Overall Goals: Science cafes are live events that meet in casual venues like pubs, restaurants, and coffehouses for a moderated conversation between a scientist and the public. Many cafe events start off with a short video clip from NOVA scienceNOW.

Partners: Sigma Xi, the Scientific Research Society, Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Coalition on the Public Understanding of Science

Activity Types: Science cafe events

Pipeline Initiatives: NOVA scienceNOW, NOVA

Overall Goals: Janesville follows the community of Janesville, Wisconsin for two years as it reinvents itself after losing its century-old General Motors plant forever.

Partners: Monster.com, WPT

Overall Goals: Minnesota Public Radio has created a variety of online interactive tools to help community members consider their personal spending choices during the current economy. Tools created include Transportation Savings Calculator, Car Cost Comparison Calculator, Health Care Reform and Small Business, and Miles per Gallon Calculator.

For example, the Health Care Reform and Small Business calculator has questions related to four provisions contained in one or both bills, allowing employers to determine how much of an impact health care reform will have on their livelihood.

The categories are:

* “Does your business qualify for a tax credit?”

* “Estimate the tax credit”

* "Are you subject to the Cadillac Tax?”

* “Will you be assessed under ‘pay or play’?”

Activity Types: Online educational tools

Overall Goals: Jazz 91.9 WCLK in partnership with the Jamie Dukes Foundation presents The Billon Pound Blitz Wellness
Festival on Saturday, June 12 from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m. on the campus of Morehouse College.

The festival as the kick-off to a 6-month health competition against five area churches. Jazz 91.9 WCLK listeners are invited to participate. The wellness initiative encourages people to take control of their health through the following five areas: screening, exercise, nutrition, Street of Dream Food and Kids Green Zone.

Morehouse School of Medicine will assume the lead position in screenings as Weight, Body Mass Index, Lipid Panel,
Diabetes Kit and Urological Screenings will be administered to each participant.

The Billon Pound Blitz is an education experience designed to empower as well as offer practical tips to help participants meet their health and wellness needs. There will be monthly weigh ins, quarterly screenings and special radio programming throughout the six month challenge. More
information is available at (404) 880-8284 or at www.wclk.com.

Partners: Jamie Dukes Foundation, Morehouse School of Medicine

Activity Types: Health check-ins and gatherings, The Billon Pound Blitz Wellness Festival, The Billon Pound Blitz Competition, Special Radio Broadcasts,

Overall Goals: Our goal is to enrich and inspire community conversation around the forthcoming PBS series, God in America.

Partners: Chrysler Museum of Art, Interfaith Academy of Norfolk, Virginia Wesleyan College (Dept. of Religion)

Activity Types: Screening of God in America, Panel Discussion, Art Exhibition

Overall Goals: KZMU-FM (Moab, Utah) - When local artist, Bruce Hucko had a youth-based engagement proposal, he turned to KZMU-FM. He and the station started the “Voices of Youth-Moab” initiative, ongoing since 2004, a radio project designed to connect teenagers with the history, folklore, people and issues of their culture and community. The results are reciprocal: participating youth learn about their community, while their community is shown hidden elements that make up its unique character.

Partners: Grand County High School

Overall Goals: To publicize the premiere of Ken Burns' new Tenth Inning documentary, Louisiana Public Broadcasting will hold two events. The first will be a preview screening at the LSU Champions Club at Alex Box Stadium, the home of six-national champion LSU Tigers. LSU Coach Paul Mainieri and Louisiana baseball players who played in the majors will be invited guest. The second part will include features on Louisiana players who made it to the big leagues called Louisiana in the Show.

Partners: Louisiana State Library System, Friends of LPB, LSU Athletic Department

Activity Types: Tenth Inning Screening, Screening , Louisiana in the Show

Overall Goals: Mississippi Public Broadcasting (MPB) has recently implemented the Canton Community Outreach Project in Canton, Mississippi. MPB's goal is to impact this community of need by partnering with area businesses and civic organizations to provide community resources to families, schools and libraries. Through the Canton Project, MPB hopes to increase parental involvement in the lives of their children, improve literacy in early childhood to adult education, and provide useful resources to the community.

Partners: Discovery Center, Canton, MS, Professional Eyecare Associates/Optical 2000 in Canton, MS, Madison County WIN Job Center

Activity Types: MPB's Technology Integration Initiative, Between the Lions Activity Corner, MPB's Adult Education Resource Center, The Raising Readers Library Corner Project, Canton Community Resource Day, The Raising Readers Grocery Store Project, MPB's Parent Resource Center,

Overall Goals: Central Pennsylvania has been hit hard by job loss. In some towns, the unemployment rate has reached 13% or higher.

WPSU created a comprehensive website in response to the unemployment crisis and Pennsylvania's changing economy. The map-driven, non-formal learning initiative tracks industry trends, gives context to data through expert commentary, and shares success stories.

It is interactive and hyperlocal and an important educational asset.

Partners: Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Keystone Research Center, Penn State's Office of Economic and Workforce Development, Pennsylvania Data Center

Activity Types: Promotion through Chambers of Commerce

Overall Goals: WCTE works with Jammin at Hippie Jack's Productions to achieve its mission of outreach and quality programming by acting as a fiscal Sponsor to the program titled Jammin at Hippie Jack's.
Jammin at Hippie Jack's is a 13 part music television series that represents Folk, Blues, Bluegrass, and American roots musicians. This initiatives' goal is about revitalizing a musical genre, and recognizing talented singers, songwriters and instrumentalists whos music stems from a cultural era we want to preserve. Two years ago Director, Jack Stoddart built a stage on his farm in rural Crawford, Tennessee and named it ‘The Sundown Stage’. Stoddart's vision in building the stage was to help a vanishing genre of music not just survive, but thrive and to preserve an art form sometimes overshadowed by pop culture. The preservation of the Americana musician is the primary focus of the Jammin at Hippie Jack's Music TV series

Partners: Rock Creative Images, LLC, Jammin at Hippie Jack's Production

Pipeline Initiatives: Learning with Art21, Art21: Ignite discussion and inspire creative thinking