Development
How classical music stations can grow donations by tapping ‘tribes’ within audiences
Under the "Community of Communities" model, stations can team up with local nonprofits to leverage donations and cross-promotion.With new MPB offering, donors can support pubmedia through credit, debit purchases
Mississippi Public Broadcasting is the first public media organization to work with Softgiving, a financial technology company that lets donors round up ...Why hasn’t pubmedia held one big pledge drive?
A public TV programmer sees an opportunity for public media to raise awareness about its uniquely noncommercial mission.Seattle music station KEXP receives its largest gift ever
Building relationships with donors through a capital campaign led KEXP to a $10 million bequest.With new building, Rocky Mountain Public Media aims to become a center for community, pubcasters ...
The Denver-based statewide radio and TV network has raised 75 percent of its $30 million goal, including $14 million over the last ...New York state stations receive grants for health coverage
WRVO Public Media in Oswego and WBFO in Buffalo are receiving $64,000 and $40,000, respectively.Pittsburgh’s WESA, WYEP receive $1.65M from local foundations
The Henry L. Hillman Foundation and the Richard King Mellon Foundation have each awarded grants to the nonprofit that operates WESA and ...CDP and TRAC Media Services collaborate to help stations analyze Passport data
A common challenge for stations is managing the data on giving and viewing behavior captured by the on-demand video service for donors.Merger unites three companies with pubmedia clients
Allegiance Software, DMW Fundraising and Member Benefits are joining under the banner of the Allegiance Fundraising Group.Sesame Workshop and International Rescue Committee win $100M MacArthur grant
The nonprofits partnered to win a five-year grant to educate children displaced by conflict in the Middle East.Key decision ahead: How to improve Passport experience for viewers, stations
Passport supporters argue that its performance to date has demonstrated its impact, while critics caution that it’s too early to know how ...News Match kicks off with $3 million for nonprofit newsrooms
The Democracy Fund, the Knight Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation are collaborating to match contributions to nonprofit news organizations through the end ...NPR wine club includes broadcaster-inspired offerings
NPR boasts that its wines are “selected by a team of globetrotting experts, who taste over 40,000 wines a year and choose ...With new app, a startup wants to make donating to public radio easy
iWinQ's developers hope to make inroads among listeners who don't donate — a large share of public radio's audience.WNET finds benefits in curtailing campaign-style pledge drives
The New York public TV station charted growth in viewership and membership revenues after confining on-air fundraising to dedicated time slots.
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