Thursday, 2 September 2010
09:47PM

Kresge Challenge Grant


Make a generous gift to WOSU to help us meet a $500,000 Challenge Grant from The Kresge Foundation. Your gift will contribute to our raising the dollars necessary to claim this important grant. Thank you for your support of WOSU Public Media.


WOSU@COSI is open to the public!

Our new media center is here! Visitors will be greetd by our digital welcome mat, and can see themselves on U•TV, an interactive exhibit where you can explore the art and science of television production. You can also take a peek inside our new studios. more...
The mission of WOSU Public Media is to enrich lives through programming and community services that educate, inform, entertain, and inspire. Community support is our largest source of unrestricted funding. Your gift today means so much to our central Ohio community.

Please join, renew, or give an additional gift today by using our secure online pledge form.


You can also mail your check or credit card information to:

WOSU Public Media
2400 Olentangy River Road
Columbus, OH 43210

or call (614) 292-9678.

Thank you.		   Battelle Gives $1.6 Million to WOSU for Digital Media Center at COSI
“WOSU@ COSI is a nationally unique media center because it integrates the power of public media into the experience of a major science education museum. By its very nature, it will promote life-long learning and creative thinking, and Battelle is proud to support such a meaningful endeavor.” –Carl Kohrt, Battelle President and CEO

How does your support of WOSU impact children’s education?
Our Ready To Learn program annually serves more than 8,800 children throughout 11 Ohio counties. Over 100 Ready To Learn workshops are held throughout the year for more than 1,500 parents, childcare providers and other early childhood professionals. The workshops include the distribution of 3,000 books to help children start their personal libraries.

“I look around my day care and I see things I have learned from WOSU…I see the children I care for using those skills and passing them on to their parents and to other children.” – WOSU Viewer and Home Care Provider

Murrills Gift to Impact Children’s Future Though Outreach and Education
“We firmly believe that children’s experiences early in life greatly influence their ability to be successful academically and socially. By supporting WOSU’s outreach efforts in this area, we hope to make a positive difference in the lives of Columbus’ children and create a legacy in a community that gave us so much.” – Tom Murrill, Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer for Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd.

 

Birth of Ohio Stadium

Met with initial opposition, the famed Ohio Stadium became one of several preeminent landmarks in Ohio and a nationally recognized symbol of collegiate football.    more...

Beethoven Live from Cologne

Sir Gilbert Levine conducts a performance of Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, recorded in Cologne Cathedral during the 2005 World Youth Day celebrations in Germany. This was the first time that Missa Solemnis, Beethoven’s monumental spiritual masterpiece, had ever been performed in Cologne Cathedral, Germany’s most famous church and home cathedral of Beethoven, who was a native of Bonn, just down the river Rhine from Cologne. The performance features soloists Bozena Harasimowicz, Monica Groop, Jerry Hadley, and Franz-Josef Selig, with the London Philharmonic Choir and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. more...