Money:

Most money made from licensing of characters which appear in these television shows to toy, clothing and other merchandising companies.

Financing Production Projects:

There are number of ways to finances CTP projects. CTP producers can take advantage of government grants and nonprofit organizations that fund educational and learning projects for children.

Public Grants-

1. US Department of Education: Ready to Learn Television gives grants for CTP projects.

Program Type: Cooperative Agreements, Discretionary/Competitive Grants

Program Description: This program supports the development of: (1) educational programming for preschool and early elementary school children and their families; (2) educational television programming and ancillary materials to increase school readiness for young children; and (3) accompanying support materials and services that promote the effective use of educational programming.

Types of Projects: In FY 2005, this program was divided into programming (# 84.295A) and outreach (# 84.295B) components in order to encourage higher performance in reaching the target audience. Grants have been awarded to develop scientifically based children’s television programming on reading, whereby grantees will create and build upon current high quality and innovative children’s programs focused on reading.

Awards:

Ready to Learn Partnership

Ready to Learn Programming Proposal

Ready to Learn Outreach Proposal

Visit: http://www.ed.gov/programs/rtltv/index.html for details

2. Independent Television Service (ITVS): ITVS funds, presents and promotes award-winning documentaries and dramas on public television and cable, innovative new media projects on the Web. www.itvs.org

3. National Edowment for the Humanities (NEH): www.neh.gov

4. Corporation for Public Broadcasting: CPB is a private nonprofit organization created in 1967 with a mission s to facilitate the development of, and ensure universal access to, non-commercial high-quality programming and telecommunications services  http://www.cpb.org/grants/

5. National Edowments for the Arts: provides grants to organizations that are involved in a broad spectrum of activity in the media arts- film, radio and television. http://arts.endow/gov/grants/apply/index.html#

6. National Edowment for Children’s Educational Television: funded shows for three years from 1993-1995. Although Congress has not appropriated funds since 1995, it would be a good place to check if they start refunding. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/otiahome/necet/necethm.html