We had a great board meeting on the Monday before Thanksgiving. It was a refreshing time of looking over the last few months, reviewing our progress. We have come a long way since a year ago when our application with the FCC had us on pins and needles! We have our station construction permit, our 501(c)3 status, and a growing pile of equipment and content.

Looking forward, our big hurdle is to locate funding to buy a transmitter and related equipment and get our station on the air. Our “Get On The Air” project goal is $12,000. (Other LPFM stations starting from ground zero will have a budget roughly twice that. Having a radio tower and some studio/operating space, we are halfway there!)

From September through November we have applied for grants with over a dozen private and corporate foundations. Most of them have yet to reply, a couple have declined outright and one replied that they would consider our case in an upcoming board meeting. Whew!

Oh! I should also mention that we have signed up for Amazon Smile, a version of amazon.com shopping site which can be used to donate 0.5% of your purchases to charity. If you buy a $100.00 item on smile.amazon.com, 50 cents will go to charity. That’s not a whole lot, but every little bit counts. Please make Classic Book Radio your Amazon Smile charity!

For those of you thinking so far ahead that you are considering your end-of-year tax picture, contributions to Classic Book Radio are completely tax deductible.

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Chris Howard