December 31 2012 Happy New Year!
Will you help us meet budget with a $25 donation? We've had a lot of end of year donations, for which we thank one and all, but the deficit remains stubbornly close to causing us to fall over our own fiscal cliff at midnight! We hope you've enjoyed a safe and happy Christmas with family and friends, and as the end of 2012 approaches, and if you've enjoyed our radio history features and information at www.radioheritage.com during the year, ask if you'll consider making a small donation towards meeting our our final operating costs for the year? You'll find www.radioheritage.com full of hundreds of radio features and services you won't find anywhere else, all available free thanks to the generosity of people all over the world who think that we must continue to keep the site free of user pays fees.... will you join us? We have much more new content - for free - planned for 2013 but still have bills to pay even though we have no paid staff, just volunteers - and no government grants or funding from the radio industry. Our shortfall for the last 4 months of 2012 to December 31 is US$4,190 and if 168 more people can donate US$25 each, this will fully clear those bills and let us start 2013 afresh. You can read much more about what we do to keep radio memories safe at www.radioheritage.net/story277.asp and some of our success stories in 2012. You might be surprised at how many different aspects of radio history we cover, and the many radio station guides we now offer for free community use. We've secured 34% of the budget for the last 4 months, and could do with a little help from our friends to cover the rest... and $25 from 168 good people will help us achieve this. Like any household, we have regular outgoings just to stay above water and these come to about US$400 a week, securing our office space, storage, insurance [our premiums have almost doubled this past year], electricity, internet connections, stationery, computer repairs [we had a total melt down of a PC in early December and an unexpected bill!], library additions and all the other little things that add up over the year... We pay our volunteers nothing, despite all the good work they do, and we've asked radio stations to contribute [but they rarely do], and will again be trying to find some commercial sponsors in 2013 to reduce the burden on people like you who give so generously to support this non-profit educational and history resource and make it available for free to the community. Users of our website have increased a lot during the year, with over 20,000 Australians alone now visiting us, along with thousands more from the USA, New Zealand, Canada, the United Kingdom and India, so if just 168 more of you can find US$25 at this time of year, we will all be very grateful. You can use the Paypal donate button on any page at www.radioheritage.com and all donations received before January 31 2013 go into the draw to win over US$240 worth of fabulous books, with existing donors who can help us a little more also qualifying for the draw of a free World Radio TV Handbook 2013 shipped worldwide. Thanks for considering us at this busy time of the year, and for staying with us over the years, we hope you'll join us again in 2013 and enjoy more new features, stories, memories and radio history audio, images and collections and, of course, our very popular free radio station guides. So, again, we have to find US$4190 to clear the final bills for the year, and if you can find US$25 as one of 168 good friends this week, we'll be very grateful, enter you in the draw to win US$240 worth of donated great reading, and do our very best to find some commercial sponsors in 2013 to reduce the need to make these sorts of requests. Of course, all donors are acknowledged on our Roll of Honor and as a registered non-profit, we file annual financial and other reports with our government charities regulator. Full contact details are at the bottom of every page of our website www.radioheritage.com. Again, have a safe, peaceful, healthy & prosperous and Happy New Year and we look forward to hearing more from you in the days to come. Warm wishes Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.com PS..another way to help keep our content free is do shop at Amazon through any of our bookstores at www.radioheritage.com. You're not restricted just to the books we choose. This is a great time of year for gift certificates and hundreds of thousands of other precious gifts for yourself, family and friends from across the entire Amazon range. You may qualify for free shipping and discounts at this time of the year also! Treat yourself today. _ Hard-Core-DX mailing list Hard-Core-DX@hard-core-dx.com http://montreal.kotalampi.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/dsl.html