Light In The Darkness: Public Media Partners

• Call-in Program: Fronteras will produce a “Call-in Program” for listeners/viewers to call in to and provide feedback, and that will provide original content to reporters.
• Not In Our School (NIOS): NIOS outreach campaigns will be held at schools in the respective station areas. To effectively reach educators, stations will feature NIOT and its resources at conferences such as the LGBTQIA Educator Conference.  
• Promotion: KPBS will create a TV and radio spot that will air on all stations, that encourages discourse on multiple platforms across the southwest, aimed to reach and directly impact the communities conflicted by bias and hate-crimes.
• Screening/discussions in each community: To address the urgent need for community solutions to hate crimes, stations will host community discussion and screenings. A few examples of events in development include: San Diego State University campus (9/22); Anti-LGBT Bullying Awareness Day (9/23) in Tucson; Northern Arizona University (Fall): Jewish Film Festival (2/9-2/19, exact day TBD); Flagstaff PRIDE (early winter time), Diversity Awareness Commission of Flagstaff’s city council (TBD); and events with the Anti-Defamation League in New Mexico, Arizona, and San Diego.

• Screening and community discussion at the College of Southern Idaho in Twin Falls, Idaho
• Human Rights Week on Idaho Public Television: Sept. 18-24: Includes three Not In Our Town documentaries and The Color of Conscience, a local documentary on human rights.
• Special series on human rights issues on two state-wide weekly public affairs programs, Dialogue and Idaho Reports, including immigration program during next state legislature.
• Lesson plans and other educational materials developed and distributed statewide through the Human Rights Education Center and the Boise State University Multi-Cultural Center.

Series of local screening and discussion events including:

• Saturday, Sept. 10: West Shore Unitarian Universalist Church
• Monday, Sept. 19: Idea Center at Playhouse Square, in collaboration with Facing History and Ourselves; Lincoln West High School, Thomas Jefferson High School, Esperanza Community Center; and Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage.
• Web portal featuring local student stories, and community and educational resources. 

• Local broadcast companion special that features stories through the Kansas City Anti-Violence Program, as well as interviews with national experts and authors on bullying.
• Sept. 13 screening with partners Coalition of Hispanic Organizations and KC-PFLAG; highlights online, and on KCPT’s weekly current affairs magazine program, The Local Show.
• Collaboration with library and school partners to create student multi-media content around the topics of anti-hate and anti-bullying; shared through social media and KCPT’s website; summer teacher training workshops, and video resources on KCPT’s online video classroom.  

KLRN
San Antonio, Texas

Website: 
http://klrn.org/

• Not In Our Town/School Week of Action - From Sept. 18-23, activities include a city-wide proclamation to stand together for unity and accept diverse cultures; a local on-air forum following the broadcast of the documentary, community screening events, and NIOS project launches in local schools.
• Not In Our School Campaigns - Year-long collaborations with local middle/high schools with community organizations who serve youth to implement NIOS campaigns, which will culminate with an event/rally in Spring 2012. Teacher resources on KLRN Connect online media network, which serves more than 30,000 teachers in 400 schools.

KQED
San Francisco, Calif. 

Website:
http://www.kqed.org/tv/programs/niot/

• Local Programming: A month-long broadcast series of programming that includes the new NIOT documentary as well a local film that KQED co-produced with The Working Group that focuses on the LGBT community, and a second film set at a Bay Area high school. 
• On radio, KQED will produce a special Forum, its popular daily call-in show.
• Citizen Journalism: Promotion of NIOT and its integration with Public Insight Network to grow and diversify its network of news sources. The station produced customized broadcast spots with targeted PIN queries for the three films that will air throughout the month.

Nashville Public Television
Nashville, Tenn. 

Website:
http://www.wnpt.org/index.php

• Community Discussions: 10 Days of Peace - Sept. 11-21, 2011.  Sponsorship of NIOT public screenings and events to promote anti-hate dialogue, collaborating with Islamic Center of Nashville, Tennessee State University, Vanderbilt University, Kurdish American Youth Organization, FBI Gang Task Force, and Nashville Area Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
• User-generated Content: A user-generated video campaign that will highlight what immigrants and refugees are doing to stand up to bias and create inclusion, expanding on the work NPT has begun with user-generated immigrant videos.

Nebraska Educational Telecommunications

Website:
http://www.netnebraska.org/television/

• In partnership with The Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest, NET will develop engagement events in three communities, including facilitated discussions at local high schools, and evening public dialogue forums.

• Production of a 30-minute local NIOT follow-up panel discussion program featuring highlights of the engagement, events and providing additional community resources.
• NET News production of in-depth radio news feature story segments and video “web extras” on the related topic of hate crimes in Nebraska.

• A month-long initiative, based in an integrated approach that places The Craig Fahle Show (heard Monday through Fridays  from 10 a.m.-12 p.m. and 7-9 p.m.) at the center of a multi-media effort. The program is a southeast Michigan daily, non-partisan locally-focused talk show and content will extend through the website, social media channels, daily reporting and community convenings.
• Collaboration with Specs Howard Broadcasting for students to co-create original video, shot at discussion events at Affirmations, a LGBT community center, and the Arab American National Museum. These videos will be featured on WDET's online video service, WDET-TV. 

WNET
New York, N.Y.

Website:
http://www.wnet.org/

• MetroFocus  feature coverage on NIOT and current and ongoing hate crime stories in New York metro-region. Multi-media features potentially include: follow-up profiles of players in the documentary, an exploration of other communities seeking solutions, opinion pieces, essay contests and stories from regional organizations.
• A NIOT feature presentation at WNET’s annual Celebration of Teaching and Learning, a professional development conference attended by thousands of educators across the country; and a community forum and an ongoing email campaign aimed at NYC metro area educators.   

• Production of segments on new immigrant communities in Pittsburgh region for WQED’s weekly television program dedicated to diversity, Horizons. Station will build new cadre of on-air talent by cultivating new and diverse storytellers for broadcast segments.
• An advanced screening event for community partners, followed by an educational forum to explore the social issues featured in the film, recorded and archived online for on-demand viewing. Positioning of  NIOT content on multiple channels including website and podcasts, providing a vital resource for community where few media outlets spotlight these issues.     

• Production of 10 news stories for TV, radio and online audiences on anti-hate and pro-inclusion activities in Tampa Bay.
• Creation of five 60-90 second interstitials on NIOT and community resources to air on WUSF and on commercial stations such as Bay News 9 (Tampa) and News 13 (Orlando).
• Youth conference "Unity" event in a local high school that uses the documentary to spark dialogue/activities with youth on the themes explored in the film, and a University of South Florida screening and discussions with thought leaders and students.