KWMR 2017 ANNUAL REPORT budget. Three-quarters of our $400,000 annual budget comes from individuals, organizations, and businesses right here in our community. One quarter of KWMR’s funding comes from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The overall budget supports seven staff members: six part-time and one full-time. These employees, in turn, support the work of the over-90 volunteer programmers. The contribution of our volunteers’ on-air time is worth roughly $97,000: equivalent to one quarter of the station’s overall budget. KWMR is a vital slice of our community. The relationship with residents, business owners, first responders, fellow non-profits, schools, and County departments is paramount in accomplishing our goal of providing locally relevant information and entertainment to listeners. KWMR stands ready to serve in times of emergency. The station provides training to anyone interested in gaining experience in broadcasting skills and radio production. We are inclusive, and do not discriminate. Please join me in being proud of what this community KWMR is still here. This radio station began as an idea, and has crafted and nurtured. It’s not every outlying rural area that through hard work, team work, planning, and persistence has can boast a full-power FM radio station. Thank you, West Marin! become a vital community resource. On May 2, 2018 KWMR turned 19 years old. Next year will be 20! We must be doing Amanda Eichstaedt Station Manager/Executive Director something right! KWMR, West Marin Community Radio One of the things we are most proud of at KWMR is being, and remaining, a neutral platform for all voices. We discuss this concept regularly and share those thoughts with our community of over 90 volunteer programmers. There is no shortage of issues on which one can choose a side or hold a strong opinion. KWMR’s airwaves are open to one and all. As an independent media entity serving a rural area, it is often astounding to our radio peers that listeners in our area can pick up so many other public radio stations. We are a rural radio station on the edge of a huge metropolitan area. This begs the question, why does KWMR exist? The answer involves not only a description of the physical environment and the many communities in topographically-challenged terrain, but our proximity to the San Andreas Fault and miles of coastline in wilderness areas that are also vulnerable to wildland fires. Road access, in and out, is two-lane — sometimes single lane — and easily cut off by vehicle crashes, fallen trees, and flooding. KWMR is the only source for this information for residents and for the many visitors to West Marin. KWMR is listener-supported, non-affiliated, watershed radio. We do our own thing and strive to do it well on a limited Valley kid and guitarist Oliver John prepraring to play; with his mother Marlene, and Program Director Lyons Filmer. OUR UNDERWRITERS 10x10 Michael Parmeley 2-Mile Surf Shop Miyoko’s Creamery Absentee Winery Nick’s Cove Amanda Ross Skincare Salon Osmosis Day Spa Anthony Moore Design and Build Pacific Slope Tree Cooperative Art Rogers Photography Pacific Sun Bay Area Air District Palace Market Bear Valley Cottage Point Reyes Books Black Mountain Cycles Point Reyes Building Supply Center Bolinas Community Center Point Reyes Disaster Council Bolinas Community Land Trust Point Reyes Farmers Market Bolinas Fire Protection District Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Bolinas Hearsay News Point Reyes Hostel Bovine Bakery Point Reyes Light Bryan Barientos Dentistry Point Reyes National Seashore Association California Film Institute Point Reyes Vacation Rentals City Sewer Pumping Project Avary Community Land Trust Association of Rancho Nicasio Hand-drawn KWMR bandana by Jaime Crespo West Marin Redwood Community Health Coalition Coastal Health Alliance Rotary Club of West Marin The KWMR Board thanks our excellent College of Marin Sage Renewables programmers, dedicated volunteers, County of Marin’s Alert Marin San Geronimo Valley Community Center hardworking, engaged and fabulously Cover Girls Upholstery Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival talented staff, and generous supporters for Dance Palace Shelter Publications another year of community, homegrown Dillon Beach Emergency Response Team Sir and Star radio. As Amanda outlines, KWMR relies Dominican University’s OLLI Program SMART primarily on recurring Corporation for Doobie Decibel System Smiley’s Saloon & Hotel Public Broadcasting grants, biennial on- Eleven Wine Bar Bistro Spirit Matters air pledge drives, and other fundraising Fibershed Station House Café events, which together do not always Flower Power Susan Hayes Handwovens provide a sufficiently constant revenue Gallery Route One Sustainable Sports Foundation stream. The board asks you to consider Geography of Hope Table Top Farm Good Earth Natural Foods Thackrey Fine Wine making a donation to the KWMR Reserve Hog Island Oyster Company To Celebrate Life Fund to provide a solid foundation and Home Upgrade California Toby’s Feed Barn stability for our future. Keeping cash in Horizon Cable Tomales Bay Foods reserve for a “rainy day” may seem like a Ink Paper Plate Tomales Bay Resort and Marina and luxury, but maintaining a nest egg can Inverness Park Market Fog’s Kitchen and Lounge ensure KWMR’s long-term financial health. Inverness Volunteer Fire Department Tomales Town Hall This is basic good financial business John Roche Services West Marin Community Services practice, and fundamental to KWMR’s five- Ken and Sam Levin Window Cleaning West Marin Compost year strategic planning and development Lucid Art Foundation West Marin Drafting & Design plan. Reserve Fund money, if used, will be Marin Agricultural Land Trust West Marin Fitness repaid to the Fund in a timely manner. To Marin Clean Energy West Marin Food & Farm Tours date we have raised $31,000; the KWMR Marin County Fair West Marin Pharmacy board‘s goal is to increase our Reserve Marin Symphony West Marin Review Fund to $100,000. Marin Transit West Marin Senior Services Maritime Radio Historical Society Whistlestop McNear’s Mystic Theatre Willow Creek Wealth Management Jennifer McFarland KWMR Board President McPhail Fuel Company Zenith Instant Printing Mendocino Music Fest KWMR 2017 FINANCIAL SUMMARY What does KWMR do with your contributions? KWMR exists as a community resource. The station works closely with our Disaster Council and first responder We pay the rent, utilities, insurance, keep the equipment partners to ensure that we can get verified information out working by repairing or replacing it, pay our employees, and to the listeners during times of need. make sure that the airwaves are open to all perspectives. Our financial footprint has been steady over the past KWMR is grateful for the generous support from so many several years, and we did end this past year with a surplus. people in the community. INCOME ExpenseS Program Services $236,459 Personnel $257,971 Management and General $126,707 Rent, Utilities, Telephone $29,448 Fundraising $57,376 Produced Programs $35,990 Total $420,542 Insurance $6,460 Office Expenses $49,232 In-Kind Expenses $41,441 Total $420,542 CPB Grants $96,051 Other Grants $10,525 Fundraising $221,116 Payroll Underwriting $29,602 In-Kind Goods & Services $41,441 Special Events $37,918 Total $436,653 KWMR 2017 DONORS Vern Abrams • Deborah Adams • Theresa Ann Emanuels • Kelly Emery and Bruce Nigh • Adams • Myn Adess • Laura and Mark Gayanne Enquist • Kyra Epstein • Daniel and Alderdice • Dolly and Terry Aleshire • Susan Sonja Erickson • Christofer Erin • Mary Jean and Giacomini Allan and Mark Allan • Doris Allen • Josh Espulgar-Rowe • Mary Eubank • Pam Fabry Francine Allen • Hal Allen • Diana Alstad • • Linda Fairchild • Margaret Fall • Far West Fest • Gail Altschuler, M.D. and Steven Hurwitz • Loretta Farley • Jim and Janelle Fazackerley • Alexandra Alznauer • Debra Amerson • Sonja Gail Fechter • Nancy Feehan • Virginia and Will Anderson • Lars Anderson • Tamia and Felch • Elizabeth Fenwick • Ellen Ferguson • Jon Thomas Anderson • Karen Anderson • Fernandez • Larry Ferrara • Teresa Ferrari • Jill Christin Anderson • Lisa Anderson • Julie Field • Marla Fieser • Elizabeth Filmer • Lyons Anderson • John Andrews • Tina Ann • Jeff Filmer and Gregory DeMascio • Susan K. Fisher • Armstrong • Peter Asmus • Georgeanne and Judy and Arnold Fishman • Page Flood • Paul Richard Aston • Jordan Atanat • Scott Flowerman and Georgiana Hernandez • Dylan Atthowe and Patricia Thomas • Lynn Axelrod Flynn • Rob Fogel • Danielle Fogel • Mary Ford • • Teresa and Myra Bacigalupi • Kris Ken Fox • James Fox • Liz Fox • Dianne Caccioli Backenstose • Nancy and Raymond Balberan Fradkin • Anna Francis and Hapi • Mary Frank • • Madeleine Ballard and James Chapman • Martha Jean Frankel • Neshama Franklin • Tom Balogh • Patricia Bannerman • Pawan Alexander Fraser • Janet Friedman • Wendy Bareja • Peter Barnes and Cornelia Durant • Friefeld and Gary Thompson • Mette Frimodt • Sarah Barnes • David Barnett • Hathaway Leah Fritts • Dan and Teri Fruchtman • Craig Barry • William and Patricia Barton • Bob Fruin • Dianne Fruin • Stephanie Furniss and Barton • Johanna and Thomas Baruch • Marshall Johnson • Wynne Furth • Margaret Barbara and Hal Barwood • Lawrence Baskin, Gaffney • Dick Gale • Mike and Kelly Gallagher • Esq. and Kathlynn Capdeville • Suzanne G. Youth DJs “K & L” after their final show. Matthew Gallagher • Jessica Grace and Richard Baty • Ladd Bauer • Bruce Baum • Anne Gallagher • Nancy Hult Ganis and Sid Ganis • Baxter • Ron Baylo