September 2006 Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration
Grant Announcement

California  |  Connecticut  |  Iowa  |  Kansas  |  Massachusetts  |  Michigan  |  New Mexico 

Pennsylvania  |  South Carolina  |  Utah  |  Vermont  |  Virginia 

California

Rural California Broadcasting Corporation (KRCB) - Rohnert Park, CA
Award Amount: $243,450
Match Amount: $169,166

Contact: Ms. Robin Pressman
Program Director
(707)584-2027; robin_pressman@krcb.org

Project Title: "Latinos in Sonoma County: Hope and Heroes"
Rural California Broadcasting, together with the Sonoma County Library and the Sonoma County Museum, will teach more than 200 Latino youth to find their own voices through writing, art, and radio and television production. The partners will host forums that provide opportunities for community-building and will broadcast relevant programming on KRCB. By focusing attention on the positive aspects of Latino life and culture and by building skills, the partners aim to decrease self-destructive behavior by Latino youth.

Connecticut

New Haven Free Public Library - New Haven, CT
Award Amount: $250,000
Match Amount: $214,139

Contact: Ms. Barbara Segaloff
Development Director
(203)946-8130x314; barbara.segaloff@nhfpl.org

Project Title: "Greater New Haven Family Learning Partnership"
New Haven Free Public Library, Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc. (CPBI), and the Connecticut Children’s Museum will extend the work of the Parents and Communities for Kids (PACK) initiative, which has had great success in promoting and supporting community and family learning. Targeting underserved neighborhoods that have not traditionally participated in arts activities, PACK focuses on parents’ role as their children’s first and best teachers. This new grant will allow the partners to take greater advantage of libraries as entry points for learning activities. A new PACK partner, CPBI will record the project at work and produce a Family Learning multimedia campaign that will greatly enhance PACK’s public awareness efforts.

Iowa

Iowa Public Television - Johnston, IA
Award Amount: $226,583
Match Amount: $130,198

Contact: Ms. Gwendolyn Nagel
Assistant Director, Educational Telecommunications
(515)242-3142; gwen@iptv.org

Project Title: "Family Literacy for New Iowans"
Iowa Public Television, the State Library of Iowa, and the Iowa Department of Education will pair librarians with children’s resource programs to bring literacy programs to Latino families with children from birth to five years old. These pairs will offer family book clubs with hands-on activities to increase family engagement in literacy activities and the use of public libraries. Projected outcomes include increased family engagement in reading and early literacy activities with children, increased family co-viewing and other learning strategies with PBS children's programming, and increased awareness of local adult literacy resources.

Kansas

Johnson County Library - Shawnee Mission, KS
Award Amount: $249,900
Match Amount: $271,386

Contact: Mr. Timothy Rogers
Associate Director for Operations
(913)495-2459; rogerst@jocolibrary.org

Project Title: "Science, INC Community Partnership: Inspiring Natural Curiosity"
Johnson County Public Library and Kansas City Public Television, in conjunction with Science City at Union Station, Science Pioneers, and Pathfinder Science, will build Science INC, a community partnership focused on promoting science-related events, encouraging interest in science, advocating for science-based careers, and inspiring natural curiosity throughout the community. Programs and activities such as Family Science Nights, TV vignettes, and Science Kits will let children and families focus on various science-related careers and enhance lifelong learning.

Massachusetts

WGBH Educational Foundation - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $250,000
Match Amount: $249,967

Contact: Ms. Denise DiIanni
Executive in Charge - Boston Media Productions
(617)300-3404; ddiianni@wgbh.org

Project Title: "Cambridge Science Festival/Eye On Science (CSF/EOS) Initiative"
WGBH and the MIT Museum will partner for the Spring 2007 Cambridge-based Science Festival with open laboratory tours, demonstrations, exhibits, and many other events in development by the MIT Museum. Eye on Science, a WGBH local multimedia and outreach campaign, will include a televised town meeting, a radio series, video podcasts, a web site, and a film festival. The festival and the media campaign will enhance scientific understanding, promote civic engagement, and introduce families to the rich diversity of science-related opportunities in their community. Together the partners intend to make science careers more accessible to the local Cambridge community.

WGBY Public Television for Western New England - Springfield, MA
Award Amount: $248,444
Match Amount: $287,010

Contact: Mr. Russell Peotter
Vice President and General Manager
(413)781-2801x260; rpeotter@wgby.org

Project Title: "Perspectives On America: Currier and Ives"
WGBY –TV, partnering with the Springfield Library and Museums Association, Bay Path College, the local newspaper The Republican, and Springfield Public Schools, will provide digitally-based educational experiences for children, adults and seniors that explore the museums' comprehensive collection of 787 nineteenth-century Currier & Ives lithographs. Using the Currier & lves prints as a point of departure, the program will invite audiences to determine what the prints reveal about American history, how they can be used to teach visual literacy, and the role they played as the precursor to the journalistic phenomenon we now refer to as the "mass media."

Michigan

Michigan State University - East Lansing, MI
Award Amount: $238,386
Match Amount: $271,280

Contact: Dr. Mark Kornbluh
Director, MATRIX Center
(517)355-9300; mark@mail.matrix.msu.edu

Project Title: "From Resistance to Rights: An Audiovisual Resource on Michigan's Civil Rights Legacy"
Michigan State University's MATRIX: Center for Humane Arts, Letters, and Social Sciences Online, in partnership with Detroit Public Television (DPTV) and the Michigan Historical Center, will produce rich multimedia resources on African-American history in Michigan, including the production of a DPTV broadcast for the American Black Journal program, a demonstration at the Michigan Historical Center, and an innovative Web resource linking these materials with other searchable archived documents, images, videos, and educational materials. A teacher advisory board will review project content and design training for fourth-grade and high school history teachers as well as for introductory college history courses.

New Mexico

Alamo Navajo School Board - Magdalena, NM
Award Amount: $123,552
Match Amount: $53,169

Contact: Ms. Emily Eddy
Librarian & Media Center Instructor
(505)854-2543x1153; eeddy@alamo.bia.edu

Project Title: "Alamo Youth Radio Project"
The Alamo Youth Radio Project, a partnership between the Alamo Navajo Community School Library/Media Center and the educational public radio station KABR-AM, will provide a unique learning experience for students in grades 9-12. Students will have the opportunity to enroll in an Electronic Media and Radio Journalism course with hands-on production and broadcasting activities. They will produce local programming on cultural topics that will be aired on the community station. The project aims to increase students’ job skills and language arts proficiency.

Pennsylvania

Free Library of Philadelphia - Philadelphia, PA
Award Amount: $249,923
Match Amount: $280,429

Contact: Ms. Hedra Packman
Director of Library Services
(215)686-5305; Packmanh@library.phila.gov

Project Title: "Philadelphia Partnership for Peace: A Multifaceted Approach to the Crisis of Youth Violence"
The Free Library of Philadelphia, in partnership with the House of Umoja, WXPN Radio, and the Atwater Kent Museum, will educate Philadelphia middle school students about the impact of violence in their communities and help them learn to resolve conflicts in peaceful way. Using a variety of media to reach different learning styles, including after school programs, nonviolence resource centers, storyteller segments on Kids’ Corner radio, and historical exhibitions, middle school through high school participants will learn about positive alternatives to violence and be encouraged to sign a non-violence pledge.

South Carolina

South Carolina State Museum - Columbia, SC
Award Amount: $137,246
Match Amount: $368,561

Contact: Dr. Fritz Hamer
Chief Curator of History
(803)898-4942; fritz.hamer@museum.state.sc.us

Project Title: "Seeds of Change: The Great War, South Carolina, and the World"
The South Carolina State Museum will lead a partnership with the South Carolina Educational Television Network, the University of South Carolina, and several local museums to create exhibitions, lectures, a TV documentary, and radio programs on the changes World War I brought to American society in general and South Carolina in particular. Exhibition venues will include museums, a library, and a historic preservation society in Columbia. Partners will produce a catalogue, website, brochures, and posters as long term resources for students and adults.

Utah

University of Utah's Utah Educational Network (UEN-TV) - Salt Lake City, UT
Award Amount: $250,000
Match Amount: $123,939

Contact: Dr. Laura Hunter
Director UEN-TV, Instructional Services, UEN
(801)581-5852; lhunter@uen.org

Project Title: "Water Wise Utah"
UEN-TV and its partners, KUED-TV, KUER Radio, the J. Willard Marriott Library, and the Utah Museum of Natural History, will use the grant to increase awareness of critical water issues and encourage water conservation throughout the state of Utah. The partners will create TV documentaries, K-12 educational events, a museum exhibit, and a Web site linking to the Western Waters Digital Library. By combining their strengths and expertise in this way, the partners will unify and promote water conservation efforts. They will collaborate with Utah water agencies and community organizations to target five Utah communities with high rates of water consumption.

Vermont

Vermont Division for Historic Preservation - Montpelier, VT
Award Amount: $250,000
Match Amount: $151,292

Contact: Ms. Elsa Gilbertson
Regional Historic Site Administrator
(802)759-2412; Elsa.Gilbertson@state.vt.us

Project Title: "Lake Champlain Voyages of Discovery: Bringing History Home"
The Vermont Division for Historic Preservation, Vermont Public Television, and Bixby Memorial Public Library will educate the communities of the Lake Champlain valley and beyond on the history of the area from the time of Samuel de Champlain's explorations in 1609 through the Revolutionary War. Through a community archaeology project focused on French settlement sites and other programs, including a dynamic web site, exhibits, and a documentary, local residents and the world outside will learn about the history of this region.

Virginia

Virginia Historical Society - Richmond, VA
Award Amount: $209,277
Match Amount: $165,639

Contact: Dr. Paul Levengood
Managing Editor Virginia Magazine of History
(804)342-9673; plevengood@vahistorical.org

Project Title: "Witness to a Century"
The Virginia Historical Society and Commonwealth Public Broadcasting will document the tremendous changes that took place in Virginia between 1900 and 2000 by using the words of those who experienced that entire time period firsthand: men and women who are over 100 years old. Their testimony will be used to produce a series of short television segments, a one-hour television documentary, educational materials for use in Central Virginia community senior centers, and web resources. After broadcast, educational curriculum based on the program will be available to senior centers in Central Virginia where trained moderators will lead discussions that elicit viewers’ own experiences and memories.