The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (“CPB”) is accepting proposals from public media organizations seeking to reach new audiences with public affairs programming and content services (“Public Affairs Programming”), prioritizing those that have the greatest potential to increase digital audiences and be sustainable beyond the grant term.
Open Grants and RFPs
CPB provides funding for the development of public media television, radio, and digital content as well as multiplatform projects that reflect public media’s mission to educate, inform and inspire the American public by providing stories through a broad array of perspectives, genres, styles and technologies.
As a steward of federal funds, the vast majority of CPB support—by law—goes directly to local stations through Community Service Grants, which help stations expand the quality and scope of their work. However, CPB offers a limited number of additional grants to producers for Content & Production, and here, additional station support to address specific initiatives and issue areas. Browse below or in CPB’s closed grants archive for examples.
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Latest Grant and RFP Opportunities
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Deadline: May 01, 2025Eligibility: Open to CSG-qualified TV and Radio Stations.
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The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is inviting proposals to increase public media station services to rural communities through innovative, community-informed content strategies that identify and address vital news and information gaps.
Deadline: Apr 16, 2025Eligibility: Open to CSG-qualified TV and Radio Stations. -
The Collaborative Operations and Services ("COS") grant program is intended to support multistation initiatives to fully develop and implement collaborations, strategic alliances and other forms of partnerships that will increase stations' abilities and capacities to achieve more together than each can accomplish alone. The COS will provide smaller grants to assist stations with facilitation, analysis, and research ("FAR") required for establishing parameters for collaboration efforts, as well as larger grants for the implementation of serious collaborative efforts.
Deadline: Rolling or MultipleEligibility: TV, Joint or Radio CSG recipients in good standing, collaborations of CSG recipients, and/or existing non-profit organizations that deliver services to, or represent, CSG recipients.