www.radioheritage.net March 17 2014 An Important Message ____________________ Hello As you know, protection of radio memories and memorabilia is the reason why we exist. For the last few years, we've had to share the cost of running the project with a growing number of people around the world, and we're very grateful to those who share our passion and have [often] regularly made donations towards keeping us afloat financially. Compared to 2013, already in 2014 we've seen increases in people using the website: New people +8% Brazilians +103% Indonesians +60% Finns +56% Americans +44% Russians + 38% It's really become much more of a global project. This is good because more people from more places and cultures are sharing and learning about radio heritage and history. Unfortunately, many of the people who come to visit us can't afford to donate anything towards our running costs, and businesses still keep telling us our visitor numbers are too small to be of any interest to them so they don't want to advertise or make donations. So here we are, two weeks away from ending our financial year on March 31, and only able to find 73% of the money needed just to pay our operating costs, and leaving nothing for new equipment, advertising, promotions, and improving our work. We understand that radio history isn't a sexy issue, that it's not something to think about every day, but we have to be here everyday keeping the project going, keeping faith with people who make donations, and making sure that more radio history and memories aren't lost, thrown away or destroyed. Seriously, if you can make a donation towards our operational costs today, we and the 99% of the thousands who use the website every week in the expectation it'll always be free and available will thank you. Our target is $7,900 left to pay all our bills for the year ended March 31. That's 37% of the total cost left to go. We can continue doing our work as volunteers with greater confidence if we know the bills are paid. And we have some wonderful new features already part completed that we'd like to get finished and share with you in the coming weeks. We apologize for having to ask for you help in this way, but these next few days are critical to the project. Thank you in advance for helping as you can. Please visit www.radioheritage.net to donate using the secure Paypal button with your credit card or if you live in New Zealand, a tax deductible donation of $5 or more can be made to our BNZ account 02-0568-0025796-000 and you can then claim a 33% refund after April 1 2014. Thanks so much for keeping the radio memories safe. Radio Heritage Foundation www.radioheritage.net Global Radio Memories project Funded only by supporters like you. Email DX to be removed from this mailing list and allow 15 working days for a volunteer to manually find and remove your email address. _ 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