Fort Collins Youth Broadcasting

It’s Nathan here, one of the directors on the BoD.

I’m going to be updating some of the pages around the blog, and to keep some things up to date.

As the update below says, we have postponed the Glow Golf Fundraiser due to lack of sponsors, and hopefully we will be having it in mid-August or so.

For an update on our summer pledge drive, it’s still going! We only have two pledges out of 60, so we definitely need more!

For more information on the pledge, please view https://fcyb.org/2010/07/02/summer-2010-pledge-drive/

That’s it for updates for now; and I’ll be updating some things around the site.

Nathan Bobb
nathan@fcyb.org

Update: Unfortunately, we did not have enough sponsors to host the Glow Golf Fundraiser, so we have postponed it until August 14.

On July 17th, from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM, KLIK Radio will be setup right outside Glow Golf selling tickets!  We’re going to be having a glow-in-the-dark outfit contest, a dark-in-the-dark outfit contest, hole-in-one prizes, door prizes, cool music, and much more!  Plus, it doesn’t cost any extra to get in – but additional donations are greatly appreciated. 🙂

In case you don’t know, Glow Golf is located in some awkward corner of the Foothills Fashion Mall, located at the corner-ish of College and Foothills.  Just follow the noise, and I’ll bet you can find us.

Adults and teens are $7, kids are $5, little kids are $3, seniors are $3, a 3-pack of tix is $20, and a 4-pack is $27.

See you there!

Want to see something fun?!?  Go to http://www.klikradio.org/summer/ – there is a tree with apples! For every pledge we get, an apple goes on the tree!  Isn’t that sweet??

So here’s how our summer pledge drive is working.  It’s pretty substantial, so please bare with us – $20/month for 3 months.  That’s like $20/month over the course of the summer.  We hope to get 60 people to commit to this, which will raise a whooping $3,600 for us!  That’s like 3,600 hours of airtime!

In total, all 60 people will be donating $60.  Over the course of 3 months, though, we’re hoping it’ll be a bit more bearable.

Interested in pledging?  Visit the aforementioned link and click on “Make a Pledge.”  You can then make your pledges automatically deduct from your bank account or credit card with PayPal, or you can mail us a check every month.

Thank you for your support!

I honestly have no idea how Qwest noticed our blog post about our DSL outage, but Team Qwest commented on it – it sat in our comments queue for awhile – and we finally noticed it.  As we hopefully made clear, it was not an issue with Qwest’s service, but instead was a local modem issue.  We’ve had the modem for several years now, and I suppose it finally just died.  We swapped it out, and all is well!

Unfortunately, Qwest then decided to increase our rate from $51.45/month to some $75/month.  YIKES!  While that may not seem like much at first glance, that’s a $240/year increase – a pretty significant amount to our tiny non-profit.  (That’s like a 3% increase in our annual budget).  So much for upgrading to the 7 mbps DSL. 🙁

If you participate on our pledge drive, though (next post), maybe we can still upgrade! 🙂

Unfortunately, the City of Fort Collins does not believe we fall under their definition of a charity, which is “…an organization which exclusively, and in a manner consistent with existing laws and for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons, freely and voluntarily ministers to the physical, mental or spiritual needs of persons, and which thereby lessens the burdens of government.”

In all fairness, we do not spend that much money in the local community.  In fact, virtually all of our major equipment purchases are made from specialized, out-of-state vendors such as Broadcast Supply Warehouse.  That being said, we’re not losing too much money by not having this license, and the city isn’t losing much, either.  Our largest expense, rent, isn’t taxed – and who knows if there are any city taxes in our phone bill.

Overall, we don’t consider it to be a significant loss.  Best of luck to any other non-profits who are hoping to receive an exemption!