The KUOW Program Venture Fund (PVF) provides special support for staff and independent reporters and producers to develop new programming focused on the Puget Sound region. Programs funded by the PVF can be a series of feature reports, documentaries or a variety of short audio pieces. The PVF accepts project proposals from producers and reporters three times a year.

Applications for Round 23 of the Program Venture Fund are due March 15, 2013 by 5:00 p.m. (PST).

Instructions: PDF | Word Doc
Application: PDF | Word Doc
 

To kick-start your brain storming here are a few subject areas that KUOW would like to cover in the coming year.  But do not feel tied to this list of subjects; this is just meant to give you a little more direction.  Feel free to submit ideas on completely different topics, whatever catches your interest.

1)    Interstate Ties
What are some of the issues that tie the Puget Sound Region in Washington state with other bordering  states or other states around the country?  What are the issues that Seattle shares with other major northwestern cities such as Portland (OR),  Anchorage, Vancouver (Canada), etc?  The issues can be about anything of significance such as business, politics, culture, law, etc.

2)    Native American Tribes
What are the issues that Native American Tribes are facing in or around the Puget Sound Region?

3)    Interesting Places
Take us on a journey to an interesting place(s) around the Puget Sound Region that we haven’t been before. What’s unique and fascinating about it? What does this place tell us about our region, our history or the people that inhabit it?

Explore previous grantees and their feature stories.

Kevin Whitehead is the jazz critic on NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Widely written on American and improvised musics, Whitehead's articles have appeared in publications such as the Chicago Sun-Times, Village Voice, and Down Beat. He is the author of Why Jazz: A Concise Guide (2010) and New Dutch Swing (1998), and the jazz columnist for eMusic.com. His essays have appeared in numerous anthologies including Da Capo Best Music Writing 2006, Jazz: The First Century and The Cartoon Music Book.

Whitehead taught at the University of Kansas and Goucher College. He lives outside of Austin, Texas.