Kling Innovation Grants

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Kling Innovation Grants are awarded to internal teams to test or launch new entrepreneurial projects within APMG, supporting our mission to create the future of public media by amplifying voices to inform, include, and inspire.

*** FY25 Round II Applications CLOSED ***
FY26 Round I Applications Open May 1, 2025

What constitutes an entrepreneurial project?

  • It’s a creative and bold idea that connects to APMG’s mission, vision, values, and strategic plan.

  • It has a sustainable business model (the potential to generate revenue to pay for itself in the future and/or provide incremental revenue to the organization.)

  • It leverages APMG content, audiences, technology, reputation, facilities, or business relationships and/or a significant new effort with an external partner.

Do you have questions about the grant process or ideas you want to discuss? Contact the head of your team/division or Jeff Freeland Nelson at Glen Nelson Center.

If you can explain it well enough, sooner or later you will find someone who will back the idea, and then you will demonstrate it, audiences will react to it. And once an audience gets a hold of it, you are home free."

— Bill Kling