Hi Friend of Campus & Community Radio!
Guess what???….It’s that time of year again to support the Voice of Calgary! Since October 1st, supporters of independent, community media have been visiting www.cjsw.com/donate to make their donation for the 2024 CJSW Funding Drive campaign.
As is our custom every year, your friends and neighbours at CJSW come up with a unique theme to support our annual fundraising efforts. Our 2024 theme of “Sounds of Radiotown” is something we are really proud of and think you will love it too. For this year’s campaign, CJSW worked with Edmonton-based artist, Bridget Trout, to create this year’s artwork that is evocative of a fun, vibrant, busy community. This artwork is featured prominently on all Funding Drive t-shirts, mugs, sweatshirts and more and is available now!
This year, CJSW is delighted to partner with our friends at Last Best Brewing & Distilling to create the Radio Town lager. Keep an eye out for this crisp, American-styled lager at your favourite liquor store, bar/venue or at the Last Best taproom. A portion of each Radio Town lager sale will go towards CJSW’s 2024 Funding Drive.
In case you didn’t know, each and every week on every hour of the day, CJSW volunteers – your friends, family and neighbours – broadcast music and spoken word programming in over 9 languages spanning more than 110 programs. Every year during Funding Drive, we focus all of our energies to encourage our listeners and the communities we serve to give the financial support needed to operate and grow Calgary’s preeminent independent media source. Our incredible community of supporters donate close to $250,000 annually, which is invested directly back into the station and its broadcast. Funding Drive donations directly pay for our broadcast tower lease, website maintenance, technical support, marketing and just about any other non-staff expense associated with broadcasting 24 hours a day on multiple platforms. Moreover, Funding Drive has allowed for CJSW to grow and evolve to better serve our growing audiences. We are honoured to call Calgary home and this amazing community is a major reason why the CJSW Funding Drive is the most successful community radio fundraising annual event of its kind in Canada.
During the telethon week of October 18-October 25, listeners can also call (403) 220-5000 directly to make their donation OR online at cjsw.com/donate. This is one of the best weeks of the year to listen to CJSW programming as the passion, energy and excitement of everyone is focused on reaching our 2024 fundraising goal of $200,000.
With the option to pay in monthly instalments and name-your-own donation, it’s easier than ever for any listener to donate and can proudly say that they have helped this essential local connector of communities to continue to operate and grow. Giving your support on www.cjsw.com/donate means easy access to our monthly instalment plan, the ability to name the particular CJSW program that your support goes towards, in addition to name-your-own donation options. Donation levels starting at $35 enable donors to receive the legendary Friends Card – your annual passport to discounts at some of Calgary’s best independent businesses…..The first 500 donors to this year’s campaign will receive a limited edition CJSW Sounds of Radiotown magnet, so get your donation in today!
Many thanks in advance for your support and keep it locked to CJSW!!!
All the best,
Adam Kamis