WAMU 88.5 : Support

WAMU 88.5 Membership

July 29, 2011

When you give to WAMU 88.5, your gift directly supports the programs you rely on every day.

WAMU 88.5 is listener-supported public radio. 100 percent of listener contributions are dedicated to pay for the cost of making WAMU 88.5 programs possible. When you give to WAMU 88.5, your tax-deductible membership gift directly supports the award-winning programs upon which you've come to expect and rely, including Morning Edition, All Things Considered, The Diane Rehm Show, The Kojo Nnamdi Show, Car Talk, Hot Jazz Saturday Night, Stained Glass Bluegrass, The Big Broadcast, and many more!

Diane Rehm talks about the people who make public radio possible -- you!

Financial contributions from listeners are WAMU 88.5's largest and most reliable source of support. During fiscal year 2002-2003, membership contributions provided approximately 57% of the station's operating costs. Every dollar you invest provides a positive return immediately whenever you tune to WAMU 88.5, or connect to our audio stream at wamu.org.

Three ways to contribute

Online

Our secure server payment system is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Start here.

By telephone

Please call WAMU 88.5 Member Services weekdays between 9am and 5pm at (202)885-1252.

By mail

Please make your check payable to WAMU 88.5 and mail it to:

American University
WAMU-FM
P.O. Box 17539
Baltimore, MD 21297-1539

Arts & Culture

WAMU 88.5

Art Beat With Lauren Landau, October 7

You can explore one calligrapher's modern take on Korean handwriting, or see two shows that require a little help from the audience.

Food

NPR

Fairfax Schools Pull All-Beef Burgers From Menu, Citing Complaints

Students in a Virginia school system are now eating hamburgers with additives in them, after officials heeded their complaints about the appearance and taste of all-beef burgers it had been serving. The burgers that are now being served include a reported 26 ingredients.

Politics

NPR

No End In Sight: Shutdown Showdown Enters Week Two

Hundreds of thousands of Defense Department civilian employees will go back to work on Monday, but many government operations remain suspended.

Technology

NPR

Wanted: A New Generation of High-Tech Aviation Workers

Millions of U.S. factory jobs have been lost in the past decade. Now, in North Carolina, high school students are being encouraged to think about taking manufacturing jobs. But this isn't the furniture-making or textile labor of generations past — it's a new kind of highly technical work in aviation.