CKUA Spring Fundraiser Update

Happy Fundraising!

It is that time of year when all of our lovely volunteers and staff are hard at work! We are currently in the middle of CKUA's Spring  Fundraiser, which started on Thursday April 24th 2014 and will run until Sunday May 4th 2014.

Our main objective is to be able to provide our dedicated listeners with the best quality services. By celebrating music and engaging the community we strive to make life worth listening. Our target goal for the fundraiser is to reach $500,000 dollars in donations from our fantastic donors. Currently we are sitting at $248,304! (almost half way there!)

As many of you already know, the fundraiser does not limit our donors to a one time donation. We also allow them to become ongoing donors (or increase their already pre-existing monthly donations) as well as we offer a donated hour of broadcasting for the high rollers. For example a donation of $500 allows the donor to dedicate an hour of program on behalf of themselves or even on the behalf of a loved one  for a special occasion! However as many of you (our volunteers) know, the busiest time is during the double your dollar hours! This is the perfect time for a donor to donate because there donation will be doubled from a pool of donations we have gotten from other fantastic leadership donors. To see a list of those donors please visit http://www.ckua.com/common/medialib/376/731661.pdf .

Remember, it is never too  late to donate! You have till Sunday May 4th 2014 to donate to the Spring  Fundraiser please call 1-800-494-2582 or visit http://www.ckua.com/!

Need an incentive to donate? During the fundraiser we are giving away many prizes including a Grand Prize trip sponsored by AMA Travel with airfare and accommodation for four nights to Memphis, Tennessee! To read more about our fundraiser prizes please visit http://www.ckua.com/campaign_prizes .

The Spring Fundraiser would not have successfully started if it were not for both our volunteers and donors. A huge thank you goes out to all our fantastic volunteers that have been working hard in helping this  run smoothly. Another huge thank you goes to the generous donors that have contributed to the future success of CKUA. As well as a huge thank you to the food donors that have supplied us with w the essentials to keep our volunteers energized and motivated. For a list of participating food donors please visit http://www.ckua.com/common/medialib/376/731721.pdf . Without any of YOU we would be no where. THANK YOU on behalf of all of the staff at CKUA.

Fundraiser Feedback

First of all, we'd like to thank everyone for participating & making this Fall Fundraiser a success. Susan Campbell said it best on her last day in the office - CKUA's volunteers are filled with passion from the tops of their heads to the tips of their toes. And that passion shows in how much you do for the station.

 

Also a huge thank you as we rolled out our new platforms these past few weeks; our blog, Facebook Group & Mailchimp forms have hopefully not been too painful. But if they have been painful, we want to know about it! We have created this short (in minutes) survey in regards to your experiences with fundraiser & our new digital formats. It's all important in making sure we can continue to make your CKUA Volunteer experiences even better!

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Email Sign-ups

As the Fall Fundraiser comes to an end, I hope everyone has been having an amazing time. I know it's been great to see so many of your smiling faces around the building this week! The campaign is going great - as always, your role as volunteers is absolutely vital and we're so grateful for all the hard work you're putting in.

And because we want to continue seeing all your smiling faces around here, I just want to make sure that everyone knows how to receive email updates from this blog. Signing up for emails is completely optional, and if you don't want them, you don't have to have them. We'll continue to post blog stuff on Facebook, and if you prefer to occasionally hop on over here and check what's happening yourself, that's fine as well. But for those of you who want to receive emails, I hope this will clear up any confusion.

Signing up for emails is very simple. Just click on the "Subscribe to Emails" button along the right hand side of the blog.

This will open a page with a form on it. Fill out the form and click "Subscribe to List." You'll then receive an email that asks you to confirm your subscription. Once you follow the directions in the email, you should be subscribed!

The "Dear Volunteers" email with content from the blog sends out once a week, on Thursday evenings. If nothing changes on the blog that week, no email will send. Occasionally we may send out other emails that contains information more time sensitive - the winner of the cake draw, for instance.

If at any time you want to unsubscribe from emails or change your information, you can do so by clicking the "Unsubscribe from this list" or "Update subscription preferences" links located at the bottom of every email. You can also email us and we can make changes manually.

And that's all she wrote! If you have any concerns, issues, or questions about this blog, the emails, or even about volunteering in general, don't hesitate to ask here, on Facebook, or by email. And keep on smiling!