Organizational Commitments to the Campaign to Expand Community Radio

Thank you for helping to expand community radio nationwide! Please check all the items your organization can commit to, get sign off from your organization, and send back to .

Name of Organization:

Date:

LPFM Liaison Name and Contact:

E-Signature of leader in organization:

Check those that apply / Partner Commitment / Prometheus Commitment
ALL Partners
Appoint single point of contact to be campaign liaison / Consistent point of contact, Partners webpage
Make organizational commitments (this document) / Written agreements with partner organizations
Participate in campaign-wide calls / Coordination of calls
Encouraged to support policy work / Coordination of policy needs
Outreach
Conduct outreach within your issue or geographic areas / Outreach materials
Community Radio badge on website and/or communications. / Badge with code to link to info on our site
Host and/or support groups to host monthly in-person events. / -Monthly emails + webinar archive w/ topic to focus on (Opportunity basics, media justice, media production, collaboration/movement-building, fundraising, engineering, legal, app support)
-Sample Agenda
-Sample popular education tools
-Guest speaker in person or via skype, or archived presentations
-Materials - print, archived webinars, videos
Host webinar or conference call for region or sector. / Presenter and cosponsorship as appropriate.
Contribute to social networking spaces and Radio Spark (crowd sourced info site) / -Radio Spark space.
-Essential updates to push to social networking spaces
Create sector specific materials highlighting relevance of radio and this opportunity for your constituencies. / Generic materials to customize:
-Customizable email blast
-Sector-specific 2-pagers (environmental, immigrants rights, economic justice)
-Tri-fold (economic justice and general)
-Community Radio postcard
-Website button
Conference support - Talk about and/or distribute info about LPFM at conferences / Postcards, sign in sheet, talking points, power point
Application preparation (Anchor partners are asked to participate in all of these tasks)
Participate in anchor partner calls (2 hrs a month) to coordinate work, share resources, and support campaign strategy. / Call coordination
Set a target number of station hopefuls you want to support (goal = 300 stations supported through all anchor partners) / Application support group meetings to track progress & overcome barriers.
Distribute basic information for FCC requirements / FCC timeline & announcements, Legal Guide for applicants
Encourage your top tier groups to participate in trainings offered by you or Prometheus and network and collaborate with other groups. / Archived webinars
Create/contribute to social networking spaces for your constituents and to RadioSpark - a crowdsourced site for peer to peer support. / RadioSpark and Social networking infrastructure and oversight.
Help groups move through the checklist to prepare for applying and conduct regular check ins on progress. / -Checklist for station preparation.
-Train the trainer events.
-Webinar archives that partners can play and host live QA
-Prometheus staff member on replayed webinars when possible.
List of legal and engineering supporters.
Review your station’s applications(est. 4 hrs/mo/group - with "all hands on deck" during the one week application window). / Workshop on reviewing applications
Frequency search for your groups / Map of likely LPFM availability.
Webinar on conducting frequency search for you and your stations.
Help ID transmitter locations for your groups / Locating a transmitter webinar and materials.
Conduct site visits when possible with top tier groups.
Station Development/Community Engagement
Produce materials or trainings for groups in your network on non-radio skills which are needed by future stations: Volunteer recruitment, social networking, grassroots fundraising, community engagement, board development, etc. / Archived webinars on these topics
Help groups begin making media now and stream online. / Key to Internet Radio - jump start package to help streaming.
Fundraising
Grassroots fundraising for groups in your network to use in application process and/or to build their station. / Template for appeal
Reach out to existing funders for an additional ask for the opportunity. / Funder brief packet
Submit independent fundraising proposals. / Letter of support
Joint prospecting and proposals to target foundations. / Joint prospecting and proposals to target foundations.
ID regional funders, convene parties, make pitch and application to funders. / MAP of likely LPFM availability and Education about costs.
ID regional funders
ID and convene potential collaborators
Host and/or support groups to host fundraiser events / Guide for throwing fundraiser events
Other Commitments (fill in)