WYSO Community Training

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In 2011, WYSO launched a radio production and reporting training course called Community Voices, designed to create a new community of radio producers, increase the number of local voices on the station’s airwaves and deepen the station’s relationship with listeners. Each year 8-12 members of the community goes through this intense five-month program to learn these skills and to produce pieces, many of which are aired on the station. To date the station has trained more than 100 people. Read Current’s story about Community Voices.

Hampton Roads Voices

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A two-hour call in show with discussion around issues of concern for Hampton Roads. 5 to 7 Fridays. Began as an idea of the host to open phone lines to allow listeners to vent, grief, share solutions with regard to police shootings of African-American men and women in America and the retaliation shooting of police in Texas. After the first show, it was apparent that it needed to advance from a segment to a weekly program.

In Person Live Event Platform

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KPCC organizes in-person events to connect their staff with their listeners. Events are also broadcasted live for a digital audience.

Troubled Waters

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Troubled Waters is a reporting initiative examining the impact of Trump’s policies on the Great Lakes. To stretch the resources of Great Lakes Today, whose reporters are based in New York and Ohio, the RJC partnered with public radio stations in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan. The result: a five-part radio series (run June 12-16) that highlighted threatened projects on each of the five Great Lakes.

Minnesota Varsity

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Annual Classical Talent contest for Minnesota High school singers, instrumentalists, composers. Part of Classical MPRs social engagement with young musicians. We also do instrument drives and artist in residence programs.

Radio Astronomy

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Radio Astronomy is a weekly WMPG radio show focusing on raising public awareness of space science and exploration.

Policy and a Pint

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Policy and the Pint is a joint venture that provokes conversations about public policy in Minnesota and the rest of the country.