What Matters to You
As GBH continues to create award-winning, innovative programs across platforms in journalism, science, children’s media and education and history, arts and culture, we rely on your support. Explore our latest programs, events and services and discover ways you can help.
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Journalism
From FRONTLINE and World Channel to GBH News, GBH is dedicated to delivering live and streamed coverage of news and analysis, events and podcasts, providing context and unbiased reporting to audiences across the region and country.
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American television’s flagship news and public affairs series, FRONTLINE has set the standard for thoughtful, independent journalism and hard-hitting investigations since 1983. Holding powerful people, companies, institutions and systems to account, FRONTLINE has won every major journalism award, including 104 Emmys.
This same energy and dedication thrives in our local programs like GBH News, Boston Public Radio, Talking Politics and Basic Black. With live and streaming coverage, digital series, events and podcasts, GBH News provides content wherever our audiences are seeking news, analysis and unbiased reporting and offers a wide range of opportunities for our audiences to engage, comment and connect with our reporters and editors.
For more information about including FRONTLINE, GBH News or other journalism-based programs in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122
“The kind of in-depth investigative journalism we practice at FRONTLINE is thoughtful, rigorous, and time-intensive. Major gifts to the FRONTLINE Journalism Fund allow us to deliver our reporting on the platforms to which it is best suited and to ensure that our journalism is accessible to all.“
Science
Whether it is examining the mysteries of the universe or focusing on cultural and historical accuracy, NOVA is helping to reshape the science media landscape. By demonstrating how the scientific process works and how powerful it can be in revealing and transforming our world, NOVA continues to build widespread engagement with science.
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Science affects all of us, in different ways in different communities. We have confronted a global pandemic while also wrestling with the challenges of climate change. We are witnessing unparalleled discoveries in space and genetics while also confronting racial and gender inequities within the sciences. NOVA’s distinctive storytelling sheds light on the deepest mysteries of the natural world and the latest breakthroughs in technology.
“The greater the public understanding of the scientific process and the more equipped the public is to make fact-based decisions, the healthier and more prepared for the future our society will be.”
Chris Schmidt, Co-executive Producer, NOVA
Gifts to the NOVA Science Trust support the research, development and production of NOVA films, digital content and educational and outreach activities.
For more information about including NOVA in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122
“At NOVA, we’ve always been dedicated to making the power and joy of scientific discovery accessible to everyone. This work has become even more urgent, because science plays a major role in so many of the most pressing challenges that are facing us today.“
Children’s Media & Education
All of GBH’s educational content for children stems from our approach to respond to our communities and audiences, as well as include them and represent them in our programming, resources and events.
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For 50 years, GBH Kids’ groundbreaking children’s programming has emphasized inclusion, a sense of connection and acceptance while emphasizing health and emotional well-being. The GBH Education team, working with communities and educators, continually creates quality media resources for both formal and informal learning spaces, offered for free and available nationwide through PBS LearningMedia.
For more information about including Children’s Programming in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122
“Public media plays a powerful role in supporting educational achievement for all children. GBH’s engaging popular media are designed to support equitable learning and represent diverse cultures and perspectives, vastly increasing the potential for educational impact.“
History, Arts & Culture
Producing and presenting arts programming is a critical part of our mission — connecting communities and audiences through free, accessible offerings. For all of our audiences, GBH opens up the worlds of music, drama, history and cultural arts through programming, podcasts, events and digital resources.
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“MASTERPIECE has earned the respect and loyalty of its audience over five wonderful decades, and I hope that our dedicated viewers will help us keep the legacy alive and ensure that our series remains a vital part of the television landscape.”
Rebecca Eaton, Executive Producer-at-large, MASTERPIECE
The reach and scope of GBH arts programs attest to the enduring value and power of art to connect us, reveal new worlds and help us find new links to our past and future. Together we find community, levity and escape through programs like MASTERPIECE’s All Creatures Great and Small, Around the World in 80 Days, and the Jane Austen-based Sanditon; AMERICAN EXPERIENCE biographical films history documentaries; and 24/7 access to classical music on 99.5 CRB.
“This world yearns for the transcendence and beauty that classical music brings, and we at CRB are driven by our mission to make classical music accessible to all. We are dedicated to bringing our audiences the gift of great music—whenever and wherever they choose to listen and/or watch.”
Anthony Rudel, General Manager GBH Music and CRB Station Manager
For more information about including MASTERPIECE, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, CRB Classical 99.5, ANTIQUES ROADSHOW or any of your favorite arts programs in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122
“As our society grapples with questions of equality, fairness, and representation, we have a responsibility to show that American history belongs to all of us.“
Other programs and initiatives that matter to you
- GBH Voices and Equity Fund: Inspiring Positive Change
- NEH Challenge: GBH Media Library and Archives
- GBH Planet Future Fund: Amplifying Climate and Environmental Issues
- The Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR stations
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Core to fulfilling GBH’s mission is our aim to foster greater awareness and appreciation for diverse perspectives; share untold narratives; provide spaces for all voices to be heard; and support families and communities—with the intent of inspiring positive change.
GBH Voices and Equity Fund: Inspiring Positive Change
Core to fulfilling GBH’s mission is responding to the needs and interests of under-served and historically excluded communities. Through our work, we aim to foster greater awareness and appreciation for diverse perspectives; shine a light on inequities and injustice, share untold narratives and provide spaces for all voices to be heard with the intent of inspiring positive change.
We are committing to fully integrating Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access at GBH, making it a part of everything we do.
Gifts to our newly-established GBH Voices and Equity Fund will allow us to sustain our ongoing commitments to diversity, equity, inclusion and access, help launch innovative new work, and allow us to respond quickly to needs and opportunities as they emerge.
“Equity is one of my favorite words when we talk about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access. Equity is access, opportunity, support, and the removal of systemic and structural barriers. It considers the diverse needs presented by an individual or group. At GBH, we are operationalizing equity in all aspects of what we do, how we do it and whom we engage with. This focus shines a light on the gaps and improves access for all!”
Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates, GBH Chief Inclusion and Equity Officer
NEH Challenge: GBH Media Library and Archives
Racing Against Time
With nearly one million audio, video, film and digital assets dating to 1947, GBH has one of the nation’s most important public media archives, chronicling many of the most critical cultural and historical events of our time. This rich record of American history—news, arts and culture, science, children’s programming and more—is increasingly vulnerable to deterioration and must be preserved for future generations.
“We are in a fight against time to digitize and preserve our audio and visual heritage. This content will be unusable in five to ten years if we don’t act now.”
Karen Cariani, David O. Ives Executive Director, GBH Media Library and Archives
GBH Planet Future Fund: Amplifying Climate and Environmental Issues
The health and well-being of our planet, and the urgent need to mitigate the effects of climate change are areas of critical importance that GBH has long been committed to addressing. The GBH Planet Future Fund (PFF) supports programs across the organization that amplify climate and environmental issues with an eye toward illuminating practical, equitable and sustainable solutions to the current climate crisis, both locally and nationally.
“The effects of climate change are impacting all of us, and we believe everyone has a personal responsibility to do more. GBH and its programs reach and inspire millions of people all over the world, and we have always been proud to invest resources with GBH. We hope our philanthropy will motivate others to support this important work now and well into the future.”
Lynn Dayton, Vice Chair, GBH Board of Trustees, Fund sponsor
For more information about including Media Library and Archives, environmental programming or efforts toward Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Access in your estate plans, please contact:
Julie Hallowell
Director of Gift Planning and Endowment
gift_planning@wgbh.org
800.220.7122
The Cape, Coast, and Islands NPR stations
WCAI 90.1, WNAN 91.1, and WZAI 94.3 are listener-supported public radio stations serving Cape Cod, Nantucket, Martha’s Vineyard, and the South Coast. Founded by local residents, the stations are a service of GBH Radio. We strive to celebrate the uniqueness of the communities that we serve while discussing common issues. Help ensure that CAI will remain a significant source of information, education, and entertainment for generations to come.
CAI is part of the GBH Educational Foundation and is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt, charitable organization headquartered at One Guest Street, Boston, MA 02135. Our federal tax identification number is 04-2104397.
For more information about CAI’s Planned Giving Program:
E-mail: Founders_Circle_CAI@capeandIslands.org or call (508) 548-9600, x2769.
Our Fundraising Programs
Restrict your bequest to support the program or service that means the most to you. Directed gifts are critical to the research, development, production, and distribution of every program, project, and initiative created at GBH for both national and local audiences.
These contributions provide GBH the ability to:
- Finish funds, support the completion of a project—the process of getting the project on the air, on the Web, or out into the community, and maximize audience reach and impact.
- Plan ahead and invest in new projects and initiatives in the pipeline
- Secure the future of your favorite program
- Continue the Foundation’s mission of enriching people’s lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives
Explore the various funding initiatives and programs that you can make a lasting impact:
Local radio programming: 99.5 WCRB
This world yearns for the transcendence and beauty that classical music brings, and we at CRB are driven by our mission to make classical music accessible to all. Philanthropic support bolsters our ability to offer audiences a transportive experience by bringing them the gift of great music—whenever and wherever they choose to listen and/or watch.
Anthony Rudel, General Manager GBH Music and WCRB Station Manager.
Media Library and Archives, Voices and Equity Fund, Planet Future Fund
“Equity is one of my favorite words when we talk about Diversity Equity Inclusion and Access. Equity is access, opportunity, support, and the removal of systemic and structural barriers. It considers the diverse needs presented by an individual or group. At GBH, we are operationalizing equity in all aspects of what we do, how we do it and whom we engage with. This focus shines a light on the gaps and improves access for all!”
Yemisi Oloruntola-Coates, GBH Chief Inclusion and Equity Officer
WCAI
At WCAI, we strive to celebrate the uniqueness of the communities that we serve while discussing common issues and help ensure that WCAI will remain a significant source of information, education, and entertainment resource for generations to come.
National Programs (NOVA, MPT, Frontline, AmEx, Antiques)
As our society grapples with questions of equality, fairness, and representation, we have a responsibility to show that American history belongs to all of us, and we should all be a part of the telling and interpretation of it.
Cameo George, Executive Producer, American Experience
Children's programming
Terry Fitzpatrick, GBH Vice President, Children’s Media and Education
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