The Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced a $1.5 million grant to establish the Center for Native American Radio, a centralized service bureau that will provide technical, fundraising and programmatic support to nearly 30 public radio stations serving Native American listeners.

NFCB will oversee the Center's organization and operation, which will also be guided by an advisory council of Native American station and community leaders. The Center will seek non-traditional funding sources to aid the coalition of Native stations, which serve communities from the Alaskan tundra to the Arizona pueblo to the Native American populations of America's biggest cities. In addition to fundraising, the Center will provide expertise on accounting, engineering, programming and other forms of technical assistance that small stations need to operate.

With this funding announcement, CPB is implementing the recommendations of its Native American Radio Assessment, conducted earlier this year. The NFCB funding proposal grew out of a two-day Native American public radio meeting held last April, and corresponds with findings of the CPB study. Through the work of the Center, CPB, NFCB and Native stations around the country will work to improve effectiveness and efficiency of station operations, so that listeners will benefit.

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