[Rfu-station] General Meeting and Fundraising Graphic Contest Reminder

[Mike Lehman]

The next RFU general meeting will be Sept. 18 at 8pm in the Family Room, 
downstairs at the IMC. All programming groups are reminded that 
attending at least 50% of all meetings is an obligation to keep your 
show on the air.

The Raise the Tower fundraising campaign graphic logo contest ends on 
Tuesday. It looks like we have at least three entries, but you have 
until the meeting Tuesday to develop and turn in a proposed logo if you 
want to enter. The logo must be for one-color printing and have a tower 
theme. The winner will get a free t-shirt and perhaps some other loot, 
as well as the satisfaction of seeing it everywhere on RFU's fundraising 
campaign literature.

Even more reason to attend the meeting Tuesday is that people are 
working on several projects involving fundraising and membership to get 
new equipment for the station to produce a better signal, including a 
new tower, and update the studio equipment and the infrastructure needed 
for streaming. We have a goal of $20,000 by December 1. While this may 
seem like a lot of money, we have about 40 shows on the air now. This 
means that if each shows helps with this campaign -- which all 
programming groups should do! -- then each show only needs to raise 
about $500. Your ideas and participation in fundraising are urgently 
needed in order to achieve our $20,000 goal

Shows can help raise these funds by remembering to read a fundraising 
PSA every time you're on the air. We also have a variety of activities 
like a booth starting at the Farmers Market on Saturdays in Urbana and 
trivia nights at local establishments to raise funds and make the 
community more aware of our campaign. If we all work together on this, 
we can easily raise the $20,000.

A proposal to begin collecting dues once a year, instead of on a 
rotating basis, will be brought back for a second look, hopefully with 
the concerns of a few which blocked it at the last meeting addressed. 
This is an essential proposal so that the station has the basic income 
needed to operate in the new year.
Mike Lehman