How You Can Support KVNF • Volunteer your time and lend KVNF a hand: answer phones, help with mailings, join our events team or become a DJ • Join the Turn It Up Club (a group of donors who support an annual fund, independent of pledge drives, with gifts of $250 or more) • If you own a business, become a KVNF Underwriter or Business Member • Volunteer your time: answer phones during pledge drive, help with mailings, or become a DJ • Establish a legacy gift to KVNF in your will • Donate your unwanted vehicle to KVNF through our Vehicle Donation Program • Attend the annual meeting in October 2 0 1 3 ANNUAL REPORT It is KVNFs mission to participate in and refl ect the diversity of its community by presenting a program service that addresses the community’s education, information, cultural, and Like KVNF on Facebook entertainment needs. Follow KVNF on Twitter 90.9 FM Paonia/North Fork Valley KVNF Community Radio 89.1 FM Montrose/Delta/Olathe/Norwood PO Box 1350 • 233 Grand Ave. • Paonia, CO 81428 98.3 FM Crawford • 88.9 FM Ridgway (970) 527-4866 (offi ce) • (970) 527-4868 (air studio) 90.1 FM Ouray • 88.7 FM Lake City 866-KVNF-NOW • www.kvnf.org 99.1 FM Grand Valley

report 1 1/22/14, 1:14 PM From the Music Shelf Community Engagement KVNF by the numbers Rare were the times in the past year when North Fork Valley Public Radio, Inc., Thanks to music director Candy Pennetta’s Fiscal year ending September 30, 2013 Income long-standing relationships with KVNF events manager Amber McDaniel INCOME CPB $108,002 distributors, record labels and artists, our wasn’t planning and preparing for an exciting CPB $108,002 Fundraising $26,561 music cupboard is never bare. Candy new concert, party or fundraiser to bring Fundraising Events $26,561 Pledge Drives $106,376 added 1,062 new albums to KVNF’s KVNF staff, DJs and listeners together. We Pledge Drives $106,376 Underwriting $54,262 permanent library this year. Our collection held a birthday party for the station and tiki Underwriting $54,262 Donations $43,839 is now 35,000 albums strong! In addition pig roast, in our final push to sell raffle tickets Donations $43,839 Other $17,391 for a luxurious trip to Fiji. We also increased to our traditional music library, we’re also Other $17,391 our presence at festivals, adding Ouray to the beginning a new project to digitize— Paonia and Ridgway summer concert lineup Total Income $356,431 starting with the new music rolling into the as well as Cherry Days and the BMW Rally. EXPENSES station every day. Expenses Amber and general manager Rick Watts Program $292,141 debuted a new and improved holiday Administrative $64,341 Program $292,141 In the News auction, complete with an online bidding Fundraising $17,639 Administrative $64,341 KVNFs regional news team, which this year system, with great success. While we Facilities & Equipment $11,199 Fundraising $17,639 included Travis Bubenik, Marty Durlin, confess to hosting some rather bored phone Total Expense $385,320 Facilities & Equipment $11,199 Brian Cambria and Eric Goold, is delivering volunteers, bidders took to the online system more -- and more timely -- headlines, immediately, we cut our post-auction analysis and feature stories to listeners administrative time considerably, and raised KVNF is YOUR community radio station! Every day across our 10,000-square-mile listening a big chunk of change for KVNF -- more than area. Travis spearheaded the expansion $18,000! staff, board members and our 70+ volunteer DJs of our signature regional newscast, giving work to inform, enrich and connect the communities Program director Ali Lightfoot expanded Pass of our region. Involve yourself in the station and let listeners twice the opportunity to keep the Mic, KVNF’s youth reporting project, to up on local issues. In addition to the 8 Lake City, where the kids are putting together us know how we can make KVNF even better. am broadcast, after Morning Edition, you a mining history of Hinsdale County. Pass the can ow tune into the regional newscast Mic continues in the North Fork Valley as KVNF Staff Board of Directors at 5:50 pm, at the tail end of All Things well, where young reporters cover everything Considered. from agriculture to coal to alternative energy Rick Watts Jeff Reynolds Linda Bacigalupi, Hotchkiss — President We also expanded the collaborative to the arts. General Manager Operations Manager John Moore, Crawford — Vice President relationships we’ve built over the past few [email protected] [email protected] iSeeChange, our groundbreaking, crowd- Jill Spears, Paonia — Treasurer years to include farm and food reporting sourced climate reporting project, Catherine Zachman, Paonia — Secretary from Luke Runyon with KUNC and Harvest Ali Lightfoot Candy Pennetta continues, and was recently named one of Wiley Freeman, Montrose Public Media, and “Connect the Drops,” Program Director Music Director the top citizen science projects of 2013 by [email protected] [email protected] Jay Canode, Paonia a series on water issues in the Colorado Scistarter.com, a citizen science blog. Please Michele Follis, Montrose River Basin produced in collaboration visit at TheAlmanac.org. Travis Bubenik Christy Eller Cally Carswell, Paonia with KDNK. We’ve proudly continued to News Director Web Consultant Felix Belmont, Paonia, Director Emeritus air Capitol Coverage from reporter Bente A feature produced by Travis Bubenik, Ali [email protected] [email protected] Birkeland, keeping listeners up to date on Lightfoot, and volunteer Joanna Calabrese the gun control, civil unions and marijuana was a finalist in the 24-hour Radio Race, Amber McDaniel debates, among many others, in the state a national competition hosted by KCRW. Underwriting & Events Manager Thanks for your support legislature. Congrats Travis, Ali and Joanna! [email protected]

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