PBS Foundation

Fundraising

Program Venture Funds

PBS offers one of the best opportunities to invest in our country's social capital. No other media enterprise is better structured with its national/local model of service, or more experienced in the use of technology, or better positioned with its high level of public trust, to capture additional value in the digital age.

The PBS Foundation's Program Venture Funds are platform-neutral investments that help transform PBS from a public broadcasting system to a public service media organization.

Program Venture Funds are genre-specific pools of money for programming and content. The Foundation ensures that these funds are "platform-neutral," meaning they can be used for content across all technologies – on-air, online, digital, streaming, mobile, downloadable, on-demand and via whatever technologies come along next.

The four categories of Program Venture Funds include:

• News & Public Affairs
• Science & Nature
• Arts, Culture & History
• Children's Programming & Lifelong Education

To find out more about Program Venture Funds at the PBS Foundation, please call 703-739-5051 or email pbsfoundation@pbs.org.