WAMU 88.5 : Support

Join the Leadership Circle

July 29, 2011

As a WAMU Leadership Circle member, you provide significant annual support to WAMU 88.5 and are one of the station's philanthropic leaders. Your investment in WAMU ensures that the station continues to provide the highest quality news, information and entertainment to its listeners. Contributions at the Leadership Circle level demonstrate your commitment to securing the long, healthy, and independent future of public radio. Please note Leadership Circle benefits are extended to two people.

 

The Splendid Table's Lynne Rossetto Kasper Speaks with Pati Jinich

The Splendid Table host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and chef, writer and television host Pati Jinich talk about Mexican cuisine, the history of some popular dishes, and cooking by feeling rather than by sticking closely to a recipe in a book.

Exclusive Leadership Circle Benefits

As a part of the Leadership Circle, you provide crucial unrestricted funds that enable WAMU to bring unequaled local and national programs to our listeners in the DC metropolitan region, as well as distribute our content nationally and internationally. Membership in the Leadership Circle offers substantial personal rewards as well:

To join WAMU's Leadership Circle now, please use our secure online donation forms.

 

Angel $50,000+

  • WAMU 88.5 host attendance at cocktail party or dinner in your home
  • Monthly on-air recognition for one year on The Diane Rehm Show or Kojo Nnamdi Show as an Angel level donor

Visionary $25,000-$49,999

  • Sponsor a live presentation or performance in studio or theater
  • Monthly on-air recognition for one year on The Diane Rehm Show or Kojo Nnamdi Show as a Visionary level donor

Director $10,000-$24,999

  • Private lunch with General Manager & on-air personality
  • Monthly on-air recognition for one year as a Director level donor

Broadcaster $5,000-$9,999

  • Private lunch with the General Manager
  • Invitation to 2 Salon Series Events
  • Monthly on-air recognition for one year as a Broadcast level donor

Producer $2,500-$4,999

  • Small group coffee with General Manager & on-air personality
  • Invitation to 1 Salon Series Event
  • 3 Day Sponsorships

Patron $1,200-$2,499

  • Invitation to Annual Leadership Circle Reception with WAMU 88.5 celebrities
  • Recognition in WAMU 88.5’s Annual Report
  • Behind the scenes tour at WAMU 88.5 studios
  • 1 Day Sponsorship – share a personal message on-air 3 times on a day of your choice

 

Leadership Circle benefits are extended to two people. For the purpose of recognition, anonymity is available to all Leadership Circle donors upon request.

 

For additional information about the Leadership Circle, please contact Melanie McCarty, Major Gifts Officer, at mmccarty@wamu.org202.885.1238. To join WAMU's Leadership Circle now please use the links above to our secure online donation forms, or call or mail in your contribution.

To contact us:
American University/WAMU 88.5
Leadership Circle
Media Center
4400 Massachusetts Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20016-8082

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.