WFMU Kicks Off 24-Hour Fundraising Marathon in a Few Hours
By Jon Whiten • Nov 17th, 2009 • Category: Arts, Blog
“At WFMU we’ve always prided ourselves on being able to support ourselves on one pledge drive a year, plus whatever we can scrape together by selling roses outside the Holland Tunnel,” station manager Ken Freedman writes. “But that was before the great recession. Before we fell over $100,000 short of our goal during our March fundraiser. Before we lost our lease on our main transmitter site and set out to put an antenna in midtown Manhattan.”
To help raise much-needed funds, the nonprofit free-form radio station based on Montgomery Street is launching its first-ever 24-hour fund-raising marathon — it will run from 7 pm tonight until 7 pm tomorrow.
“Rest assured that our 24-hour Marathon will still contain that unique mix of shameless grovelling, prizes, and DJ tag teams that make WFMU marathons the fun listening experience that they always are,” Freedman writes. “We also have a brand new T-shirt and a special edition of our program guide LCD.”
To donate, visit the WFMU website. For more on why the station needs the money, check out our story on their March fundraiser.
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Jon Whiten is the founding editor of the Jersey City Independent; he now works for a public-policy nonprofit in Trenton.
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