Come experience the Fund Drive from the inside out - Catch a glimpse of your favorite on-air personalities - Meet other passionate KPFA listeners!
Much of the work of keeping KPFA on the air is done by volunteers. Not least of this is the work of the illustrious Phone Room Volunteer. Phone room volunteers are strong and intrepid, diligent and precise, have legible hand-writing and are able to leap over a variety of accents and lots of background noise in a single bound! You are certainly qualified to become one of the elite Phone Room Volunteers.
We need you to step up to the challenge during our upcoming Summer Mini-Fund Drive. If we have a shortage of folks manning the phones from 6:30 am until nearly midnight, we stand to lose the contribution money that keeps us moving forward. If you want to be extra saintly, we are often in need of phone volunteers on weekends and early mornings.
Fund Drive Volunteer Benefits
- Free Food & Beverages!
- Meet KPFA On Air Hosts
- KPFA membership for 3 hours of volunteer work
- Discounts on some KPFA Pledge Gifts
- Hang out with Fellow Listeners
Volunteering is not unappreciated work. You will be rewarded most handsomely with great coffee or tea, bagels and dinners (thanks to
local food purveyors that donate goods to us), the opportunity to get discounts on those great KPFA premiums that we make here (like T-shirts and DVDs of local events), and the opportunity to hang out with other like minded souls.
Also, 3 hours of volunteering makes you a member of KPFA and gains you voting rights in the next Local Station Board election. Make sure that when you volunteer to sign up in the phone room so that we will have a record of your participation and will be registered to vote for this Fall's board election.
Just stop by the station any time, any day, from July 31st until August 8th from 6:30 AM (during Democracy Now!) till 11:00PM (for your favorite evening music programs). The station is at 1929 Martin Luther King Jr. Way near the corner of University Avenue in Berkeley. We encourage you to use BART or AC Transit, as the parking can be tight (but not impossible) during the daytime.
Remember that if you are a member of a community group, labor union, or non-profit your organization will be thanked on the air every day you come in as a group to answer phones. To make arrangements please email: eden@kpfa.org or call 510 848 6767 x 205 and let us know when you will be in and how many of you there will be.
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Want to see more? Visit Khalil Bendib's website. Khalil can be heard on KPFA's Voices of the Middle East and North Africa, Wednesdays at 7:00pm. Listen to past shows or subscribe to the podcast.
We are still looking for food to feed the volunteers. If you have a restaurant, bakery, catering business, cafe, big garden, or the itch to make a huge batch of cookies, contact Maria at 510 848 6767 x 258 or email at maria@kpfa.org.
Can you imagine how tense our phone volunteers, and hard-working hosts such as Jim Bennett, Brian Edwards-Tiekert, or Luis Medina get during long hours on-air during the fund drive? If you are a massage therapist, you would be doing the station an invaluable service to help sooth and relax the folks who work the hardest during the drive. We have a relatively quiet space to set up your table or massage chair!
Please email: eden@kpfa.org or call 510 848 6767 x 205 if you can help out.
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