Get ready for another exciting week of CHLY 101.7fm asking for your financial help! You may be asking yourself why does CHLY keep asking for money??? Don’t they run on volunteers? Doesn’t Vancouver Island University give them money? Don’t they get money from advertising? Well here’s some answers to those questions.
Isn’t CHLY a hundred percent volunteer driven?
CHLY does operate mostly on volunteerism. We have over 100 active volunteers donating thousands of volunteer hours per year. However, some staff is needed to help in some key areas. The two main areas being training and coordination of volunteers. Staff also maintains office hours to keep the station accessible to the public. Currently CHLY operates with one full time staff person. This year the Radio Malaspina Society would like to add another part time staff person. It is also t he goal of the Radio Malaspina Society to give its staff members a livable wage.
Does CHLY receive funding from Vancouver Island University?
No. CHLY receives funding from the student’s of Vancouver Island University. Each student gives $1.07 per full time student per semester to the Radio Malaspina Society as part of its student fees. This funding accounts for about $20, 000 a year which represents about 33% of our yearly operating budget.
Does CHLY make money from advertising?
Yes. However not a lot. CHLY does sell advertising to locally owned business. Last year CHLY sold $7,000 in advertising. This accounts for about 10% of our yearly operating budget.
So all together, CHLY receives about 45% of its funding from Students of VIU and advertising. So where does the rest come from? Well you probably guessed it: Donations!! To maintain the current operating budget CHLY must raise $40,000 a year in donations and memberships. The main way we do this is through our semiannual On – Air fund drives.
So what does CHLY spend its money on? (all numbers rounded)
1 full time employee: $20,000
Transmission costs: $11,000
Rental of studio and office space: $5,000
Contract work (labor brought in for special projects): $5,000
Computers (upgrades and replacements): $4,000
Office (postage, supplies): $3,000
Insurance: $2,000
Audit of financial statements: $2,000
Telephone and Internet: $2000
Printing: $1500
Over and above current operational costs, what else would CHLY like to invest in?
CHLY would like to invest more into our staff. The current tasks are beyond the reach of one staff member. We would like to add another staff member as well as invest more into contract labor to assist in the current operation as well as the new projects. Some of our initiatives are to run a news department and to remote broadcast. This would add approximately 21,000 to the yearly budget.
CHLY would like to invest into a new transmitter. This would add approximately $5,000 to the yearly budget.
CHLY would like to invest into a multi on air phone line. Currently we can only allow one online caller. This would add about $500 to the yearly operating budget.
CHLY would like to increase our bandwidth for online listeners. Currently we can only have 26 online listeners. This would add about $1000 to our yearly operating budget.
You want to help out?
phone 250 740 1017
or
click the donate button on
www.chly.ca
or
send a cheque to #2 34 Victoria Cres, Nanaimo, BC. V9R 5B8
or
come on down to the station in person. we're located in downtown nanaimo below the queens hotel
copy this link into your browser to join the facebook event
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=208904462471826
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