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You can become a valuable part of the WOSU Public Media family with your gift today. Your generosity will benefit the arts, education, and citizenship of the communities we serve. Learn how YOU can help!
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The mission of WOSU Public Media is to enrich lives through programming and community services that educate, inform, entertain, and inspire. Community support is our largest source of unrestricted funding. Your gift today means so much to our central Ohio community.

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How does your support of WOSU impact children’s education?

Our Ready To Learn program annually serves more than 8,800 children throughout 11 Ohio counties. Over 100 Ready To Learn workshops are held throughout the year for more than 1,500 parents, childcare providers and other early childhood professionals. The workshops include the distribution of 3,000 books to help children start their personal libraries.

“I look around my day care and I see things I have learned from WOSU…I see the children I care for using those skills and passing them on to their parents and to other children.” – WOSU Viewer and Home Care Provider

Join WOSU
Please join, renew, or give an additional gift today by using our secure online pledge form. You can also mail or phone WOSU using the contact information below:

WOSU Public Media | 2400 Olentangy River Road | Columbus, OH 43210
Phone: 614.292.9678.


Basic Membership
WOSU wouldn’t be the same without our members. Your membership gifts provide immediate support for the operations of WOSU Public Media including the educational, engaging, and entertaining programs you see on WOSU TV and hear on WOSU NPR News  and WOSU FM, WOSU Classical, as well as the community services such as Ready To Learn.

Benefits of Membership
Membership in WOSU Public Media starts at $45 per year. This includes 12 issues of our monthly magazine, Airfare. Gifts of $75 or more entitle members to receive the WOSU Membercard. The Membercard gives you two-for-one discounts at many area restaurants and attractions. Your discount privileges are valid for an entire year. While gifts of any amount are appreciated, gifts of at least $500 are accorded the courtesies and benefits associated with recognition in the Friends of WOSU.

Radio Day Sponsorships
For a gift of $365—just $1.00 a day—you will receive five on-air mentions on the day of your choice to recognize a birthday, anniversary, or special occasion.

Matching Gifts
You can multiply your support of WOSU with a matching gift from your company or your spouse’s company. For more information, please visit Ohio State’s Corporate Matching Gifts.

Give to WOSU now!
For more information about annual memberships, e-mail: members@wosu.org.

 


Annual Giving Recognition
The principal benefit of the Friends of WOSU recognition is the satisfaction you experience knowing that you are a donor to and full partner with WOSU in its mission to enrich lives through programs and community services that educate, inform, entertain, and inspire. Your annual generosity provides WOSU with an extra measure of strength and flexibility. In return, WOSU, through the Circles of Giving, extends to you certain courtesies and privileges in recognition for the special position you hold within the WOSU family:

LEADERSHIP CIRCLES (All Leadeship Circles include basic membership benefits.)

Network
$500 - $999

  • Special Edition MemberCard

Broadcasters
$1,000 - $2,499

  • 1 Gift AirFare
  • Quarterly Newsletter from WOSU’s General Manager
  • Invitations to select WOSU events

Directors
$2,500 - $4,999

  • Invitation to annual WOSU TV Fall Preview event
  • Invitation to Spring Breakfast with General Manager

Producers
$5,000 - $9,999

  • Annual personal meeting with General Manager

Executive Producers
$10,000+

  • Donation of a WOSU video collection to a school or nonprofit organization in your name

The Presidents Club
The Presidents Club is The Ohio State University’s largest and most prestigious major donor recognition group. Established in 1963 and part of the Office of University Development, The Presidents Club is comprised of more than 8,000 individuals, corporations, businesses and organizations who have made major gifts – undesignated and designated – to Ohio State.

WOSU Public Media is proud to be part of The Ohio State University. As such, your annual support of WOSU may qualify you for in recognition in Ohio State’s Presidents Club. For more information, please call (614) 292-9550 or e-mail presidentsclub@osu.edu.

 


Donor Bill of Rights
Go here to view the Donor Bill of Rights (PDF).

 



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