WAMU 88.5 : Support

Year End Giving Suggestions

July 29, 2011
  • If you've received a mail request from us recently, please make out your check or include your credit card information and return it. All contributions by mail postmarked on or before December 31 are eligible for tax deduction.
  • Make your contribution online.
  • Make a year-end gift of stock, or use stock to fulfill your pledge. Visit our planned giving website, or have your broker contact membership@wamu.org for transfer instructions.
  • If you're a service member or civilian federal employee, designate a contribution to WAMU through your local Combined Federal Campaign. To find our agency code for your campaign, visit our CFC web page.
  • Make a vehicle donation to WAMU by calling toll-free, (866) WAMU-444, or find more information and donate online.
  • Call us at (800) 248-8850 at any time, and we'll take your information over the telephone.
  • Leave us a legacy of support for the future by naming WAMU in your will, life insurance policy, pension/IRA plan, or by other means in your estate planning. You or your advisor may visit our planned giving pages or contact us at (202) 885-1253 for more information. We promise to be discrete.
  • Make it a surprise gift and mail it at your convenience. Our address is WAMU, 4000 Brandywine Street, 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.