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Avampato Discovery Museum – Charleston, WV
Year: 2005
Amount: $249,626  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
Beginning a Healthy Life, a collaboration between the Avampato Discovery Museum, West Virginia Public Broadcasting System and the Kanawha County Library System, tackles critical health issues facing the citizens of West Virginia, including obesity, diabetes, tobacco use, and oral health. The goal of the project is to educate young children and their caregivers about the essentials of healthy living and to instill these healthy habits at an early age. The project will develop nutrition and literacy-based programs for adults, story times for pre-school children, and presentations in libraries, schools, and at the West Virginia Book Festival by children's authors who have used health-related themes. The museum will present a major exhibition entitled "Sesame Street Presents: The Body," produced by Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street, and Thinkwell Design and Production (http://www.sesamestreetpresents.org). The exhibition is part of Sesame Workshop’s “Healthy Habit’s for Life” initiative. The project will also fund a school-based artist-in-residency program and a professional puppet theater touring group.

Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium – Saint Johnsbury, VT
Year: 2005
Amount: $222,623  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
Eye on the Night Sky: A Project for Science Literacy is a partnership between the Fairbanks Museum and Planetarium of St. Johnsbury, Vermont, and Vermont Public Radio (VPR) of Colchester, Vermont. The project is an extension of the partners' popular Eye on the Sky weather program, which reaches more than 150,000 listeners per week in Vermont and parts of New York, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Quebec. Eye on the Sky has popularized weather science in the region, and the museum's staff meteorologists-Mark Breen (who is also director of the planetarium) and Steve Maleski-have become Vermont's best-known weather forecasters. In the new program, listeners will learn about astronomy through an engaging set of educational programs developed by Mr. Breen and astronomy writer Andrew Chaikin. The grant will fund the production of short daily broadcasts, a new website, resources for teachers, and community workshops conducted in public libraries throughout the state. Radio listeners will be able to e-mail their observations and questions to the program. In addition, VPR and the museum will broadcast two annual statewide night sky viewing events, tentatively titled "Everybody's Watching!" During these events, listeners can call in from their cell phones with observations and questions. The goal of the project is to increase science literacy throughout the state, encourage informal observation and science-based inquiry, and promote environmental awareness. The e-mail network will also provide a valuable tool for program evaluation.

Haines Borough Public Library – Haines, AK
Year: 2005
Amount: $212,367  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
The Voices Project is a two-year program developed by the Haines Borough Public Library and Lynn Canal Broadcasting (KHNS radio). This multi-faceted project focuses on the innovative application of technology to educate rural Alaskans about the impacts of drug and alcohol abuse. Alaska has the nation's highest rate of illegal drug use, and Haines and its neighboring villages suffer from high unemployment ranging from 14 percent in the general population to 75 percent in tribal villages. The project will promote lifelong learning and social engagement for patrons and listeners in Haines, Klukwan, Skagway, and 20 rural Alaskan towns reached by Community Radio Alaska. Activities include training for community participants in storytelling through digital audio production, creation of audio diaries illustrating the impacts of substance abuse, dissemination of audio diaries through broadcast and through a website, and development of related resources such as curriculum materials for dissemination via the website.
Project Website: http://www.haineslibrary.org/ie.html

Las Vegas Clark County Library District – Las Vegas, NV
Year: 2005
Amount: $221,197  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
The Open Doors project addresses the literacy needs of adults, including young adults ages 18-24 seeking the GED (parents and caregivers of preschoolers; and native Spanish speakers - a population with the highest rates of poverty, unemployment and school dropout in southern Nevada. The project builds on the existing and highly successful literacy outreach programs of the Library District's CALL (Computer-Assisted Literacy in Libraries) program and of KLVX Communications, the top-rated station for Hispanic family viewing in Las Vegas. The CALL program will extend its one-on-one contact with students in the classroom and computer labs through DVD, CD, and VHS programs, as well as broadcasts, which will enable students to continue the program via interactive video at home. The project will demonstrate how the unique resources of public libraries and public television can be combined to provide new, cost-effective methods for supporting critical literacy learning among adults and children.

Nebraska State Historical Society – Lincoln, NE
Year: 2005
Amount: $249,837  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
Through a program modeled on the popular public television show "Antiques Roadshow," the Nebraska State Historical Society, Nebraska Library Commission and statewide public television network Nebraska Educational Telecommunications (NET) will show families and museum and library staff how to preserve their treasures. Professional conservators will offer information and advice about family heirlooms at three community-based conservation clinics. NET will produce and broadcast a television program based on the clinics and on visits to the Gerald R. Ford Conservation Center in Omaha to illustrate more detailed conservation techniques. Building on the interest generated by the clinics and broadcasts - which are expected to reach 55,000 Nebraskans -- the conservators will present three in-depth workshops on paper, textiles, and metal to be delivered statewide via distance learning video conferences for staff and volunteers of the more than 600 not-for-profit museums and libraries in the state, many of whom have very limited access to training opportunities. The Nebraska Library Commission will present a fourth workshop to help local libraries properly handle primary source materials. Through these activities and a complementary website, the project will help Nebraskans save personal and public historical materials, educate staff in cultural heritage institutions in conservation techniques and increase community knowledge and appreciation of the past.
Project Website: http://www.nebraskahistory.org/oversite/whatsnew/save_treasures.htm

Portland Harbor Museum – South Portland, ME
Year: 2005
Amount: $41,372  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
The Portland Harbor Museum in South Portland, Maine, and community radio station WMPG-FM will collaborate to document one of World War II's untold stories -- the New England Shipbuilding Corporation, which produced 236 Liberty ships for the U.S. Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. The collaboration will produce a radio program that will air in five ten-minute segments in early December 2006, and a traveling kiosk exhibit for use by libraries and other community organizations. The radio program will include interviews of former shipyard workers, many of which will be conducted by high school students, forming the basis for an intergenerational community learning experience. The interviews will be preserved at the museum where they will complement the museum's existing collection of shipyard documents and artifacts.

WGBH Educational Foundation – Boston, MA
Year: 2005
Amount: $250,000  
Grant: Partnership for a Nation of Learners Community Collaboration Grants
WGBH Boston, Boston Children's Museum, Boston Public Library, Children's Hospital Boston, and the Boston Public Health Commission will launch a major asthma management campaign aimed at black and Latino children in neighborhoods with the highest incidence of asthma. Tentatively titled Kids with Asthma Can ..., the two-year campaign builds on the enormous appeal of WGBH's popular Arthur series, which featured an award-winning episode dealing with asthma. The campaign's first phase will add family-oriented booklets and reading lists to the original Buster's Breathless episode, and introduce a play based on the episode that will be performed in libraries, the Children's Museums, and community centers. The second phase will include targeted community outreach activities, such as health seminars at public libraries for parents and caregivers, workshops for community health center staff, and community-wide events. Phase Three will include a highly visible media campaign to launch during Asthma Awareness Month (May) and to continue into the summer months when asthma episodes peak.

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