Development
Massachusetts’ WFCR adds to capital campaign with Cosby fundraiser
New England Public Radio in Amherst, Mass., got a helping hand earlier this month from a famous friend when listener and local ...Panel urges IRS to revisit its ‘antiquated’ nonprofit rules
Delays in conferring 501(c)3 status to startup nonprofit news organizations have stymied development of new models for producing community-based journalism, exacerbating the ...Looming sequestration cuts complicate CSG payments
With the increasing likelihood that budget cuts once thought to be too big to take effect will slash spending across the federal ...Houston station boosts security as DJ faces identity theft charge
A volunteer DJ has been charged with stealing donors’ credit card information from a Houston radio station and using it to make ...Second pubTV station pays fine for missteps handling federal grants
When the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Massachusetts announced a settlement with Boston’s WGBH over its handling of $60 million in federal grant ...WGBH settles with Justice Department over alleged mishandling of federal grants
This item has been updated and reposted with additional information. WGBH has agreed to pay more than $300,000 in a civil settlement ...IPM offers to bridge PTV stations to spectrum auctions
Independent Public Media has unveiled a new program to provide bridge funding to financially troubled pubTV stations. The loans will help them ...Basic memberships: More trouble than they’re worth?
Basic memberships offered during pledge drives and in direct-mail appeals are a time-tested enticement for converting pubcasting viewers and listeners into contributors, ...Seven rules for station execs to succeed in fundraising
More than a decade ago, I was appearing on-air during a television pledge drive when a phone bank volunteer said a caller ...Winning members at their doors
One of the most promising new membership initiatives to come along for public television in years doesn’t involve phone banks, on-air pitches ...Sponsor churn, ebb in digital cut into NPR’s bottom line
With one of its biggest corporate sponsors pulling back from a multiyear underwriting commitment, NPR has an uphill climb to rebuild its ...WCNY-TV is ‘stronger and moving in a better direction’
When WCNY-TV announced that its September 2007 pledge drive would be its last, skeptics predicted the new policy would be short-lived.Public media’s “value” derived from service to local communities
To the editors: Amanda Hirsch asks if the “value proposition” for public media is different today from what it was in the ...Kickstarter crowd backs Seabrook’s Decode DC
Former NPR correspondent Andrea Seabrook, who covered Congress until departing in July to launch an independent podcast called Decode DC, crossed the finish line ...Hawaii Public Radio overcomes challenges to win prize for outstanding fundraising
DEI gives its Benchmarks Award each year to a consistently top-performing station in terms of net revenue per hour of listening. While ...
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