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TO IMPROVE HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE, 1998–1999

Radio and Television Grants, 1987–1997

Exhibit 10.1. RWJF Broadcasting Grants, 1987–1997.


Original Grant Amount Original Grant
Period
Grants for News Coverage
Television		    
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  1. WGBH Educational Foundation1
$15,928,917		 9/88 – 12/93
  1. Rutgers University
 93,105 2/92 – 1/95
  1. Foundation for New Jersey Public Broadcasting
100,000 1/94 – 7/97
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Radio
        
  1. National Public Radio 2
 4,571,163 1/87 – 10/99
  1. Alaska Public Radio Network/Koahnic Broadcasting (National Native News)
   674,154 5/91 – 7/98
  1. Radio Bilingüe
 923,521 9/92 – 8/98
  1. Western Organization of Resource Councils
    (High Plains News Service)
   210,000 5/93 – 7/98
  1. National Public Radio (health care reform project–Critical Choice)
 236,396 9/94 – 3/95
  1. American Communications Foundation
 224,452 2/95 – 3/97
  1. Radio Bilingüe—Coverage of flood emergency
 6,000 4/95 – 6/95
  1. National Multiple Sclerosis Society 
    (disability news service)
 355,703 11/96 – 10/98
  1. Sound Partners for Community Health
 2,000,000 8/97 – 7/02
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Both Television and Radio
       
  1. Institute for the Arts of Democracy
    (American News Service)
 351,228 1/97 – 12/98
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Grants for Specific Productions Television

  1. RLP Incorporated 
    (film on youth substance abuse)
 426,788 5/91 – 10/01
  1. Physicians’ Association for AIDS Care
 15,000 11/91 – 4/92
  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison 
    (town meeting on access to health care)
 50,000 10/92 – 11/92
  1. Appalshop  (AIDS documentary)
 25,660 11/92 – 12/92
  1. American Re-Education Corporation
    (children’s mental health documentary)
376,160 3/93 – 10/94
  1. Educational Broadcasting Corp.
    (health system documentary)
 150,000 5/93 – 10/93
  1. Rock the Vote
    (health care reform specials for youth)
 2,894,600 2/94 – 1/95
  1. National Broadcasting Co.
    (health reform special)
 3,500,000 5/94 – 4/95
  1. Home Box Office 
    (substance abuse television specials)
 3,307,626 5/94 – 4/95
  1. Educational Broadcasting Corp.
    (health reform documentary)
 400,000 8/94 – 7/95
  1. Educational Broadcasting Corp.
    (managed care documentary)
 424,852 6/95 – 10/95
  1. Caucus Educational Corp.
    (substance abuse-NJ youth series)
 60,000 1/96 – 12/96
  1. Judge Baker Children’s Center
    (children’s series pilot)
 50,000 6/96 – 5/97

  1. Educational Broadcasting Corp.
    (end-of-life special)
639,705 8/96 – 7/97
  1. Public Affairs Television (addiction series)
 4,380,107 11/96 – 5/98
  1. University of Pennsylvania
    (children’s series pilot)
 169,000 1/97 – 12/97
  1. Judge Baker Children’s Center
    (planning for 3-part series)
 99,733 11/97 – 2/98
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Radio
       
  1. Kathy McAnally (rural health radio special)
 38,750 5/94 – 11/94
  1. Kathy McAnally
    (health care changes radio specials)
 112,319 8/95 – 7/97
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Corollary Projects
        
  1. Hill & Knowlton, Inc. (advertising, placement of feature stories, and assessment for the AIDS Quarterly)
313,628 8/88 – 9/89
  1. Western Public Radio, Inc. (distribution of a series on alcohol abuse to college radio stations)
 148,068 11/91 – 7/92
  1. Public Agenda Foundation (local media campaigns re health care reform linked with a public television program)
250,000 3/92 – 3/93
  1. WETA (studio discussion of youth substance abuse program, promotion)
 85,500 4/92 – 9/93
  1. Continental Cablevision (distribution of public forums on health care reform)
 18,000 6/93 – 8/93
  1. Western Public Radio, Inc. (nationwide public radio broadcast of program on preventing youth substance abuse and distribution of audio tapes to schools)
 44,361 10/93 – 3/94
  1. Western Public Radio, Inc. (additional distribution of substance abuse tapes to schools, based on strong response)
50,000 5/94 – 7/94
  1. U. of Pennsylvania-Annenberg School for Communications (health care reform media tracking project)
 55,959 3/95 – 7/95
  1. Educational Broadcasting Corporation (expansion of WNET’s world wide web site to support managed care documentary)
 10,981 9/95 – 11/95
  1. Educational Broadcasting Corporation ( paid advertising for WNET’s managed care documentary)
 49,881 9/95 – 11/95
  1. Hedrick Smith Productions, Inc. (educational outreach and promotion for programs on the tobacco lobby and health care policy)
 150,000 7/96 – 2/97
  1. Barksdale Ballard & Co. (outreach to grassroots organizations around end-of-life special, Before I Die)
 181,000 8/96 – 7/97
  1. Boston University School of Public Health  (outreach to community coalitions around HBO substance abuse specials)
138,404
12/96
– 6/97
  1. Cine Information, Inc.
    (print advertising for Before I Die)
491,758 4/97 – 5/97
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Total $44,782,479  
1This project was terminated at the midway point of its final grant.
2Funding prior to 1987 totaled $171,388.(Back to exhibit)

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Communications - The Foundation's Radio and Television Grants, 1987-1997 - Exhibit10.1