Lots of new content and a special focus on raising money; yoga in the morning; organized dinner conversations; more time for affinity groups; individual and small group appointments with PTFP, Carol Rhine (membership issues), Kim Klein (problem-solving clinics), and Dale Hobson (your website);  and much, much more.

Wednesday  April 1

• You Can Raise the Money You Need -  with Kim Klein
• Training the Trainers  -  with Marilyn Pittman
• Iron Chef Producing: Taking It Apart and Putting It Back Together Again -  with Dmae Roberts and Julie Sabatier
• Building a Community Radio Station from the Ground Up

You Can Raise the Money You Need…
But, it won’t be easy and it will require some new thinking.  
Kim Klein

The world of fundraising seems to be more complicated than ever.  You read that the future is online, or on-air fundraising drives don’t yield like they used to, or direct mail doesn’t work anymore, or Gen X won’t give to anything they are not involved in, or...   What’s true?  And what will work for a Community Radio Station? 

• what needs to be in place to weather almost all circumstances
• how to set up and maintain a disciplined and systematic fundraising program that is predictable and manageable
• how to ask for money in person (still and always, the best way to raise money)
• how to build a fundraising team of volunteers
• whether to spend time on getting your board to raise money
• the critical importance of building and maintaining relationships with current donors
• finding new donors without spending a fortune

Instructor: Kim Klein is internationally known as a fundraising trainer and consultant. She is the founder of the bimonthly Grassroots Fundraising Journal. She is also the author of Fundraising for Social Change (now in its fifth edition, 2006), Fundraising for the Long Haul , Fundraising in Times of Crisis, Ask and You Shall Receive,  and Raise More Money  which she edited with her partner, Stephanie Roth. She has worked with a number of Community Radio stations over the years, and is familiar with their challenges and opportunities for fundraising. 

Training the Trainers
Marilyn Pittman
This Intensive is supported by a grant from the NEA—so we are able to offer it to you below cost.  Take advantage of this rare opportunity.

This Intensive is for Program Directors, News Directors, Music Directors, or anyone at the station who is, works with, and/or supervises on-air talent—volunteer or paid.  You will learn how to help your hosts develop consistency; establish guidelines for the sound of your station; develop a vocabulary for coaching and critiquing your airstaff; solve communication problems; lead by example if you are on the air too.  You’ll come out of this Intensive with a variety of tips and tools to help you be a better leader, mentor, and broadcaster.  You’ll spend the day with people facing the same obstacles and challenges as you are.  If you took this training at the 2006 Conference in Portland, you can get a ‘tune-up’, check in and report your progress. 

Instructor: Marilyn Pittman has been training and coaching broadcasters for over 20 years. She is an accomplished broadcaster herself. She has been a host and producer of two nationally syndicated radio shows, pioneer in internet radio, commercial radio talk show host, rock jock, engineer, sound designer, commentator, and news anchor on tv and radio. Currently, she hosts and produces Out In The Bay, a weekly interview show on LGBT issues, people, and culture on KALW, San Francisco.

Iron Chef Producing: Taking It Apart and Putting It Back Together Again
Dmae Roberts and Julie Sabatier
This Intensive is supported by a grant from the NEA—so we are able to offer it to you below cost.  Take advantage of this rare opportunity.

How do you work under deadline pressure to write and produce a short feature?  Producers Dmae Roberts and Julie Sabatier act as Iron Chefs to help you produce with the right ingredients and elements.  Through a rigorous deconstruction of the audio feature, the two will guide up to 20 participants in the art of balancing quality with speed and accuracy to create memorable feature stories.  First, the intensive will deconstruct great radio pieces step by step.  Then, participants will “put them back together again” using their own ideas and elements for production.  This training will cover interviewing, recording and writing skills that participants can take to their own stations and put into practice.

Instructors: Dmae Roberts is a two-time Peabody award-winning independent radio producer who has produced more than 400 features and documentaries for national programs. Her Peabody award-winning documentary Mei Mei, a Daughter's Song is a harrowing account of her mother's childhood in Taiwan during WWII.  Her Crossing East, the first Asian American history series on public radio garnered her second Peabody award. Dmae has been a volunteer at KBOO since 1996 with her weekly Stage and Studio show. Julie Sabatier is the creator and host of the radio show/podcast Destination DIY that first began on KBOO radio and has been distributed regionally.  She is also the podcast producer for Bitch Magazine and the associate producer of Oregon Public Broadcasting's daily talk show Think Out Loud. Julie began her radio career at KBOO Community Radio, where she has been an active volunteer and served as interim evening news and public affairs director in 2005.

Building a Community Radio Station from the Ground Up
Congratulations to the many new NCE applicants who have or are just about to receive their Construction Permits from the FCC.  As you begin building, you’re probably feeling overwhelmed and are wondering what you need to know to get started with this process.  We’ve designed this one-day intensive specifically for you. Topics to be covered include: managing the construction process, developing business models and budgets, governance and operations, federal grants, legal issues, programming options, and much, much more. This interactive intensive will give you lots of time to dialogue and discuss the issues with broadcast engineers, attorneys, people from Public Radio Capital, and other seasoned community radio veterans.  Please join us!

The complete workshop descriptions, list of presenters, and schedule are here.

General Interest
• Courageous Conversations about Race
• Nonviolence and Culture Change
• Ethics and the Law
• Community Engagement as a Way of Life
• The Growth of the Community Radio Movement Worldwide: Lessons and Opportunities
• The Evolution of Public Broadcasting to Public Media
 
Board of Directors
• Building and Maintaining a Healthy Board
• The Fundraising Responsibilities of the Board
 
Development/Underwriting/Fundraising
• Effective Pitch Training
• The Art of Pitching: How to Effectively Ask for Money on the Air
• Setting Up a Membership Program, Parts 1 & 2
• Reviewing Your Membership Program
• Telling Your Story: Basic Marketing
• Conducting a Development Audit of Your Station
• The One-Person Development Department
• Basic Business/Financial Planning
• Generating Revenue at Native Stations
 
Management
• After You’ve Gone: Critical Elements of Succession Planning
• Managing Volunteers: Grievance Procedures and Disciplinary Action
• Strategic Planning
• Music Licensing
• Legal Issues in Broadcasting
• The Difference Between Leadership and Management
• How to Play with Others
• Legislative and Regulatory Update
• Building and Maintaining a Healthy Board
• Basic Business/Financial Planning
• The Fundraising Responsibilities of the Board
• Your Radio Station Is a Business
• Generating Revenue at Native Stations
• Purposeful Programming: Cultural and Language Programming at Native Stations
 
Programming
• What Makes a Great Break in a Music Show?
• Interview Techniques
• Programmer Evaluations: It’s the Air Sound!
• Storytelling
• Measuring Rural Audiences—and Understanding the Results
• Growing Audience/Advancing Mission: One Year Later
• Music Licensing
• Legal Issues in Broadcasting
• How Do I Get More Latinos to Listen to My Station?
• Purposeful Programming: Cultural and Language Programming at Native Stations
• “Citizen” Journalism: Volunteer Reporters and Community-Building
• Keeping it Legal: WFMU's Free Music Archive
• Moving Audience, Shaping the Sound of Tomorrow
 
Technology/New Media
• Basic Web Strategies
• Social Networking, Social Media, and Web 2.0 Apps
• Free, or Almost-Free, Stuff for Running Your Station
• Looking Ahead: Radio in 5 Years
• The Next Land Rush: Spectrum
• Keeping it Legal: WFMU's Free Music Archive
• Moving Audience, Shaping the Sound of Tomorrow

Now celebrating its 40th year, KBOO was one of the first Community Radio stations to join NFCB.  KBOO holds these core values: community, progressive perspective, emotional maturity, diversity, leadership, creativity. (You can read more at kboo.fm/node/4138). Much about the station has changed or is changing since NFCB’s last Conference in Portland in 2006, but two things (at least) have not changed: KBOO’s commitment to serving its community and KBOO’s warm and wonderful welcome to Community Radio broadcasters from around the world.

NFCB will present the Bader Award to an individual or organization that has made an extraordinary contribution to Community Radio.  NFCB will present the Volunteer of the Year Award to an individual who has gone above and beyond in providing service to the station.

Meeting for Conference newcomers on Wednesday.  Organized dinner conversations (with online sign-up coming soon). Affinity groups (experienced managers; frustrated underwriting staff, etc.). Solution centers.  Receptions, meals, events.  NFCB Membership meeting on Saturday.

Click here for Registration Fees and Deadlines

In order to receive the Member rate, your dues payments to NFCB must be current.

The Conference Hotel is the Hilton Portland & Executive Tower, 921 Southwest Sixth Avenue, Portland, OR 97204.  The toll free registration number is 1-800-445-8667.  Be sure to say you are with the NFCB Conference when booking.

All rooms (single/double/triple/quad) are $134 plus tax.  The rates are good through March 6th, but we urge you to make your reservations before then.  Once our room block sells out, there is no guarantee that more rooms will be available at the Hilton or that they will be available at the special $134 rate.

Jet Blue Airlines is offering Conference attendees a 5% discount off the lowest available fare if you book online. This discount is good for travel to and from Portland or Seattle—arriving on March 30, 31or April 1 and leaving April 4, 5 or 6.   Flights must be booked by March 31.  You must enter the promo code: nfcbconference2009  

Book your flights at
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