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If
300 individuals contributing $100, our minimum operational needs are
met. 1,500 individuals donating,
services would expand.
If
1,000 businesses contributing $1,500 a year Foundation Radio will
have enough to do a full operation in Jackson, Michigan.
Our
goal is to avoid asking for donations on the air!
Please
send your contribution by check or money order. The Foundation
values every dollar given. Electronic forms of transactions can cost
up to 10%.
Example,
a $100 donation would be $90 after transaction fees are paid. A
$1,500 donation would be $1,350. Please help us use your donation wisely. |
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Community
Representative
A Community Representative
communicates with businesses using any methods that are successful.
You will be creating a network of businesses that are supporting
Foundation Radio and the main Foundation, the Society for Accurate
Information and Distribution, a 501(c)3 foundation. Your efforts will
be local. For the businesses support they will receive recognition on
Foundation Radio and on the Foundation's 10 websites. Please e-mail
contact information and resume. The goal is to succeed, degrees are
not needed. Success is the requirement. You will be responsible for
meeting with supporters and to over-see your contributors.
E-Mail.
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Contributor
Coordinator
A Contributor Coordinator will be
responsible for encouraging individuals and families to support the
Foundation and Foundation Radio with contributions. You will be
overseeing the process and managing these efforts. Please e-mail
contact information and resume. The goal is to succeed, degrees are
not needed.
E-Mail.
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Events
Coordinator
An Events Coordinator will bring
together underwriting sponsors for special events. These are the
billboard sponsors found at many events. Additional duties as needed
to make the event successful will be required. You will also be
responsible for creating and overseeing the event. Please e-mail
contact information and resume. The goal is to succeed, degrees are
not needed.
E-Mail.
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Grant Writer
The Grant Writer will be able to
demonstrate the ability to successfully write grants. Some grants
will be low level. Large grant proposal will also be part of the
responsibilities. Grants will be for going green, facility up-grade,
adding new stations, and a program the Foundation that is assisting
individuals with special needs to be integrated into the Foundation's efforts.
E-Mail.
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National
Business Representative
The National Business
Representative will be talking with the big boys (ladies, too.) This
will be an effort to incorporate the national corporations in
participating with the Foundation. Experience with upper management
and CEOs of corporations will be needed. The goal is to succeed,
degrees are not needed.
E-Mail.
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Organization
Representative
The Organization Representative
will be coordinating with schools, churches, civic groups to
participate as a fund-raiser for them. Duties will be to over-see and
manage operations. Public speaking and being comfortable with the
public will be a plus. The goal is to succeed, degrees are not needed.
E-Mail.
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Volunteer
- Events Reporter
Events Report will collect and
organizing community events to post on the Foundation's websites.
Recording an events newscast will also be required for Foundation
Radio. Website experience will be needed and some ability to speak
publicly. If the Events Reporter found underwriting, a portion will
be a commission for servicing the underwriter.
E-Mail.
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Volunteer
- Public Relations
This is a starting position with
the Foundation. Your efforts will be to get the good word out about
the efforts of the Foundation. You will help with all of the public
relations campaigns. If you have the opportunity to bring in an
underwriter or supporter for the Foundation, a commission will be
given for managing the supporter. The goal is to succeed, degrees are
not needed.
E-Mail.
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Volunteer
- Website Operator
The Website Operator will be
responsible to write the code for bringing in RSS feeds and other
functions which will enhance the Foundation's websites. The ability
to do a webpage layout with html, xml, and other basic codes which
keep the websites accessible to a larger audience is required.
Instead of the the cute gimmicks often used which causes problems for
visitors, the basic techniques for website layout will be used. If
you have the opportunity to bring in an underwriter or supporter for
the Foundation, a commission will be given for managing the
supporter. The goal is to succeed, degrees are not needed.
E-Mail.
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Equipment
Upgrades
Foundation Radio started out doing several
websites and an audio stream on the Internet. It is time to up-grade
this equipment as well as add additional equipment to the system.
$30,000
New automation system. These are
computers which will download feeds, sequence the programming and
also store the programming. The system that Foundation Radio is
considering will have the ability to grab and download Internet
feeds. This will allow for recorded church services and similar
programming to be broadcasted. In addition, remotes from different
locations can be scheduled into the programming. This system will
also include a new audio production computer and the software needed
to operate.
$50,000
Currently Foundation Radio is
using the Internet to get the programming to the transmitter sites. A
microwave STL (Studio to Transmitter Link) will allow the signal to
reach the transmitters by a medium that is not controlled by others.
It will also allow to have separate programming on the different stations.
$250,000 each station
Foundation Radio has the
opportunity to upgrade signals.
WJKQ 88.5 Jackson, Michigan will
have increased power and antenna height. The location being
considered for the Jackson station will have the ability to include studios.
WAQQ 88.3 Onsted, Michigan will
have the ability to have increased power and antenna height.
Currently the signal is very, very weak.
Additional Stations
Homer, Hastings, and Lowell,
Michigan have been granted licenses or
construction permits for radio stations by the Foundation.
Jackson, Michigan. Foundation
Radio holds the license for an additional radio station in Jackson,
beside WJKQ. The tentative plans for all these stations are to
continue community programming and not compete with the commercial
stations. They do a good job.
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Going Green
$1,000,000
Foundation Radio wishes to take
all the stations green. This means that the transmitters would not be
on the electrical grid. Instead the transmitter sites would be paid
to contribute surplus energy to the electrical grid. A combination of
solar panels and wind energy will be used to power the transmitters.
The estimated price will make it possible to make about 11/2 of the
stations green.
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New
Broadcasting Services
$1,000,000 each television station
Foundation Radio has been asked to
take over two community television stations. Digital Television has
the opportunity to have three sub-channels along with the main
broadcasting channel. The concept will be to use the sub-channels to
create PEG channels (Public, Education, and Government) that we are
all familiar with on cable television. The problem with cable is that
if you are not subscribed to cable, these service are not available.
No decision has been made, but a commitment of $1,000,000 for each
station will move this project forward.
$500,000
Foundation Radio has a
construction permit for a 100,000 watt station in the Upper
Peninsula. This station would cover about 3/4 of the Upper Peninsula.
$500,000
There is a new camera system called Red
One. Think of
the cameras television stations use for news coverage but with the
resolution to make movies for theaters. With all the accessories and
doo-dads each camera is about $50,000 complete. This will allow the
Foundation to make quality video for the Internet, television, and
movie theaters. It will also have the ability to tie the cameras
together for studio work. Think of the studio part of television
news. The resolution makes high definition television a step down
from this system. The Foundation
will have the ability to create public service announcements for
worthwhile organizations, or to make video specials, or if needed
produce a full blown movie that could be promoting a specific
apolitical cause such as child safety.
$1,000,000
Foundation Radio has the ability
to build and operate a multi-track recording studio which can produce
albums and other audio materials. By having such a studio, the
Foundation has the ability to produce any type of audio programming,
especially for service organizations. Currently Foundation Radio, the
broadcasting arm of the Foundation has created two campaigns. One is
for the VFW National Home for Children and the other is for Aware,
Inc. A service organization aiding those who have been victims of
sexual assault and domestic violence. With a multi-track recording
studio, the ability to offer reduced or free campaigns for similar
groups will be possible.
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Operational
Underwriting
$50,000,000
The Foundation is attempting to create an operational trust fund that
will take care of the day-to-day expenses of operating the radio
stations and websites. The so-called monthlies would be paid out of
the dividends from this trust fund. Thereby making the other
contributions either for upgrades, or for special projects, or grow
the trust. Part of these dividends would be used within the community
for aiding in worthwhile projects. Yes, we ask for donations, yet
forwarding a part of the Foundation's efforts will help to strengthen
our community even more.
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Outreach
Underwriting
$50,000,000 This ties in
with Operational Underwriting and creating a trust fund. Surplus
dividends based upon a formula will be returned to the community in
cash contributions to worthwhile efforts which strengthen the community.
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Programming
$20,000
Foundation Radio as of this
writing has about 7,000 songs and about the same amount of Old Time
Radio dramas in the library. Not all recordings are of the quality
desired. As better quality recordings are obtained the music is
updated with the better recording. This is done almost weekly. There
are libraries of music available for purchase that would not only
upgrade some of the music but add new selections for playing.
Depending upon the library, an average price is about $1,000 for
songs of a specific format. Foundation Radio has music from many formats.
$30,000
Foundation Radio has permission to
bring in hourly news from VOA (Voice of America.) This is the
American version of the BBC. By law the news presented must be
unbiased or in theory those guilty of distortions could go to jail.
The equipment to make this possible will also allow Foundation Radio
to bring in Public Affairs programs from VOA and other sources.
$200,000
School Sports. It is not
cheap to provide good coverage of school sports. Yes, radio stations
have been doing so on a shoe string for years. Few listen to these
broadcasts because of the poor quality of announcers, feeds, and
operations. Foundation Radio wishes to do this as it should be done.
At first, varsity sports will be the main focus, and as more support
comes in additional sports as well as academic competitions can be
added. It isn't all about sports where the kids should be recognized.
$50,000
Symphonies, Founder's Day,
community fairs, and other programming can be very expensive to
provide. Either the programming is broadcast live or is recorded for
later play back.
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Remote
Broadcasts Underwriting
$100,000
Back in the 60s radio stations
used to use remote trailers. Often these trailers are placed a day or
two in advance to help promote the event scheduled. Foundation Radio
should have three of these towed trailers and a remote production
vehicle. Think of a bus modified to include a recording studio and
production facility.
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Studio
and Transmitter Sites
$5000,000
Studio and transmitter sites need
up-grading and require additional features. This does not include
greening the sites. For example standby transmitters are excellent to
have so that maintenance can be carried out on one transmitter while
the other is on the air. Studios should include the ability to take
any format of audio, including cylinder records and transferring to
digital. Several types of tape decks are needed to handle the past
formats for recording.
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Website
Underwriting
$100,000 per website The
Foundation has 10 websites. Each site needs to be made more user
friendly and to add materials and research to other sites. For
example on the President
site some of the President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Fireside Chats
are available for downloading. It will take financial effort to
finish this project. On the Constitution
site, some of the world constitutions are not in English. Again,
financial effort is needed to make this possible.
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