Listener supported community radio relies on your donations.
We will need about $30000 soon for “settlement” expenses. This money must come from you, the listeners.
Please sign up to donate here. We will call you when we need it. Any amount, no matter how small, helps get us closer to the goal.
We need donations of money, equipment, supplies, music, …….
We need some now, and pledges for more when we actually get the construction permit.
Very soon, we need money for “settlement” expenses. This is money we need to pay to get the channel. The estimated amount needed is $30000.
We have “office” expenses .. printing, phone bills, postage. We welcome donations of services. If your business provides a service, you can donate the service.
When we get the construction permit, we will need money to buy equipment. We need a transmitter, antenna, a set of required monitoring equipment, and studio equipment. We can start cheap in the studio, but can't skimp on the transmitter, antenna, and monitoring equipment. The required startup equipment is anticipated to cost about $20000 for the bare minimum. You can help us on this with a pledge of money, a promise to donate when we get the construction permit.
As soon as possible after going on the air, we need to replace the cheap startup equipment with good quality. We will need to upgrade and add CD players, computers, turntables, microphones, remote equipment, a production studio for live broadcasts, …… Sufficient donations now could mean we can start with good equipment.
We can also use donations of equipment, including some that is longer mainstream, …. reel-to-reel tape deck, turntables, cassette deck, ….. We can use computers, CD players, and used studio equipment too.
We also need program material. The music companies give us a good deal, so new CD's are cheap, but with our kind of diverse programming, we need lots of them. We need money for this.
You can help us a lot by donating records. We are most interested in old recordings that are no longer available. We like vinyl and 78's, of all genres.
To donate equipment, records, services, call Al Davis, 810-496-1473, radio@flintradio.org
To donate money, send payment to:
Flint Acorn
436 S. Saginaw St.
Flint, MI 48503
Make checks payable to “Acorn Institute”. Be sure to indicate that it is for Flint Community Radio.
Acorn Institute is a 501-c-3 organization, so your donations could be tax deductable. Please contact your tax advisor for more information.
Our most urgent need is pledges of money for “settlement”. We need it now, so we can file a settlement agreement. When we do this, our license will be a sure thing.
You can pledge now, with a promise to donate in the future. We will call you when we need it.