What Is Underwriting?
Underwriting is a means for individuals, businesses, and organizations to publicize the financial support they provide to a nonprofit organization while informing the community about what they have to offer.
For $95.10, KFOK Community Radio will acknowledge you, your business, or your organization on the air twice an hour at least twice a week for three months. That comes out to more than 50 on-air references. (We’ll also feature you on our home page for a week at a time in rotation with other underwriters, as well as list you in our underwriters’ directory.)
Are You Selling Me an Advertisement?
As a nonprofit operation, we are not allowed to sell advertising, but we can announce neutral information such as a company or organization’s name, goods and/or services offered, location, business hours, and contact information (or any combination applicable to a specific underwriter).
How Does This Benefit Me?
For about $30 a month, we help you reach out to our audience, which hears not only about what you offer but also that you support local community radio, a vital practical and cultural resource for the Georgetown Divide. An association with KFOK Community Radio strengthens public perception of your commitment to the community.
Why Does KFOK Offer Underwriting Acknowledgments?
KFOK is a nonprofit organization that pays for rent, utilities, maintenance and repairs, and supplies from funding provided by donors like you. The FCC requires us to announce the entities from which we receive financial support—but we would do so anyway, because we want the community to know about the individuals, businesses, and organizations that help us stay on the air.
Sounds Good—How Do I Sign Up?
Download the KFOK Underwriting Agreement
Read this information sheet and send us an email if you require any clarification or additional information. Then download and complete the underwriting agreement, enclose it with your check for $95.10 in an envelope, and mail it to:
Underwriting
KFOK Community Radio
PO Box 4238
Georgetown, CA 95634
Please allow 1–4 weeks for KFOK to process your underwriting agreement and put your acknowledgment on the air. (Underwriting acknowledgments are updated monthly.)
After a couple of months, we will send you a renewal reminder so you can continue your support. Thank you.
I attempted to print the Underwriter Cover sheet, but was asked to log in to Facebook via Scribd.
Very confusing. I guess I’ll go to the station to get a copy.
You have to click on the words “KFOK Underwriting Agreement” within the header:
“Sounds Good—How Do I Sign Up?
Download the KFOK Underwriting Agreement.”
The words are not underlined like a normal link so they’re easy to miss.
Thanks for pointing this out! We are in the process of going through the site and fixing issues such as these.
Thank you for your support of KFOK!
BTW, very nice/appropriate design theme for your web site
I hope more people will see the value in becoming a supporter, whether or not they have a business, Community Radio is one of the last outposts for original/non commercial local programming. You are an asset.
Thanks so much for your kind words! It’s the generosity of supporters like El Dorado Satellite that helps keep us on the air!
Visit: El Dorado Satellite