| WGDR is Listener Supported Community Radio!
Many significant value-adding changes are in progress at WGDR, and we encourage you to become reacquainted with Central Vermont's evolving community radio station as we work toward reaching more listeners and developing our presence as an active community resource - which your support makes possible.
Become a Contributing Member of WGDR!
Stay tuned for updates regarding our next semi-annual on-air pledge drive and the new membership packages we will be offering to our contributing listeners. In exchange for your donations to our operating budget, WGDR provides unique assortments of new WGDR merchandise and more - for all contribution levels, great and small. Every donation makes a difference, regardless of the amount, and our membership packages are designed to offer everyone extra incentives to support community radio at Goddard College.
WGDR Membership Levels:
Basic: ($10)
Friend: ($25)
Maple Syrup: ($50)
Hermit Thrush: ($75)
Red Clover ($100)
Green Mountain Boy: ($200)
Dollar-a-Day: ($365)
Ethan Allen: ($500)
First Amendment: ($1000)
...or, you can always donate any amount of your choice!
Methods of payment:
- Cash: Please do not mail cash donations - they may be lost!
(we encourage you to deliver cash donations in person!)
- Check: Checks and Money Orders made payable to WGDR can be dropped off or mailed to: P.O. Box 336, Plainfield, VT 05667
- Credit Card: You can now use major credit cards for your donations online or by calling WGDR during fundraiser week and providing your credit card information over the phone.
Your donation dollars at work:
Our new broadcasting studio - completed at the turn of 2005 - along with a range of crucial equipment upgrades in recent years - a new broadcasting console, multiple source devices, and various computer-aided implements, to name a few - have all been funded primarily by listener contributions.
As we endeavor to increase the reach of our FM signal, while also expanding options for alternate listening sources - like the development of higher quality online streaming options and other alternatives to FM - we are dependent on listener donations to fuel these efforts.
In addition to our Signal Development Project, we also have an increasing need for developing our off-air production facilities, which enable us to facilitate valuable community services more effectively while expanding our active potential to produce a broader range of locally-focused programming in a professional manner. Improved production facilities are a core element in ensuring our continued growth and sustainability as a community broadcasting outlet, because these tools enhance our ability to serve as an eduational resource for volunteer participants and the public at large. The advent of our new air studio has made the need of establishing a fully-functional production studio much more significant as a necessary goal.
Community Outreach is another crucial area of operational development that we are acting on. Beginning in the winter of 2007, WGDR will offer advanced training sessions and more customized internships to all of the high schools in our service area. WGDR will also be increasingly active in collaborative projects focused on youth learning opportunities and applied media studies, as we develop alliances and partnerships with more socially responsible organizations and educational institutions.
Another important area of community servicing that we seek to improve concerns our remote broadcasting capabilities, which are currently very limited and in need of development. These on-location functions require a remote transmitter and other costly equipment that we are in the process of raising funds to support. Once this equipment is obtained, we will be capable of broadcasting all kinds of off-site events, such as public hearings, local sports, election results, municipal events and many other notable happenings that merit on-site coverage.
These three major capital campaigns - Signal Development, Production Studio Development, and Remote Broadcasting - are all integral parts of the greater whole that WGDR is becoming. In order to ensure that our evolution continues sustainably, the tens of thousands of dollars needed to follow through on these ambitious quests can only be dependably achieved through steadily increased support from the WGDR listening community, which can then be effectively supplemented by funds from project grants, foundations and Goddard College, among others. Your support is essential to WGDR's survival and growth, so...
MANY THANKS TO ALL OF YOU WHO SUPPORT
COMMUNITY RADIO AT GODDARD COLLEGE! |
