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The Community Engagement Pipeline is a unique resource, featuring national programs that include outreach and community engagement components. Pulled from a variety of sources within public broadcasting, it's a comprehensive collection of current and upcoming television, radio, online and community-led initiatives. The Pipeline connects the worlds of programming and community engagement, making it an important tool for both producers and station personnel.

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religion
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Fall 2007
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PRAYER IN AMERICA examines how the early development of America shaped the prayer lives of those who lived there; and how the variety of prayer... more

Engagement Goals:  The national outreach campaign will use PRAYER IN AMERICA as a catalyst to bring people - no matter what faith they espouse - together in... more

history
Fall 2007
7 / approx. 2 hrs
  • The War
  • grant available
  • television

THE WAR, a film by Ken Burns, is a seven-part, fourteen-hour chronological PBS documentary film series. THE WAR will examine the American experience of the... more

Engagement Goals:  * to collect WWII veteran's stories through stations and through a partnership with the Library of Congress Veteran's History Project. * to create a multimedia... more

diversity
Ongoing 2007
1 / 57 minutes
  • Anyone and Everyone
  • grant available
  • television

"Anyone and Everyone" is a moving documentary of American families' most heart wrenching and heartwarming moments. First-time filmmaker, Susan Polis Schutz creates an intimate portrait... more

Engagement Goals:  The Anyone and Everyone Outreach Campaign is designed to help families deal with the issues and many emotions that relate to their children coming out,... more

health
Winter 2008
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A Science of Miracles explores the entire history of human organ transplant along with two present day stories - a wife and mother in need... more

Engagement Goals:  Create awareness of the need for healthy organs, and for people to sign their donor cards.

history
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Winter 2008
4 / 60 minutes

AA LIVES II continues the journey of discovery which began with AFRICAN AMERICAN LIVES. The series uses genealogy, oral history, family stories and DNA analysis... more

Engagement Goals:  •Increase educator use of the broadcast, print, and online resources associated with the series •Inspire teachers and students to explore African American history and their... more

history
Winter 2008
1 / 120:00
  • AN UNREASONABLE MAN
  • television

For over 40 years Ralph Nader has worked tirelessly as a consumer advocate, building a legislative record the rival of any contemporary president. Yet today,... more

Engagement Goals:  &bull To promote dialogue on democracy and promote civic participation at the local and national level. &bull To connect communities with leading national and local... more

diversity
Winter 2008
1 / 90:00
  • BANISHED
  • television

From the 1860s to the 1920s, dozens of towns and counties across America violently expelled entire African American communities. A century later, these towns remain... more

Engagement Goals:  &bull To raise awareness about banishment of African American communities from the 1860s and the 1920s. &bull To connect communities with leading national and local... more

news & views
Winter 2008
1 / 60 minutes
  • By the People: Citizenship in the 21st Century
  • television

The documentary will provide coverage of the reconvening of 45 citizen-delegates in the House of Burgesses at Colonial Williamsburg to begin the drafting process for... more

Engagement Goals:  The events at Williamsburg (and in the 11 participating local PBS station sites) covered in the Special Report will lead to the drafting of a... more

diversity
Winter 2008
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  • Good Meat
  • grant available
  • television

Good Meat follows Beau LeBeau, obese and diabetic, as he embarks on a 200-day odyssey, trying to kick soda and fast food and returning -... more

Engagement Goals:  Educate and empower citizens to individually and collectively combat this growing epidemic. Create partnerships between stations and local organizations concerned with obesity and diabetes prevention... more

science
Winter 2008
1 / 90:00

Dr. Jack Kessler, a prominent neurologist, shifts his diabetes research to stem cell research when his daughter is paralyzed from the waist down. MAPPING STEM... more

Engagement Goals:  To help the general public have a better understanding of the science, ethical issues and the debate around stem cell research. To connect communities with... more

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