We’ve launched our 10 day fundraising campaign, check it out here.
The Valley Labor Report is the largest union radio program in the South. A majority of our funding comes from unions, but a significant minority of our funding – indeed, the largest single source of funding – comes from our listeners.
Listener funding helps keep us independent, and gives us a steady and sustainable source of income. We value our ability to speak our minds, even when some leaders might disagree, and that’s a big reason we believe we’ve been as successful as we have been.
Because of our reliance on listener funding, we need to do fundraising campaigns like this occasionally, on something of an annual basis. This year, we’ve set a goal of $10,000. This will increase the portion of our funding coming from listeners, replace some sponsorships that have fallen off, and help us maintain. We’re setting a stretch goal of $15,000 too – if we can reach that, this will further stabilize the project and we might even be able to get on another radio station with the funding. Additionally – the project employs 4 people on a part time basis doing behind the scenes work like operating the board, and audio and video post production work – and we’d like to give them a raise (they do a great job don’t they folks??)
We’ve got some really cool prizes for donations and an award for reaching the stretch goal that we think everyone will like – so please, make a donation if you can! We’ll run this campaign through November 23.
Here are some of the gifts you can get for donating:
- DONATE $25 and you’ll get two TVLR matchbooks
- DONATE $75 and you’ll get two TVLR matchbooks + your name mentioned on stream on 17, 23, and 30 November shows
- DONATE $150 and you’ll get two TVLR matchbooks + your name mentioned on stream + a free UNIONIZE tee + a TVLR sticker
- DONATE $250 and you’ll get two TVLR matchbooks + your name mentioned on stream + a free UNIONIZE tee + a TVLR sticker + a free TVLR logo cap
IF WE HIT OUR STRETCH GOAL OF $15,000
We will have a live show in the city with the largest number of individuals donating
If that’s not enough incentives to donate – I don’t know what would be. What are you waiting for???