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FRONTLINE/World works with a variety of educational,
community, corporate and civic partners to develop effective
ways to build global awareness and understanding within their
communities. For a full list of organizations engaged with FRONTLINE/World
visit our partners page. We encourage
you to use FRONTLINE/World within your own community.
Here's how...
   
Think globally, discuss locally.
Create your own world event using a FRONTLINE/World
story as a platform for discussion. You might use our stories
to spark panel discussions with local experts, as Harvard University's
Carr Center for Human Rights does. Or follow the lead of the
World Affairs Council of Northern California, which has hosted
evenings of conversation with noted commentator Andrei Codrescu
and other FRONTLINE/World journalists. You might even
develop online chats between your Web community and a FRONTLINE/World
journalist, like the Washington Post Online does.
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"Students really
related to the speaker, [FRONTLINE/World journalist]
Amanda Pike. She gave students ideas on the type of journalism
you can do to make a difference -- and showed that you
can make a difference as a young journalist. Attendance
was better than expected. ... looking forward to working
with FRONTLINE/World again."
--Ava Greenwell,
Associate Dean, Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern
University
"Fantastic! The stories
really spoke to our audience base and were in an easy
format to preview and screen. Since we show mostly fiction,
the documentaries balanced our programming and gave it
more depth."
--Camille Ramani,
3rd I
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Organize an ongoing discussion series.
Explore a topic, region or idea at length by developing an ongoing
discussion series using multiple FRONTLINE/World stories.
Expect lively conversation and in-depth understanding to ensue,
which is what has happened when students and community members
at U.C. Berkeley's International House use FRONTLINE/World
to examine each region of the world over the course of a
school year.
Go public with global concerns.
Contact the Community Outreach department at your local PBS
station about possible support for your FRONTLINE/World
events, panel discussions and more. Some PBS stations may
be able to contribute venues, promotional assistance or other
resources. FRONTLINE/World offers modest grants to PBS
stations willing to work with their community to support programs
exploring global issues. For more information, send us an email:
frontlineworld@flworld.org.
Organize a world film festival.
Launch an international film or video festival using
FRONTLINE/World stories. The South Asian film organization
3rd I packed the house for its screening of three FRONTLINE/World
South Asia stories, on Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka. 3rd
I found these documentaries a worthy complement to its fictional
features.
Network around the world.
FRONTLINE/World partners enjoy added visibility and
credibility. Promotional partners range from globally conscious
companies, such as Lonely Planet, a publisher of in-depth travel
guides, to notable nonprofits, including the Association of
American Colleges and Universities and its 800 member schools.
Promotional partners might co-host special events and reciprocate
Web site links and special mentions in publications, newsletters
and press releases. Send us an email frontlineworld@flworld.org
to explore the possibilities.
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Best Practices
From Public Television Stations
Common Grounds.
KEET/Eureka is partnering with Humboldt State
University's Multicultural Center to use the FRONTLINE/World
story "Coffee Country," along with music and food from
the countries featured in it, to engage a range of community
groups in dialogue around issues of global trade. The
discussion won't end there: They will bring a host of
other PBS programs into the picture over the next year,
sharing tasks, ideas and resources with their growing
list of partners to explore issues of globalization.
The Global Generation.
FRONTLINE/World will kick off WNET/New York's
Human Rights 101 initiative, where educators and students
from 15 area high schools will create their own human
rights screening and discussion events and related projects
over the course of the school year. WXXI/Rochester
is partnering with Wilson Magnet High School students
from clubs with an academic and international focus, such
as Amnesty International, Model U.N. and the study abroad
program. WXXI outreach professionals will facilitate a
FRONTLINE/World screening and discussion at the
school, then encourage other area educators and schools
to adopt this model in their classrooms by creating and
broadcasting a video interstitial throughout the year.
The Diplomat Next Door.
When WJCT/Jacksonville learned that several former
U.S. ambassadors lived in their market, it formed a partnership
with the World Affairs Council and Jacksonville Community
Council Forward to invite these diplomats to co-host a
screening and discussion covered by WJCT's daily public
affairs program. This use of local experts promotes discussions
around current world issues while providing local insight
on how Americans are viewed abroad.
"KEET is thrilled to partner with FRONTLINE/World
in starting community dialogue on global issues. FRONTLINE/World
is helping us make stories and issues around the globe
relevant to our viewers."
--Claire Reynolds, KEET/Eureka
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