Donate

CJSR is listener-supported, volunteer-powered radio in Edmonton. We couldn’t exist without either.

Running a radio station, even one staffed predominantly by volunteers, costs money.

Like any other station, we have maintenance costs, rent, office supplies, licensing, insurance and other things to pay for. CJSR also spends a fair amount of its budget helping to raise more money—things like the swag we give out to donators at Fundrive aren’t free, and neither is the infrastructure we’ve had to build to accept donations.

Still, we run CJSR on a shoestring budget, and we do it with our principles intact: CJSR might be swimming in money if we took corporate ads, for instance, but we don’t because we believe that being the voice of the under-represented in this city means doing it with every second of airtime, and corporate advertising doesn’t really fit into that.

We do receive some grants, we do a casino, and a large portion of our yearly budget comes from a levy on University of Alberta students. In order to make up the difference, we ask our listeners to support us by putting their money where their ears are, and donating to CJSR.