Fort Collins Youth Broadcasting

Yay for sponsors! KLIK Radio has picked up an awesome sponsor, COhomefinder.com. If you’re looking to buy a house in Fort Collins, they’ve got a pretty sweet site setup.

Unfortunately, we spent 80% of their contribution on one month’s rent, but that’s okay.

More sponsorship opportunities are available! We almost had Midnight Munchies, but unfortunately they went out of business just very shortly after their inception. Kudos to their founders for being willing to hear us out, though. If you are a business that wants to see more traffic from young people (16-24), give us a call or e-mail!

In a shocking move, Fort Collins Youth Broadcasting applied for sales tax exemption today from the State of Colorado. Unfortunately, most of our spending is done with out-of-state vendors, since the number of broadcast equipment suppliers in Colorado is, well, slim or non-existent.

Once we receive our certificate from the state, we can then apply for exemption from city and county sales taxes. Being treasurer, I know that we spend very little on sales tax – but it might add up over a few years.

If you are a tax professional, I’d love to speak with you! Our gracious hosts for our upcoming fundrasier, Bas Bleu Theater, have told us that we’ll have to collect sales tax at our event, despite the fact that the entire event is for a charity. If you have any information on this, please feel free to contact me, Jake, at jake@fcyb.org.

This brings me to my next point – our Silence for Sound fundraiser! Peter hasn’t posted any updates lately, but I do know that we already have a few bands on board, and I’m under the impression that Peter has a ton of incredible artwork to put up for auction. Like two years ago, novelty items like massages, catering, and other services may be offered…but no guarantees yet.

If you are a local business, artist, or musician and want to donate something to our organization, please contact Peter at peter@fcyb.org. Most (if not all) donations are tax-deductible! Plus, this year, admission to Silence for Sound will be free! I’m also going to try to convince Peter to allow pizza sales for the hungry 😉

We’re still selling Elitch’s tickets! They’re only $19.99 (or $20), and are available for purchase by visiting http://bit.ly/elitchs. Please remember that cash payments are incredibly difficult for us to accept, since our studio is very rarely staffed. Cash transactions can easily happen at school, though, so talk to your kids to see if they know any KLIK volunteers at school! PayPal payments are easiest, and checks are just fine, too.

Board of director nominations are also happening right now! The ballot already has about 5 to 7 names on it (the exact number is currently eluding me) – so there’s a lot of initiative being taken with our volunteers right now – which is awesome!

Finally!

As I’m sure many of you knew, FCYB had a $10 membership fee in place for a few months. We created the fee as a method to ensure steady income into the organization. As it turns out, though, that stream of income wasn’t so steady as we were hoping.

A few members fell dramatically behind on their payments, some as far behind as 4 months. Further, I don’t think any member ever paid on time (dues were technically due on the third of each month).

My parents always thought membership dues were a good idea. They felt that if people were paying to be a part of an organization, they’d do more to support it since they are actually paying to be a part of it. Clearly they don’t know teenagers very well, because the exact opposite is true. If they pay to be a part of it, they expect to do *nothing* in return. Not saying our volunteers are lazy or anything. They work very hard. 😉

Anyways, point being – the membership dues were just a hassle to maintain in the books and a hassle to get collected and deposited, and it never turned out well for anyone. So from hereon out, for as long as we possibly can, membership dues are terminated!

We obviously encourage those who can continue supporting KLIK Radio to donate whatever they can swing each month. Plus, we speculate that if donations are voluntary, they’ll give a tad bit more 😉

So! End of the drama. Sort of. We still need to sell 34 tickets by the 14th to pay for our insurance bill. So please. Buy some tickets.

KLIK Radio might be getting a facelift! Check it out: http://klikradio.org/new/ – if you like it, feel free to comment on this post or send us an e-mail!