We strongly encourage all station/licensee staff assigned to ISIS security groups to sign up for as many webinars and face-to-face workshops as needed to understand the use of ISIS, CSG compliance and certification, as well as how to complete CSG legal, financial, survey and other reporting forms. Inquiries related to SABS and SAS should be sent to SABS@cpb.org and SAS@cpb.org, respectively. For all other inquires, please email CSG@cpb.org.
Pre-Recorded Web-Based Training
January 2024
This live session is a practical how-to session on accurately completing the SAS survey. Attendees will be led through ALL sections of the SAS survey and discuss the types of employment, salary, governing board and other information to be reported.
January 2024
Non-federal financial support (NFFS) is an eligibility criterion for the CSG program as well as a key component in calculating annual CSG awards. NFFS is one of the primary reasons CSG recipients submit an annual financial report to CPB. This webinar explains the concept of NFFS and provides methods for determining the NFFS eligibility of direct and in-kind revenue. This session is for all CSG recipients – regardless of experience level and whether they file an AFR or FSR.
January 2024
Grantees that have not completed their annual Harassment and Bias Prevention training requirement and station training administrators that want to learn more should attend this one-hour session that has recently been added to our training lineup. This session provides an opportunity to learn more about how to use EVERFI and its related tools.
December 2023
This recorded live training session is a practical how-to session on accurately completing the SABS survey. Attendees will be led through ALL sections of the survey and discuss the types of financial and non-financial information to be reported. Geared for television grantees.
October 2023
CPB staff will discuss the financial reports requirements that are unique to Financial Summary Report (FSR) filers and guide attendees through detailed instructions on completing the FSR.
September 2023
This webinar provides a basic overview of the Annual Financial Report (AFR) that most CPB grantees must file to comply with certain provisions of the Community Service Grant (CSG) program. Some radio grantees file an Annual Financial Summary Report (FSR), which will also be discussed in this presentation. CPB staff will review the reasons for financial reporting to CPB and the essential role non-federal financial support plays in CSG calculations. Attendees will also receive a brief overview on how to use CPB's Integrated Station Information System for filing these reports.
September 2023
A recorded training session that informs television and radio Community Service Grant recipients how to complete the annual Station Activities Survey (SAS) and for television grantees, how to complete annual Station Activities Benchmarking Study (SABS). This session is designed to introduce the CPB ISIS Survey Reporting tool and show stations how to access the survey reporting tools while demonstrating the types of reports that can be built and run using the tool. The session will review reports that contain salary, financial and operational statistics collected from the annual SAS and SABS surveys. Those involved with collecting, entering, or reporting survey information are encouraged to attend this workshop.
September 2023
This session provides instructions on how grantees complete the Certification of Eligibility (COE) form to accept their annual radio or TV Community Service Grant offer.
September 2023
This session provides a basic introduction to the General Provisions and Eligibility Criteria for radio and TV Community Service Grant recipients and information on resources and training to support grantees’ compliance efforts.
February 2021
This webinar is for CSG recipients that receive indirect administrative support (IAS) from their institutional licensee that can be reported as NFFS. It will present the standard method to report IAS as NFFS. With this information, grantees will be ready to begin using the standard method to prepare their fiscal year 2020 audited financial statement and annual financial report for CPB.
January 2024
This live session is a practical how-to session on accurately completing the SAS survey. Attendees will be led through ALL sections of the SAS survey and discuss the types of employment, salary, governing board and other information to be reported.