What is FunDrive?
CJSR’s most important fundraising event!
Running October 31 – November 8, 2025
We ask our listeners to support independent radio in Edmonton by making donations to the station
How to donate?
You have 3 ways to contribute to the FunDrive:
💻 ONLINE: cjsr.com/donate
📱 TEXT: DONATE to 780.492.CJSR (2577)
☎️ CALL: 780.492.CJSR x 1
Daily giveaways
Each day of the 9 day FunDrive, we have a number of prize packages for the donors.
October 31
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Prize 1: $50 Dadeo gift card
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Prize 2: 4-pack of Alley Kat beer and 1 brewery tour
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Prize 3: 1 gift set from Prairie Chick Prints
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Prize 4: $60 LUX MRKT gift card
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Prize 5: $25 Evolution Wonderlounge gift card
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Everyone who donates on a specific day is eligible for the draws that day.
FunDrive Events
> Metro Music Movie | The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Tuesday, October 28
6:45pm
Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre
> Wrap Party
PRODUCED BY HOT PLAINS AND DOUBLE LUNCH PRODUCTIONS
The 2025 CJSR FunDrive is closing out with a stacked line-up of back-to-back bands at Starlite Room and Temple.
Saturday, November 8
doors at 7pm
All ages and licenced.
2025 FunDrive Artist
Each year, we commission a local visual artist to interpret CJSR.
For 2025, it’s local musician and multidisciplinary artist, Nickelas Johnson aka Smokey
[ LEARN MORE ABOUT THE ART + ARTIST ]
FunDrive Art Archive
2023: Multiverse of Sound by Alex Sychuk
2022: A literal FunDrive by Coda Girvan
2021: Audio Obscura by Parker Thiessen
2020: Audio Passport by Maaike Lynn
2019: Homegrown Radio by Borys Tarasenko
2018: Anatomy of Radio by Raymond Biesinger
Swag
The art is featured on FunDrive gear
Depending on the amount donated, a donor receives complimentary swag. While swag levels vary every year, usual items include:
- the Friends of CJSR Card
- CJSR decal
- FunDrive T-shirt etc.
Why do we have FunDrive?
Listeners who pledge their support for the station are taking an active role in keeping CJSR on the air. CJSR 88.5FM is a non-profit campus-community radio station run by a small handful of staff and over 200 unpaid volunteers. All money raised goes not only towards keeping our station running, but also towards improving it. Monies collected during FunDrive account for a large portion of CJSR’s annual operating budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can you pledge your support? Choose your own adventure:
- Click here to donate online!
Need more incentive to give? One word: swag.
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Each year we have some super cool, limited-edition swag for FunDrive donors!
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If you donate during FunDrive, you will also be entered to win daily giveaways! Check out our social media for more information!
Tax Receipt?
- If you donate $50 or more, you are eligible for a tax receipt (cuz did you know that CJSR is a registered charity?!
What is the breakdown of how donations funds are spent?
Check out our Income and Expense Pie Charts on the Donate Page (Make sure to hover your mouse over for individual values)
- Altogether, CJSR’s money goes to the most staid, normal operating expenses you can think of. But they’re costs we have to pay and that’s why we reach out and ask our listeners for their support: offering a voice to communities that aren’t represented by the mainstream media in Edmonton is important to us and, we hope, important to our listeners. We manage to do it for next to nothing, which is why every bit helps: your donation, whatever the size, goes a long way toward keeping an alternative perspective on Edmonton’s airwaves.
Who can I contact about donations?
- donate@cjsr.com or admin@cjsr.com
Why is it called FunDrive?
- Because it’s really fun!