[grc] Fwd: Timely message

[David Klann]

This just in courtesy of Betty McArdle:


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Subject: 	Timely message
Date: 	Tue, 31 Oct 2023 21:51:09 -0700
From: 	Betty McArdle <betty at c-map.org>
Reply-To: 	betty at c-map.org
Organization: 	Community Media Assistance Project
To: 	'David Klann' <dklann at broadcasttool.com>


Hello Community Radio People,

Yesterday I found out that there is the possibility of getting a FEMA 
grant, being supervised by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
(CPB), via the Next Generation Warning System Grant Program (NGWSGP) - 
Fiscal Year 2023. The purpose of the grants is to extend the reach and 
quality of IPAWS (EAS) alerts throughout the United States.  The grants 
are for the purchase and installation of, and training on equipment that 
will allow IPAWS alerts to be distributed over public radio (by public 
they mean non-commercial) and television broadcasts. This equipment will 
improve the stations’ resilience and security and improve their ability 
to transmit emergency alerts and warnings to the public – including 
people with access and functional needs, people with limited-English 
proficiency, and people in underserved geographic locations, including 
tribal and remote rural areas. Public broadcast stations often serve a 
much larger role in providing critical emergency information in these 
areas than in those with greater concentrations of broadcasters.  This 
program will also support investments that improve the resilience and 
security of public broadcasting networks and systems.  The information 
on-line specifically says these grant funds can be used to buy FCC 
compliant EAS boxes and generators.

*THE GRANT APPLICATION MUST BE FILED BY 5:00PM EST ON WEDNESDAY, 
NOVEMBER 8, 2023.  THIS IS JUST 8 DAYS FROM NOW!*  Sorry for the short 
time, but I just found out about this program.

Priorities of the program include:

--  Common Alert Protocol (CAP) compliant EAS boxes.

--  Resilience-related equipment to enable operation during disasters, 
including emergency generators.

--  All equipment in a station’s Airchain that would advance the 
objectives and priorities of the NGWSGP.

*Who is eligible?*

BROADCAST STATIONS --The term ''broadcast station,'' ''broadcasting 
station,'' or ''radio broadcast station'' means a radio station equipped 
to engage in broadcasting.  The term ''broadcasting'' means the 
dissemination of radio communications intended to be received by the 
public, directly or by the intermediary of relay stations. You don’t 
have to be an existing CPB station.

In other words, *YOUR STATION IS ELIGIBLE!*

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Go to 
https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/rfp/577f36ed/Request%20for%20Applications%20NGWS%20Request%20for%20Application.pdf<https://cpb.org/sites/default/files/rfp/577f36ed/Request%20for%20Applications%20NGWS%20Request%20for%20Application.pdf>to 
read more about this grant program.

I will send out more information as I find it.

My Best,

Betty McArdle

Community Media Assistance Project (CMAP)

betty at c-map.org

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