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The following comments are from various partners who are working on ITVS campaigns. "The Community Connections Project has greatly enhanced our opportunities to expand our outreach into all corners of the state. Being an 11-station statewide network, with a small outreach staff, the expertise of our CCP contact in assisting us to identify audiences for screenings and facilitate discussions has greatly enhanced our efforts. This extension of our networking through Community Connections has been a very valuable asset as UNC-TV tries to increase and extend our broadcast signal's potential as a springboard for discussion." - MaryCay Corr, UNC-TV, North Carolina 
"The Community Connections Project is in perfect alignment with the goals of the Citizen Academy. Together, Hands On Atlanta and ITVS reach broad audiences to offer information about issues of social justice and world events. The film series promotes dialogue among viewers and inspires them to consider new perspectives for improving our community." - Gary L. Turner, Deputy Managing Director, Hands On Atlanta
"The ITVS Community Connections Project for POETIC LICENSE presented me with a way to reach teachers and students and involve them in new ways to look at poetry as a written and performance art that is relevant to their lives. I feel that the connections I made through the ITVS CCP will help me create a rich resource for Philadelphia teachers and students." - Vera Davinci, English Language Arts Coordinator Philadelphia Public School District
"ITVS's Community Connections Project has a clear vision about citizen involvement. It demonstrates the importance of understanding and strategically working within the community." - Maria Alvarez Stroud, Executive Director National Center for Outreach (NCO)
"I thought the viewing session was great. ITVS, through its Community Connections Project, brought together government agencies, community organizations, individuals and prisoners' families who in the past often did not work together but share a common interest. It was truly a community connected." - Alice Arceneaux, Executive Director Reconciliation Ministries
"I really admire ITVS's Community Connections Project. It's a model for outreach that smartly utilizes field organizers who are already plugged into the communities they serve. The result is a rich, new mix of relationships and resources for public television that presents a win-win-win for producers, stations, and audiences." - Cheryl A. Head, Director, Outreach and Diversity Programming Corporation for Public Broadcasting
"I know for KUED, the Community Connections Project has helped us bring organizations with similar goals together, and community members together to discuss important issues related to programs. The discussions we hold after screenings, whether informal or highly structured, are crucial to opening dialogue in our community. They also help populations who are underserved by traditional media feel that they have a voice." - Mary Dickson KUED-TV, Salt Lake City, UT
"In the period of four months, the CCP team created a comprehensive and visually striking viewer's guide, accompanying postcards and a broad itinerary of community screenings and events around the country. These events brought together civic leaders, community-based organizations and ordinary citizens to grapple with the issues of anti-gay prejudice in the Boy Scouts of America. CCP representatives did a stellar job of creating forums for people to examine and discuss extremely volatile and emotionally radioactive issues in non-threatening environments.... As ITVS becomes an even stronger and important voice in the public television arena, it is heartening to observe its commitment to outreach.... As an independent producer whose films seek to inform and challenge our citizenry, please know how thankful we are for the support of CCP in the ongoing outreach of SCOUT'S HONOR." - Tom Shepard, producer, SCOUT'S HONOR
"There was uniform reaction to the POETIC LICENSE event throughout the company, a very positive series of partnerships demonstrating what I believe is the best in community and public broadcasting connections - at a very poignant time for our viewers to be involved with and thinking about their local station." - Walton Ray, WPBA public television, Atlanta, GA
"ITVS really understands how essential community outreach is to social issue documentaries. Working with the CCP in conjunction with the public television broadcast of OUR HOUSE not only helped me to reach my target audience nationwide, but gave me the outreach tools for future projects." - Meema Spadola, producer, OUR HOUSE: A Very Real Documentary about Kids of Gay and Lesbian Parents
"Working with Community Connections has allowed WHYY to extend its outreach efforts to new audiences, focusing on programs that otherwise might have not received sufficient attention. It's been a terrific partnership, and we look forward to a new season of programs and outreach efforts." - Arthur R. Ellis, WHYY public television, Philadelphia, PA
"Whether informing the educational community about the digital divide that separates the technological "haves" from the "have-nots" or addressing the challenges that newly-immigrated Spanish-speakers face in a Midwestern American city, having a CCP organizer in St. Louis to brainstorm and collaborate with on outreach strategies is wonderful and very beneficial to our station's outreach efforts." - Mary Pat Gallagher, KETC public television, St. Louis, MO
"The Community Connections Project offers us the opportunity to educate our organization's membership and strengthen our programming strategies." - Merlinda Gallegos, National Conference for Community and Justice, Las Vegas, NV
"KNME's involvement with ITVS for community screenings has been a very positive experience. It has not only helped make community members aware of KNME, but it has also helped start some very healthy dialogues about what the community can do to better understand their own neighbors right here in New Mexico. The use of independent films from ITVS has been a great way to start this dialogue." - Kathy Burnett KNME, Albuquerque, NM |
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